Now in the Ninth Edition, Jerry Bigner’s Parent-Child Relations, the classic resource for child development professionals and parents themselves, has undergone a thorough revision anchored by the vision of the late Dr. Bigner and executed by new co-author, Clara Gerhardt.Maintaining its fundamental structure and unique approach, the text uses family systems and systemic family development theory as a framework to explore how parent-child relations change in tandem with developmental changes occurring with children, adults, and the wider family system. Thoughtful updates and revisions were done to increase the effectiveness and currency of the text. The text continues to provide strong emphasis on various theoretical and practical models pertaining to parenting. For decades now, this classic text has prepared countless teachers and practitioners by its proven and practical approach, utilizing family systems and systemic family development theory to explore how parent-child relations change in tandem with developmental changes occurring with children, adults, and the wider family system. The most comprehensive and current resource available to students as they prepare for working with parents and families, and for their roles as parents themselves, this best-selling resource carries on the essential message of its originator, Dr. Jerry Bigner, and will continue to nurture future family scholars and practitioners for years to come.

Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting

Parenting & Relationships

Bigner, Jerry

Gerhardt, Clara

Parenting

Pearson

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Transitioning Youth: A Manual for Mental Health Practitioners Working with Transsexual Youth

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Matzelle, Robert

Mental Health

Routledge

Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples

Use new knowledge of the LGBT culture to ably counsel same-sex couples! Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples provides psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors with an overview of the array of treatment issues they may face when working with couples from the LGBT community. This book highlights the experiences of therapists who have encountered concerns particular to LGBT clientsespecially those in intimate relationships. This intriguing resource covers clinical issues, sex therapy, special situations, and training issues for helping therapists successfully counsel same-sex couples. Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples explores the therapist’s role in working through universal issues in couples therapysuch as communication problems, infidelity, and decision-makingwith a focus on how therapy should differ for same-sex couples. This important guide also identifies which problems are unique to couples as an aspect of their sexual orientation, including gender role socialization and societal oppression. With this book, you will be able provide appropriate therapy without over- or under-attributing a couple’s problems to their LGBT status. This book shows how experienced therapists have developed methods for working with: 
<ul>
<li> gay and lesbian parents </li>
<li> heterosexual spouses and ex-spouses </li>
<li> couples in HIV serodiscordant relationships </li>
<li> lesbian bed death </li>
<li> couple and family dynamics supporting transgender and sexual reassignment issues </li>
<li> and more! </li>
</ul> Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples contains several features for you to utilize in your own practice, including the Sexual Orientation Matrix for Supervision (SOMS) to assist supervisors and trainers in preparing supervisees to work with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. The book also offers guidelines for heterosexual therapists who plan to work with same-sex couples and how to overcome any residual homophobia or heterosexual guilt. Lastly, this essential sourcebook reviews several articles, book chapters, books, and Web sites that are relevant to same-sex couples and the therapists who work with them.

Wetchler, Joseph L.

A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers

A deeply personal account of the trials and tribulations of the surrogacy journey! Surrogacy’s been coldly and unjustifiably called baby buying and baby selling and many states have banned it. But those insensitive terms do not tell the inspiring tale of a couple fiercely wanting to become parents. A Gay Couple’s Experience with Surrogacy: Intended Fathers is the moving true story of a gay couple’s decision to have their child through a surrogate mother. With humor and emotion, the author traces their intense experience from the initial decision to have a child through surrogacy on through the entire pregnancy and birth. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy chronicles this couple’s no-holds-barred account of the emotional toll, the legal matters, the financial concerns, and the ultimate fulfillment of parenting a child. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy reveals the author’s answers to these questions: 
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<li> why surrogacy over adoption? 
</li>
<li> which type of surrogacytraditional or gestational? 
</li>
<li> what were the issues when choosing a surrogate? 
</li>
<li> how much does surrogacy cost? 
</li>
<li> what living expenses are included in the cost? 
</li>
<li> what are the emotional and financial reasons that surrogates choose to bear another’s child? 
</li>
<li> what are the pitfalls in choosing surrogacy? 
</li>
<li> what are the legal issueswhat to beware and what to consider 
</li>
</ul>An excerpt: Before I knew it, I was writing an ad of my own, and I actually posted it. David, of course, had no idea what I was up to. The ad read: We’re a gay couple in New York that just celebrated our fourteenth anniversary and we’ve decided to extend our family. We’re looking for someone close by and even have a separate apartment available if needed. Nice, huh? Could it be just a little bit more. . . vague? Could my ad have lacked a little more personality? Sure, have our baby and move right in while you’re doing it! Who the hell would respond to that? I wasn’t even sure after reading it myself that it made any sense. But what should I have said? What could I have said? I scrambled to find a way to delete it, but couldn’t. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy is a touching memoir that reveals the challenges that face gay and lesbian couples who may be considering either adoption or surrogacy.

Menichiello, Michael

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Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting

Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting, with Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (What's New in Early Childhood Education)

Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting

Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting -- Pearson eText

Transitioning Youth: A Manual for Mental Health Practitioners Working with Transsexual Youth

Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples

Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples

A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers

A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers