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A lot of Information in this book!.......2005-10-09
The book was well written with a lot of info. Highly recommended.
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This text is the first ever developed as an undergraduate level textbook for Family Life Education. It introduces the theory, principles, and skills necessary to prepare, present, and evaluate family life education programs and workshops. The text is based on the National Council of Family Relations guidelines for undergraduate education, and integrates theory and applications appropriate for established areas of education such as high schools, educational extension services, and community and youth centers. The scope includes sex education, marriage and family relations, parenting, and youth services.
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Recommended text for course work in the family field.......2001-07-01
I have used this new book by Powell & Cassidy -- twice. In an undergraduate class in Family Life Education (University of North Texas), I assigned this text the first semester it was available. I had received a desk copy from Mayfield in fall, just in time for adoption for my Spring 2001 class. Students found the text "readable," which is to say that the authors wisely kept theory short (though evident!) and application at the ready. On all topics, students found practical advice and explanation for working with families.
The second use was in a graduate class (Texas Woman's University) called Teaching Family Sciences. While this text is not a graduate-level textbook, I considered it an essential reading for our course because I fully expect the book to be a top choice for undergraduate courses in FLE for years to come. In other words, it is a good book for graduate students (future instructors) to be exposed to.
In case anyone is not familiar with Powell and Cassidy, they are well regarded in the circle of professionals and educators in the family field. Powell has just concluded service in a national role with the National Council on Family Relations. Cassidy is also associated with NCFR: she directs the certification program (national) of Certified Family Life Educators.
I recommend this book for use with undergraduate _and_ graduate students.
Mary Bold, Ph.D., CFLE
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"At last: a book that melds research on family ties in later life inclusively. Connidis’ book is not simply a research compendium but a theoretical synthesis of value to both scholars and students. Connidis’ clear writing style makes it an excellent choice for students… I recommend this book both to teachers and researchers in the areas of family and aging."
-- JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
Presenting a broad examination of the issues surrounding family ties and aging, this advanced textbook provides an integrated and thorough representation of current research in the field. Whereas books on families and aging have traditionally focused on ties to a spouse and to children and grandchildren, Connidis’s coverage is more extensive and more reflective of contemporary society. She includes groups and relationships that have typically been neglected, such as single, divorced, and childless older people and their family relationships, as well as sibling relationships among the elderly, live-in partnerships not formalized by marriage, and the family ties forged by gays and lesbians over their life course.
Family Ties and Aging weaves the vast range of information we now have about the many facets of family relationships and aging into a critical, comprehensive, and integrated whole.
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Read.......1999-03-13
this book because it is a must for who have no faith of teens being good and believing in change for a better world to live in as well as ones who are like the ones potrayed so they can change making their environment better. Pg 75 is a good example.
It's down to earth emotions behind violence and teenagers........1998-08-24
If you have ever experienced violence in any form, as you read this book you will realize that you are not alone. The thoughts that struck your head when violence presented itself upon your life are guaranteed to be similar to these teenagers. It's down to earth, not toned down in any way. You feel the pain, frustration and anger of these kids. Makes you wonder what you can do for them.
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- Kathleen Chesto has done it again!
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The years following high school graduation to the mid-twenties hold the most serious of all developmental tasks for families. Parents are attempting to move on to a life no longer focused around children, while helping their young adults become established in their own lives. Parents anguish over when it is best to offer insights from experience and when it is best to let young adults learn from their own failures. When does advice become interference? When does a little financial support become financial dependence? When does a safety net become a snare?
The goal of the family is for young adults to succeed in developing their own views and separate identities without emotionally cutting themselves off from their parents. Negotiating this period of family life has become increasingly difficult in our society simply because society is changing so rapidly.
Introducing the idea of a new phase of life called post-adolescence, Kathleen O'Connell Chesto takes a groundbreaking look at young adults emerging in North American families and the influences, within the family and beyond, that have shaped them. Based on her experience of launching three successful young adults and having interviewed over 150 parents and young adults, the author explores the following new issues and challenges facing young adults and their parents today:
a sense of perspective
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a sense of the sacred
Reading this book together, parents and young adults can come to fresh understandings and develop new ways of nurturing their relationship during this time of transition.
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Kathleen Chesto has done it again!.......2002-03-11
I loved it and am buying another copy to circulate among my clients who have teenage kids. Timely, insightful and fun as she's included her own kids to collaborate with her. Pastors should take note so as to understand what your must do to engage more of our young people into becoming churchgoers. The last two chapters are especially beautiful and worthwhile for anyone of any age: A Sense of Forgiveness and A Sense of the Sacred.
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The first edition of Joint Custody and Shared Parenting, published in 1984, set the agenda for law reform and research on the effects of joint custody. The initial volume reported on preliminary data from the small research samples then available and surveyed existing law. Benefiting from the studies that have been conducted since then and from new legal developments, this second edition--completely revised and updated to encompass the wealth of new research, literature, and law--represents the collective knowledge of child developmental experts, therapists, mediators, researchers, economists, and lawyers.
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Comprehnsive review of joint custody by leading authorities.......1997-11-09
This text is the only comprehensive and balanced discussion of the concept of joint custody. Attorneys, researchers, administrators and parents are represented in this collection of essays assembled under the aegis of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and now made available to the general public.
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In the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity.
At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada.
As debates continue about the ability of courts to affect social change, Jason Pierceson argues that this is possible. He claims that the greatest opportunity for reform via the judiciary exists when a judiciary with broad interpretive powers encounters a political culture that endorses a form of liberalism based on broadly conceived individual rights; not a negative set of rights to be held against the state, but a set of rights that recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of every individual.
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- The Basics of Adoption: A Guide for Building Families...
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With about 70,000 domestic and international adoptions each year in the United States and Canada, adoption remains a major means of building families in both countries. Its continued success can be inferred not only from the yearly statistics, but from a report issued in 2003 by the U.S. Census Bureau. To the surprise of many, the report announced the existence of 1.6 million adopted children in the U.S. under the age of eighteen. Written by a former social worker who has placed hundreds of children in foster and adoptive homes and a clinical psychologist who has counseled adopted children and parents, this book offers a comprehensive look at the adoption process by merging the best of social work with the best of psychology. Adoption can be a frustrating and intimidating undertaking for the unprepared. This guide provides prospective adoptive parents with the insider information that they need to navigate the process-and it provides students with the sort of expert opinion that they need to grasp the academic theory they receive in the classroom. Highlights include:
An insider's look at the home study process
Advice on single-parent adoptions
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Advice on parenting adopted children
A look at adoption procedures in both the United States and Canada
Information about international adoptions
A directory of adoption agencies in the United States and Canada
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The Basics of Adoption: A Guide for Building Families..........2007-01-01
"My Favorite Adoption Book!"
My primary interest in this book was because I'm considering adopting from abroad. I've read a number of books on the subject, but they all left me wanting to know more.
I almost didn't buy this book because of a previous review on this site, but I took a chance and I'm glad I did. The reviewer must have had a personal grudge against the authors because she said they were wrong when they wrote that China accepted applications from single men. I went to the state department website on China adoptions to get the truth and, guess what, it's the reviewer who is wrong. According to the US government, China accepts "married couples (one man, one woman) and single heterosexual persons." China doesn't accept gay singles, something the book makes very clear.
This is a terrific book. It has all you'd need to know about international adoptions, with descriptions of the procedures required for each country.
Another thing I like about it is the chapter written especially for Canadians who want to adopt abroad, even in the US. I was totally shocked to learn that the US sends American children to other countries for adoption.
The Only Book You'll Need.......2006-12-20
This is the most comprehensive adoption book I've ever read. Most of
the adoption books I've come across are written by adoptive parents,
journalists, and social activists, well meaning people who have never
placed a child for adoption and have little to offer other than their
own biased opinions.
What I like about this book is the fact that it was written by people
who have professional experience with adoption. There is no substitute
for experience when it comes to adoption, and that is this book's
strength. Allen is a nationally known psychologist, and, according to
the book's introduction, Dickerson placed hundreds of children on
adoption while working for a public adoption agency.
In one volume, this book explains what the home study process is all
about; it gives insider information about the best way to seek approval
from public and private agencies; it offers practical advice for single
adoptive parents; and it lists more than 1,400 adoption agencies in the
U.S. and Canada. I found the section on international adoption
especially helpful.
Save your money.......2006-10-25
This is a very disappointing, innaccurate, and poorly edited book. I found many inaccuracies and outmoded information. To name just two: the statement that adoption from China is open to single men (not the case), or the statement that international adoptions are much more complex than domestic--definitely not always true. The section on homestudies will unnecessarily scare anyone new to adoption. The book describes homestudies where social workers ask about your sex life and never give you a copy of the home study report, which is absolutely ridiculous in the experience of anyone I know who has adopted. Perhaps certain kinds of adoptions require this kind of home study, but it is rare and the book makes it sound like the norm. Since the book's promotion touts the value of its authors' backgrounds in social work and psychology, it's surprising how careless these authors are with the language of adoption, something that is generally treated with precision and sensitivity among the adoption professionals I've encountered. For instance, the chapter on international adoption begins: "...It is clear that international adoptions have become a major alternative for Americans unable to have children of their own..." As any adoptive parent will quickly caution, adopted children are indeed "our own" children. Similarly, the book characterizes different countries according to how large a "supplier" they are of children for adoption, as if these children are commodities for consumption, an offensive way to describe parents building families. The list of adoption agencies in the back is incomplete and does not list websites, though the web is now a critical tool for adoptive parents. I'm sorry to have wasted the money on this book and encourage libraries to select other titles with more accurate and complete information for adoptive parents.
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Mike Brake suggests that subcultures develop in response to social problems which a group experiences collectively, and shows how individuals draw on collective identities to define themselves.
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The Ultimate book of subcultures.......2000-05-24
Brake is the best, the most analytical and most interesting book I have read about subcultures. He takes the approash of symbolic interactionism, theories, and uses it for what it is worth. I would recomend this book to all people interested in you cultures and youthsubcultures
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