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FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS

Parenting in Childhood and Family Psychology
Transracial Adoption Adolescence Theory, Research,

Real Questions and Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Practice
Real Answers and Applications JOHN W. THOBURN AND
THOMAS L. SEXTON
JANE HOYT-OLIVER, Second Edition | UWE P. GIELEN AND
HOPE HASLAM STRAUGHAN, JAIPAUL L. ROOPNARINE, EDITORS
AND JAYNE E. SCHOOLER

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Students in particular will
“ strategies for parents to help “ Instructors at both the “ benefit from understanding
This book offers insight and
them prepare their children and undergraduate and graduate how systems concepts
created the separate but
levels will find the book
their family for the world as it complementary fields of family
” supplementary material. The therapy and family psychology.
exists. useful as a course text or as
—PsycCRITIQUES , March 1, 2017 writing and editing is welcoming Recommended. ”
to non-academics as well.
An essential resource for transracially ” —Choice, July 1, 2016
adoptive parents and the professionals —PsycCRITIQUES , August 26, 2016 This significant book explains why family
who serve them, this book offers psychology—an entirely different field
practical strategies for helping a This comprehensive reference analyzes from family therapy—provides a cutting-
transracially adopted child through the psychological and anthropological edge description of human behavior in
challenges he or she may face. studies concerning child and adolescent
development across cultures, digging context and as such represents the wave
into often-forgotten topics like street of the future in psychology.
JANE HOYT-OLIVER, MSW, PhD, ACSW, children, child soldiers, and parenting in
is chair of the Department of Social war-torn countries. FEATURES
Work and professor of social work at • Provides a historical overview of
Malone University in Canton, OH. family psychology and makes the
HOPE HASLAM STRAUGHAN, MSW, UWE P. GIELEN, PhD, is founder important differentiation between
PhD, ACSW, is associate dean for and executive director of the Institute family psychology and marriage and
social work, leadership, and policy and for International and Cross-Cultural family therapy
associate professor of social work at Psychology as well as professor
Wheelock College in Boston. emeritus at St. Francis College,
Brooklyn Heights, NY. JOHN W. THOBURN, PhD, ABPP,
JAYNE E. SCHOOLER, MBS, has is professor of clinical psychology at
worked for many years as an adoption JAIPAUL L. ROOPNARINE, PhD, is Jack Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA.
worker and trainer, both nationally and Reilly Professor of Child and Family
internationally. She is the author or Studies, director of the Jack Reilly THOMAS L. SEXTON, PhD, ABPP,
coauthor of six books related to adoption. Institute for Early Childhood and Provider is professor emeritus at Indiana
Education, and adjunct professor in the University.
School of Education, Syracuse University.
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