Family Psychology

Originally published in 1986, there was a divorce between the immense amount of research taking place in child psychology and the real world of pro...

Originally published in 1992, this volume provided an up-to-date overview of recent research concerning the links between family and peer systems. ...

Family estrangement is larger than conflict and more complicated than betrayal. It is entwined in contradictory beliefs, values, behaviours and goa...

Family estrangement is larger than conflict and more complicated than betrayal. It is entwined in contradictory beliefs, values, behaviours and goa...

While Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) provide promising avenues to support the positive development of all young people, research findin...

While Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) provide promising avenues to support the positive development of all young people, research findin...

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship on how issues of human separateness, or independence, and ...

Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging ...

This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic povert...

This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic povert...

In 1984, a longitudinal study was launched at the University of Notre Dame to evaluate the social and psychological consequences of teenage parenti...

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and theories of family communication and family relationshi...

A book depicting the intimate complicity between attention and identity. . . "You are what you pay attention to."Simone Weil famously stated: "Atte...

In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number. Originally published in 1988,...

This book investigates parental engagement in the transition to school in China and Australia, which were taken as representatives of Eastern and W...

The role of the father in a family and for his children has varied greatly throughout history. However, scientific research into fatherhood began r...

Originally published in 1983, in the two decades prior to publication, specialised neonatal units for the treatment of sick or preterm babies had b...

Offering insight on Mexican American culture, families, and children, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing populatio...

Offering insight on Mexican American culture, families, and children, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing populatio...

Children today are digital natives, growing up in an age where social media and online communication is the norm. This book is an indispensable gui...

A common-sense guide to raising happy, healthy kids - from toddlers to tweens How much screen time should you let your children have? How and when ...

Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging ...

"How do you go from a bunch of cells to something that can think?" This question, asked by the 9-year-old son of one of the authors, speaks to a pu...

The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychologi...

The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychologi...

Marriage has been declared dead by many scholars and the media. Marriage rates are dropping, divorce rates remain high, and marriage no longer enjo...

African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for ...

Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great...

This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children’s attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family ...

'This unique and fascinating book carefully traces aspects of the personality of sextuplets which persist from birth onwards. The way in which the ...

This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children’s attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family ...

This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experience...

"He was my best friend." "I feel like I've lost that one person I could always count on." Siblings know each other in ways friends and other blood ...

Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory abou...