A guide to coping with family cancer, written by two individuals who have experienced it first-hand. The authors lay out practical strategies for coping with overwhelming medical information, frequent invasive procedures, heavy financial burdens, and crippling stress.
From surrogacy and adoption, to transgender pregnancy and finding childcare, parenting as an LGBTQ person is complex. This book is an authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-read guide to parenthood and family building for LGBTQ people.
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse can use this book to begin a recovery journey informed by accurate understandings about complex trauma, and healthy practices rooted in positive psychology.
The Five Pillars of Transformative Resilient Leadership
This book teaches the art and science of transformative resilient leadership, a unique leadership style that aims to identify opportunities in adversity, and uses them to foster resilience and growth.
This book provides science-based facts and practical tools to help readers develop healthy lifestyles to optimize their cognitive abilities, mental health, and physical functioning at any age.
How to Build a Relationship With Your Child to Weather any Storm
As parents, we often worry we're making the wrong decisions. The good news is, having a strong relationship with your child means you can make a parenting blunder from time to time, and exercise grace and patience to try again. Written for parents of children from birth to young adulthood (ages 0-24), this book helps you examine your role as a ......
In this second edition of his guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits, he provides practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers.
Thriving as a Same-Sex Couple in Your Family, Workplace, and Community
In every life context same-sex couples have to make decisions about disclosure, how to respond to prejudice, and how to cope with negative feelings about themselves and their experiences. This book helps couples work together to identify, develop, and use their strengths and skills to successfully navigate these issues and flourish.
Finding a Home for Memories and Emotions After Losing a Loved One
The loss of a loved one can be overwhelming. How do we endure grief? Can we simply forget, or "get over it?" This book explains the science behind bereavement, from emotion to the persistence of memory, and shows readers how to understand and adapt to death as a part of life. Responses to loss are typically associated with negative emotions, ......
