Books in the Family Matters series

Written in a lighthearted yet informative style, and including numerous interviews with fathers themselves, this book covers the wide range of issues fathers encounter from conception to teenage traumas.

Shows parents how to tell the difference between the ordinary ups and downs and depression, helping them understand clinical warning signs and the various approaches to treatment. This book offers parents practical guidance on how they can reach out to their children and find professional assistance.

Anorexia and bulimia nervosa are illnesses that affect entire families, not just the afflicted. Yet remarkably few books discuss the impact of these disorders on the entire family. Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa: Guests from Hell tells the story of one familya s struggle with a daughter with an eating disorder.

Perhaps the greatest challenge in being a parent is learning how to manage behavior problems in younger and older children. This work is a guide to understanding and managing child behavior. It offers advice on issues such as: providing positive attention for children; using rewards; communicating effectively; and, empowering teenagers.

Like the other volumes in the Family Matters series, this authoritative new book provides expert advice to ordinary people struggling with everyday challengesA-in this case, the emotional trials of new mothers. Enduring the stresses of pregnancy and giving birth are only half of what it takes to become a parent.

Family Matters is a brand--new series from Wiley highlighting topics that are important to the everyday lives of family members. Each book tackles a common problem or difficult situation, such as teenage problems, new babies or problems in relationships, and provides easily understood advice from authoritative professionals.

Helping teenage children to cope with their own sexuality can be difficult for parents, especially when society and its attitudes towards sexual behaviour have changed so rapidly. This book offers advice on a range of problems from the bodily changes at puberty through to coping with relationships.

Family Matters is a brand--new series from Wiley highlighting topics that are important to the everyday lives of family members. Each book tackles a common problem or difficult situation, such as teenage problems, new babies or problems in relationships, and provides easily understood advice from authoritative professionals.