Lesbian Families Challenges And Means Of Resiliency

Author : Anne M. Prouty Lyness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781136452673

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Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency by Anne M. Prouty Lyness Pdf

An inside look at the unique challenges of the lesbian experience Lesbian Families’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy is a unique collection of interdisciplinary feminist examinations of the resiliency of lesbian couples and families. Leading feminist researchers and clinicians discuss parenting within lesbian families, with a focus on personal resiliency. These thought-provoking and insightful articles address the challenges of having and raising children in a society that struggles to accept alternative family structures. Lesbian Families’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency examines a wide range of issues facing lesbian couples, with a special focus on parenting and couple violence. The book’s contributors examine the unique challenges of lesbian and gay parenting; adversities facing lesbian parents and the coping methods they employ; violence among lesbian couples and the lesbian community’s response to domestic violence; and the application of feminist theory to validate, strengthen, and promote resiliency in lesbian couples. The book also includes interviews with single or partnered lesbians who had children through adoption, artificial insemination, or a previous relationship. Topics examined in Lesbian Families’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency include: parenting artificial insemination lesbian family therapy family law couple violence lesbian community feminist research feminist couple therapy and much more Lesbian Families’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency is a vital professional aid for psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors. It’s an equally valuable resource for academics working in family studies, women’s studies, queer studies, gender studies, and sociology.

Author : Jerry J. Bigner,Joseph L. Wetchler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415883597

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Handbook of LGBT-affirmative Couple and Family Therapy by Jerry J. Bigner,Joseph L. Wetchler Pdf

Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy provides a comprehensive and specific overview, spanning thirty chapters, of the diverse and complex issues involved in LGBT couple and family therapy.

Author : Haque, Adnan ul
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781668465455

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Handbook of Research on Dissecting and Dismantling Occupational Stress in Modern Organizations by Haque, Adnan ul Pdf

Occupational stress is a growing area of interest as ensuring employees are cared for physically and emotionally in the workplace has become vital across industries. To fully understand the various forms and factors of occupational stress, further study is required in order to provide the best work environment for employees. The Handbook of Research on Dissecting and Dismantling Occupational Stress in Modern Organizations explores key concepts of occupational stress in modern organizations across the globe such as how stress is felt and dealt with by professionals from various sectors operating in the globalized environment. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the magnitude and reasons behind the varying impacts of stressors within modern organizations. Covering topics such as health capital, turnover intentions, and work-family conflict, this reference work is an excellent resource for business leaders, managers, human resource managers, librarians, government officials, occupational therapists, researchers, academicians, scholars, educators, and students.

Author : D Riedel D Bowers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765708106

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Play Therapy with Families by D Riedel D Bowers Pdf

Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically. It contains a unique approach for helping families, outlining an in-depth review of play and its relevancy to healing for children and families, putting forth a brand new Collaborative Play Therapy Model. The application to healing and psychotherapy follows, outlining the directive and non-directive orientations to healing, models that are current in the literature, and selected family-based play therapy models. An extensive overview of family therapy and associated models is presented as a foundation for the reader in order to relate play and family therapy from an academic point of view. This provides the theoretical background for the chapters on play therapy approaches that follow. Family play therapy addresses the inclusion of the family with techniques that contribute to healing. Narrative play therapy is presented with an in depth historical account and the phases of the narrative approach. Filial and theraplay models of play therapy are presented with an account of their development and focus on the phases of intervention for children and families. The book concludes with a sandtray approach to working with adoptive families, rounding out this collection’s presentation of current and researched models of play therapy.

Author : Lynn H. Turner,Richard West
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483324029

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The SAGE Handbook of Family Communication by Lynn H. Turner,Richard West Pdf

A thorough exploration of the critical topics and issues facing family communication researchers today The Sage Handbook of Family Communication provides a comprehensive examination of family communication theory and research. Chapters by leading scholars in family communication expand the definition of family, address recent shifts in culture, and cover important new topics, including families in crisis, families and governmental policies, social media, and extended families. The combination of groundbreaking theories, research methods, and reviews of foundational and emerging research in family communication make this an invaluable resource that explores the critical topics and issues facing family communication researchers today.

Author : Linda L. Lindsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317348085

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Gender Roles by Linda L. Lindsey Pdf

Offers a sociological perspective of gender that can be applied to our lives. Focusing on the most recent research and theory–both in the U.S. and globally–Gender Roles, 6e provides an in-depth, survey and analysis of modern gender roles and issues from a sociological perspective. The text integrates insights and research from other disciplines such as biology, psychology, anthropology, and history to help build more robust theories of gender roles.

Author : Dorothy S. Becvar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461439172

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Handbook of Family Resilience by Dorothy S. Becvar Pdf

Resilience is a topic that is currently receiving increased attention. In general, resilience refers to the capacity of those who, even under the most stressful circumstances, are able to cope, to rebound, and to go on and thrive. Resilient families are able to regain their balance following crises that arise as a function of either nature or nurture, and to continue to encourage and support their members as they deal with the necessary requirements for accommodation, adaptation and, ultimately, healthy survival. Handbook of Family Resilience provides a broad body of knowledge regarding the traits and patterns found to characterize resilient individuals and well-functioning families, including those with diverse structures, various ethnic backgrounds and a variety of non-traditional forms. This Handbook brings together a variety of perspectives aimed at understanding and helping to facilitate resilience in families relative to a full range of challenges.

Author : Nancy A. Orel,Christine A. Fruhauf
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433817632

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The Lives of LGBT Older Adults by Nancy A. Orel,Christine A. Fruhauf Pdf

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) older adults have unique and varying physical and mental health needs. Yet their experiences have often been ignored in gerontological and LGBT studies. In this important and timely volume, Orel and Fruhauf bring together crucial research from leading experts in the field to shed light on the unique challenges facing this oft-overlooked but growing population. This book uses a life course perspective to investigate how LGBT older adults have been shaped by social stigma and systematic discrimination. Although many of their experiences are similar to those of younger LGBT individuals, LGBT elders grew up in a particularly oppressive time, which continues to impact their well-being. However, these individuals have also developed coping mechanisms to adapt to stigma, discrimination, and the challenges of aging. Thus, the book explores not only the challenges and needs of this population but also their strengths and resilience. The intersection of cultural factors and personal attributes is highlighted.

Author : Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Janet M Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317790518

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Lesbian Step Families by Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Janet M Wright Pdf

Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general. In Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love, you’ll explore in detail the different kinds of step relationships that are developed and what factors may lead to the different types of step mothering in lesbian step families. The book helps you understand these relationships and parent roles through in-depth discussions of: how a step mother and legal mother who live together negotiate and organize parenting and homemaking tasks how members of lesbian step families define and create the step mother role strategies family members use to define and cope with oppression how sexism is transmitted within the family and how mothering may limit and/or contribute to female liberation the opinions and viewpoints of the children of these families The findings in Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love challenge traditional views of mothering and fathering as gender and biologically based activities; they indicate that lesbian step families model gender flexibility and that the mothers and step mothers share parenting--both traditional mothering and fathering--tasks. This allows the biological mother some freedom from motherhood as well as support in it. With insight such as this, you will be prepared to help a client, a loved one, or yourself develop and maintain healthy family relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781136837425

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Handbook of Clinical Issues in Couple Therapy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Feminism
ISBN : MINN:31951P01043160A

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Feminist Periodicals by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joan Laird
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0231102534

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Lesbians and Lesbian Families by Joan Laird Pdf

This cutting-edge collection of articles examines the sociocultural context of the lives of lesbians and lesbian families and reveals how new insights about lesbian identities, experiences, and relationships can be integrated into clinical theory and practice. A family therapist, Joan Laird presents several clinical approaches to working with lesbians as individuals and in couple and parenting relationships and to viewing sexual orientation in its full complexity of race, class, gender, and cultural identity. Rich with clinical case studies and research on the everyday lives of lesbian families, this book includes chapters on the strategic language of self-disclosure, the family lives of lesbian mothers, and lesbian mothers who "come out" to their adolescent children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180418

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Skerrett,Karen Fergus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401799096

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Couple Resilience by Karen Skerrett,Karen Fergus Pdf

This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational alliance that offers an opportunity and challenge to go beyond the self - to develop as individuals and as a relationship. The contributors to this volume represent a range of perspectives that integrate conventional relationship science and innovative empirical and theoretical work on the importance of meaning-making, narrative construction, intersubjectivity, forgiveness, and positive emotion in couple life. The volume also offers a unique anchor point - ‘We-ness’ as it relates to the intersection between shared, personal identity and well-being. Under-examined relational contexts such as resilience among LGBT partners and sexual resilience during illness adds further refinement of thought and application.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190251482

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Social Workers' Desk Reference by Anonim Pdf

People all over the world are confronted by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services on a daily basis. Due to these issues, there is a need for social workers who have access to relevant and timely scholarly materials in order to meet the needs of those facing these issues. The social, psychological, and biological factors resulting from these issues determine the level of a person's mental health at any given point in time and it is necessary for social workers to continue to evolve and develop to the new faces and challenges of the times in order to adequately understand the effects of these issues. In the first and second editions of the Social Workers' Desk Reference, the changes that were occurring in social work practice, education, and research were highlighted and focused upon. This third edition continues in the same tradition and continues to respond to the changes occurring in society and how they are impacting the education, research, and practice of social work as a whole. With 159 chapters collaboratively written by luminaries in the profession, this third edition serves as a comprehensive guide to social work practice by providing the most recent conceptual knowledge and empirical evidence to aid in the understanding of the rapidly changing field of social work. Each chapter is short and contains practical information in addition to websites and updated references. Social work practitioners, educators, students, and other allied professionals can utilize the Social Workers' Desk Reference to gain interdisciplinary and interprofessional education, practice, and research.