The Intentional Family How To Build Family Ties In Our Modern World,9780201694666

The Intentional Family How To Build Family Ties In Our Modern World

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ISBN13: 9780201694666
ISBN10: 0201694662
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-05-08
Publisher(s): Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Summary

A family therapist offers thoroughly tested strategies to maintain family unity under the pressures of modern life, including improving communication among members, encouraging involvement in family life, and managing conflict. Tour.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Part I THE INTENTIONAL FAMILY 3(16)
CHAPTER 1 The Intentional Family
3(16)
Part II FAMILY RITUALS OF CONNECTION 19(64)
CHAPTER 2 Family Meals
19(15)
CHAPTER 3 Rising and Retiring, Coming and Going
34(15)
CHAPTER 4 Going Out and Going Away
49(15)
CHAPTER 5 Couple Rituals
64(19)
Part III FAMILY RITUALS OF CELEBRATION AND COMMUNITY 83(84)
CHAPTER 6 Special Person Rituals: Birthdays, Mother's and Father's Day
83(14)
CHAPTER 7 Thanksgiving
97(16)
CHAPTER 8 Christmas
113(19)
CHAPTER 9 Community and Religious Rituals
132(15)
CHAPTER 10 Rituals of Passage: Weddings and Funerals
147(20)
Part IV BECOMING A MORE INTENTIONAL FAMILY 167(42)
CHAPTER 11 Intentional Single Parents and Remarried Families
167(21)
CHAPTER 12 Becoming a More Intentional Family
188(21)
Index 209

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