Family Studies News & Updates

Recent Articles

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   The Developmental Course of Romantic Relationships

   This multidisciplinary text highlights the development of romantic relationships, from initiation to commitment or demise, by highlighting the historical context, current research and theory, and diversity of patterns. Engagingly written with colorful examples, the authors examine the joy, stress, power-struggles, intimacy, and aggression that characterize these relationships.

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   Purchase Families with Futures, 2nd Edition at a 20% discount!

   Offer Exclusive to our Taylor & Francis Online Readers!

3. 

   Bestselling titles now available in paperback

   Paperbacks Direct are topical books that represent the best of our cutting-edge hardback publishing in a paperback format and price. Check out which of our Paperbacks Direct are publishing this month.

4. 

   How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences

   In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
   
   Click here to read the FREE Special Issue in full.

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   Congratulations to author Michael E. Lamb!

   Michael E. Lamb has won the 2014 G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology and the 2013 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and Law, from the American Psychology-Law Society. 

   For more on the award, click here.

   For a full listing of Michael E. Lamb's publications with Routledge/Psychology Press, click here.  

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   Parenting: Science and Practice - Maternal love protects against ill effects of strict discipline

   A new study of Mexican-American adolescents from our journal Parenting; Science and Practice reports that a loving mother can ameliorate many of the psychological harms associated with an otherwise harsh disciplinary upbringing.

   Read the full report here.
   

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   You can still order from the BPS Annual Conference 2013 Catalog at a 20% discount

   Did you make it to Harrogate to the British Psychological Society Annual Conference 2013? You can still order from this catalog at a 20% discount! Find out how here.

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   Check Out Our Paperbacks Direct: Developmental Psychology and Family Studies Online Catalog

   We have put together this online catalog filled with Paperback Direct Developmental Psychology and Family Studies books published by Psychology Press and Routledge.

9. 

   Handbook of Family Theories: A Content-Based Approach

   Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today’s family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research. Using the 2000 and 2010 decade-in-review issues of the Journal of Marriage and Family as a resource, the book addresses the most important topics impacting family studies research today.

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    Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Second Edition

    This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter structure.