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Children of Parents with Mental Illness: Personal and clinical perspectives looks at the insights and experiences of children and adults who have grown up with a parent with mental illness. The personal accounts show the need for professionals to think about all family members in order to meet the needs of the children involved. This highly recommended text is a comprehensive and relevant book for anyone concerned with the mental health and wellbeing of children and families. It is a resource intended for mental health professionals, psychologists and social workers. The personal narratives are complemented by chapters written by clinicians and practitioners. These chapters offer well-researched and current information in the area of the authors’ expertise. Issues covered include: • the genetics of mental illness • talking with children to allay anxiety and give age-appropriate information • assessment of children in crisis • the value of peer support activities • the needs of children placed in out-of-home care • cultural considerations in understanding mental illness • how our mental health care can fail the children of parents with mental illness Some of the contributors have international reputations in their specialist areas, several are participants in the national Children of Parents with Mental Illness (COPMI) Project as members of the reference or consultation groups, and some are adult children of a parent with mental illness. Vicki Cowling, a social worker and psychologist, is the editor of a previous, groundbreaking book in this series, Children of Parents with Mental Illness (ACER Press, 1999). more...

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Questions how class, kinship, gender, household organization, state ideology and education influence and conceal the lives of children in developing countries. more...

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals--desperate for reforms that would save their nation--clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free marriage choice and economic and emotional independence. more...

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A study of communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, this text emphasizes an intergenerational perspective. Layering; to integrate and juxtapose alternative experiences of the social world allows the reader to be situated in the world of female family members as they experience and describe their communication more...

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You're no idiot, of course. You negotiate successfully with your boss for a raise, work out problems with your neighbors, and even manage to talk to the kids about the birds and bees. But when it comes to working out problems in your marriage, you feel like you're speaking a foreign language. Don't give up yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Marriage, Second Edition takes the anxiety out of working on your marriage. Feel confident discussing sex, money, even the in-laws! more...

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