Family Relationships

Take a moment to think about family dynamics, and how you can understand, build upon, or change family (and other!) relationships.

Updated November 21, 2024
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Drama free : a guide to managing unhealthy family relationships
Tawwab, Nedra Glover
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles--and living your life, your way.     Every family has a story. For some of us, our...

362.82 Tawwab 2023

Freedom from family dysfunction : a guide to healing families battling addiction or mental illness
Perlmutter, Kenneth
Paper Book
The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose. Parents complain about their children's screen addiction, law enforcement decries the flood of fentanyl, scores of Americans overdose and die daily, and teen alcohol poisoning and marijuana-induced psychosis rates continue to rise....

616.8915 Perlmutter 2019

The big disconnect : protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age
Steiner-Adair, Catherine
Paper Book
Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use...

649.1 St35 2013

The racism of people who love you : essays on mixed race belonging
Mehta, Samira K.
Paper Book
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory,...

306.845 Mehta 2023

The school of hard talks : how to have real conversations with your (almost grown) kids
Kline, Emily (Clinical psychologist)
Paper Book
"Think you can 'create' the perfect child? Dream on! Then stop dreaming and start reading this book. We can't control our kids' life trajectories, but we can create relationships with them that are genuine, warm, and encouraging. Here's your road map!" -Lenore Skenazy, president of...

155.5 Kline 2023

When a loved one has dementia : a comforting companion for family and friends
Helmink, Eveline
Paper Book
Dementia enters life through the back door, slipping in unnoticed. Once it's there, it can make you feel powerless, angry, and unsure how to move forward. When her mother developed dementia, Eveline Helmink wasn't prepared. As she learned firsthand, when your loved one is suffering, it takes a...

616.831 Helmink 2023

Change your brain every day : simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships
Amen, Daniel G.
Paper Book
Wall Street JournalandPublishers Weeklybestseller366 Days to a Better Brain, Mind, and Life!In Change Your Brain Every Daypsychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands...

612.82 Amen 2023

When violence begins at home : a comprehensive guide to understanding and ending domestic abuse
Paper Book
Addresses the needs of various audiences, including battered women, teenaged victims of dating violence, educators, community leaders, and the batterers themselves.

362.8292 W694 2006

Codependent no more : how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself
Beattie, Melody
Paper Book
The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your life. Melody Beattie's compassionate and insightful look into codependency--the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping...

616.86 Beattie 2022

Hormonal : the hidden intelligence of hormones : how they drive desire, shape relationships, influence our choices, and make us wiser
Haselton, Martie Gail
Paper Book
The hidden intelligence of hormones and their role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially. Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to...

613.0424 Haselton 2018

Ma and me : a memoir
Reang, Putsata
Paper Book
Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award. Finalist for the 2023 Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lambda Literary Award "A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope." --Publishers Weekly...

306.7663 Reang Reang 2022


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