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Why Can't We Get Along?: Healing Adult Sibling Relationships
: :Praise for Peter Goldenthal s previous books: '[Dr. Goldenthal s] techniques...are presented with insight and clarity. This is a unique and valuable book.' --William B. Carey, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 'Peter Goldenthal gives us new insights.... This is a must-read book.' --Myrna Shure, Ph.D., author of Raising a Thinking Child Hasn t it gone on long enough the rivalry, the jealousy, the pent-up anger, and the grudges rooted in the past? In this book, renowned author and family psychologist Peter Goldenthal offers proven ...
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Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution
: :Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of the mediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change. Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places of dispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamental change is the desired result. It means opening wounds and looking beneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, and exploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy, domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach a deeper level of transformational change. ...
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Mediation Career Guide: A Strategic Approach to Building a Successful Practice
: :In this definitive guide, Forrest Mosten--an internationally recognized mediation expert--helps would-be mediators answer the critical question 'Do I have the values, skills, personality, and commitment necessary to mediate?' A comprehensive resource, the book also explores a wealth of timely topics including the need to establish standards of the profession, how to maintain confidentiality, the pros and cons of co-mediation, and the place of mediation in the process of court and law reform. Straightforward and reader-friendly, the Mediation Career Guide is filled with practice tips, self-surveys, diagrams, reading resources, a list ...
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Home Improvements: The Chapman Guide to Negotiating Change with Your Spouse (Chapman Guides)
: :Those annoying habits can be damaging to a relationship over time. There's hope for change. Dr. Chapman provides a do-it-yourself approach to helping couples learn to overcome bad habits. By learning and using Dr. Chapman's simple 3-step process (admitting and asking forgiveness for your own past failures; discovering and speaking your spouse's love language; and learning the proper time, place, and way to request behavioral change), couples will be able to successfully negotiate change without resorting to arguing or manipulation.
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Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You? (Workbook, Second Edition)
: :A companion to the best-selling book of the same title, this popular, newly revised workbook helps couples create a deeply satisfying, more intimate relationship. Focusing on the ever-present dynamic of conflict--and the process of working through it--the authors guide couples in getting to the root of recurring disagreements and destructive behaviors. Self-assessment exercises and couple activities help readers recognize unloving responses, move past fear, identify self-protective and negative beliefs, break down power struggles, and reach out in forgiveness. The principles outlined in this powerful, easy-to-use workbook have helped thousands of ...
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After the Fight: Using Your Disagreements to Build a Stronger Relationship
: :What do partners do after a fight? If they're like most people, they apologize: 'I'm sorry. I had a bad day and I took it out on you.' Or, they wake up the next morning and pretend that nothing happened, hoping their partner will do the same. In neither case do they talk about the fight. They're too afraid that doing so will simply rekindle it--and they're right; it probably would. But since they don't talk about the fight, nothing ever really gets resolved.Daniel B. Wile, author of Couples Therapy ...
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Remarried with Children: Ten Secrets for Successfully Blending and Extending Your Family
: :It's the most daunting task many parents will ever face: bringing two growing families together into one brand new marriage. But even though statistics show that most remarriages are at high risk--especially when there are kids involved--more and more people are learning how to make them work and more and more kids are coming out of them with their psyches and souls intact. This honest and hopeful book looks at those successes--and at some failures--to show what they have in common: ten essential secrets that are at the heart of ...
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Dobson 2-in-1: Love Must Be Tough/straight Talk
: :This new two-in-one volume contains the classic James Dobson bestsellers Love Must Be Tough and Straight Talk-each loaded with practical, straightforward advice for relationship building. In Love Must Be Tough, Dr. Dobson attacks the root problem of most marital crises-a lack of respect-offering practical help for rekindling mutual respect and mature love. Straight Talk stakes a clear path through the confusion of men's roles, teaching men how to build stable, loving and satisfying relationships with their wives and children. Thousands of lives have been dramatically changed though the principles presented ...
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Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems
: :From the acclaimed authors of Best Friends, Worst Enemies, here is the perfect companion volume: a practical, how-to guide for parents to help their children navigate the sometimes harsh terrain of social life at school, on the playground, and in the neighborhood.Almost everyone agrees (and remembers): Childhood can be a traumatic time. Kids frequently face peer rejection, name-calling, bullying, after-school fights, esteem-crushing cliques, and malicious exclusion by the popular kids. And parents often feel powerless to console their children. Now help is here. Mom, They’re Teasing Me is a specific, ...
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10 Days to a Bully-Proof Child: The Proven Program to Build Confidence and Stop Bullies for Good
: :Bully-Proof Your Child offers strategies on the latest forms of bullying, like cyber-bullying via instant message and networking sites. With anecdotes throughout, it book also teaches how to successfully approach another parent or a school about bullying.
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