Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Other | 24 March 2009
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Researching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. You can do it seriously or just for fun and a conversation topic, especially at family gatherings. This book will lead you to the vast number of genealogy websites, where family history research that used to take months can now produce exciting results in a weekend. Or you can find out how to do your own detective work at friendly record offices and beautiful parish church cemeteries.
Now in its second edition, Family Therapy: Concepts, Process and Practice has been fully updated to cover recent advances in theory and practice. It offers a critical evaluation of the major schools of family therapy, provides an integrative model for the practice of marital and family therapy, and demonstrates how this model can be used in everyday practice with a range of common child-focused and adult-focused problems. It also provides a thorough, up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness of family therapy and outlines implications for evidence-based practice.
This popular text now includes exercises that can be used by trainers and trainees to foster family therapy skills development.
Added by: djcrystal | Karma: 350.84 | Fiction literature | 21 March 2009
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Family Fiction/314 pagesAlida Armstrong weds a man, Ostrom, only to find out that he is already married -- and a murderer. So she leaves him and eventually drifts to the poorhouse. James Holcroft, a farmer, comes there looking for a housekeeper. Alida refuses the position at first by pointing out that people will talk if two unmarried people of the opposite sex are living together (1916 was, after all, a quainter age).....
The ten novels in this series introduce readers to the adventurous and spirited Barclay family. Follow the family on easy-to-read journeys that feature interesting facts about history, geography, and science. In addition to character development throughout the series each novel contains an element of mystery and suspense. Plus, the stories can be read sequentially or independently. Each novel is 64-pages and includes comprehension questions at the end of each book.
Each chapter in this workbook designed for middle- and high-school students presents well researched, current, readable information on a topic the family, education, entertainment, political life, to name a few.
