The Unity-Based Family

The Unity-Based Family
Author: H.B. Danesh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443873748

Getting married, forming a family, and parenting are among the most consequential tasks we undertake in our lives. This book is about creating loving and united marriages, nurturing and happy families, and rearing healthy and successful children. It provides dramatically new concepts and practical strategies on how to achieve these noble objectives in our rapidly changing and challenging world. Based on current scientific research, original conceptual formulations, and intensive clinical studies, The Unity-Based Family is, at once, groundbreaking, enlightening, helpful, and profound.

Perspectives on Family Ministry

Perspectives on Family Ministry
Author: Timothy Paul Jones
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1535932805

Every church is called to some form of family ministry, but this calling requires far more than adding another program to an already-packed schedule. The most effective family ministries refocus every church process to engage parents in discipling their children and to draw family members together instead of pulling them apart. In this second edition, Jones expands the definition of family ministry, and broadens the book's focus to address urban perspectives and family ministry in diverse settings.

Family Evaluation

Family Evaluation
Author: Murray Bowen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393075559

The concepts of Murray Bowen, one of the founders of family therapy and the originator of family systems theory, are brought together here in an integrative fashion. Michael Kerr (who worked with Bowen for many years) and Bowen propose that the enormously complex task of evaluating a clinical family can be orderly when it is grounded in family systems theory. Using family diagrams and case studies, the book is devoted to an elegant explication of Bowen theory, which analyzes multigenerational family relationships and conceptualizes the family as an emotional unit or as a network of interlocking relationships, not only among the family members, but also among biological, psychological, and sociological processes. Bowen’s persistent inquiry and devotion to family observation, in spite of obstacles and frustrations, have resulted in a theory that has radically changed our ways of looking at all behavior.

Leaving a Legacy

Leaving a Legacy
Author: Dan T. Garrett
Publisher: ACU Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780891124924

A sobering statistic, In families where new wealth is created by one generation, 70 percent of that wealth has dissipated by the second generation, and 90 percent is lost by the third generation. It has nothing to do with laxes, economies, or cultures. It is the failure of families to transfer leadership and values to succeeding generations. Book jacket.

Teaching Unity

Teaching Unity
Author: Randie Gottlieb
Publisher: Unityworks LLC
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780982897997

This easy-to-use curriculum package contains a treasure trove of materials focusing on Unity, Diversity, Skin Color and Overcoming Prejudice. The package includes: * Our 300-page teacher's guide with step-by-step lesson plans * Four colorful PowerPoint programs for use with children * Printable student handouts * Craft patterns and instructions * Over 70 full-page color photos designed to accompany the lessons * Detailed plans for organizing a children's performance * Editable event fliers, registration forms and programs * A two-page article for parents and teachers on Overcoming Prejudice These items are available as free downloads with your purchase of the book. (See download instructions on the title page.) The book is filled with fun, hands-on, kid-tested learning activities. It includes warm-ups, demonstrations, readings, crafts, songs, felt lessons, role plays, discussion starters, memory quotes, puzzles, poems, worksheets, research projects, outdoor games, plans for a weeklong Unity Camp, and much more. The lessons are ideal for academic classes, after-school clubs, Saturday or Sunday schools, weekend retreats and summer camps. Teaching Unity supports the new Common Core educational standards across multiple subjects and grade levels, and incorporates Marzano's nine high-yield classroom strategies throughout the book. Its purpose is to help prepare our children to live as citizens in a global society-recognizing our interdependence, respectful of our differences, and working together towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Author: Adele Faber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-04-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 039334326X

The #1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings. Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understanding—much gained from raising their own children—Faber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate fresh thoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals, this edition also includes a new afterword.

Building Unity

Building Unity
Author: Michael ‘Piecez’ Prosserman
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1773056069

Build an organization that is growth-minded, values-based, and innovative using the six steps to “responsible impact.” At age 16, Michael ‘Piecez’ Prosserman, a professional b-boy (breakdancer), completed a school project that would grow to become a hip-hop-inspired mental health charity with global reach. Through a process of continuous discovery and reflection, Prosserman and his team grew UNITY to the point where it benefitted over a quarter of a million young people. In Building Unity, Prosserman breaks down the six steps to discovering “responsible impact” and building an organization that is growth-minded, values-based, and reflective of the needs of its community. Using stories of his own evolution, learning, and growth as a leader over 15 years, Prosserman parallels the creativity found in breakdancing with the innovation needed to build a sustainable non-profit. Six steps to discovering “responsible impact”: Spark is the inspiration, the big “why,” the motivation to wake up and do something. Build is the testing ground to clarify ideas, understand community needs, and challenge assumptions. Trust involves building the culture of your organization, leading by example, and hiring people with dreams. Trust sets the stage for growth by empowering awesome people. Grow is about finding the right size for your organization to create a responsible impact. Evolve is knowing when to step back so others can step forward by building a succession plan that leaves your organization in good hands. Re-Ignite is building from past experience and lighting the next spark within yourself.

The Structure of Political Thought

The Structure of Political Thought
Author: Charles N. R. McCoy
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1412863937

Originally published in 1963, this classic book is a rethinking of the history of Western political philosophy. Charles N. R. McCoy contrasts classical-medieval principles against the “hypotheses” at the root of modern liberalism and modern conservativism. In Part I, “The Classical Christian Tradition from Plato to Aquinas,” the author lays the foundation for a philosophical “structure” capable of producing “constitutional liberty.” Part II, “The Modern Theory of Politics from Machiavelli to Marx,” attempts to show, beginning with Machiavelli, the reversal and destruction of the pre-modern “structure” postulated in Part I. McCoy stresses the great contributions of Aristotle to political thought found in his more familiar Ethics and Politics, but also includes key insights drawn from Metaphysics and Physics. These contributions are developed and perfected, McCoy argues, by Augustine and Aquinas. Two other important features include McCoy’s epistemological insights into Plato’s work that will be new to many readers and the author’s juxtaposition of traditional natural law with “the modernized theory of natural law.” The modern account of autonomous natural law, in McCoy’s view, helps explain the totalitarian direction of key aspects of modern political thought. This classic volume on the origins of modern philosophical thought remains a standard in the field.

Biblical and Theological Foundation of the Family

Biblical and Theological Foundation of the Family
Author: Joseph C. Atkinson
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813221706

This ground-breaking work establishes a solid biblical and theological foundation on which a theology of the family can be constructed. It thus fills a critical lack in the current literature on the family. The wide range of sources, including Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, give this work a genuine ecumenical dimension. Biblical and Theological Foundations of the Family will become indispensable for anyone wanting to engage in serious study of the structure and meaning of the family and its place in the salvific will of God.