Kevin Zimmerman, a doctoral student of Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University, is doing his dissertation research on commitment in mixed-orientation relationships (non-heterosexual man partnered with a heterosexual woman).
by Marilyn Coleman, Ph.D. and Lawrence Ganong, Ph.D., University of Missouri
Most Americans agree that "adult children should take care of their parents when they get old." But suppose that your parents divorced when you were 10 years old and your mother moved far away. Would that affect how you would feel about helping her? Would that make a difference to you?
by Marie LaHaye, M.S. candidate and graduate research assistant, Project HOME, Family & Developmental Studies Program, Colorado State University
Imagine you have just retired from teaching and are looking forward to retirement and pursuing your own interests. Then, one afternoon, you receive a call from social services that your daughter has been arrested, so her two children are being placed in your care. What will you do?
NREPP is a searchable online registry of more than 200 interventions supporting mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. We connect members of the public to intervention developers so they can learn how to implement these approaches in their communities.
on the Exploration of Cyber-Based Technology in Marriage/Couple and Family Therapy and Supervision
August 23, 2011
The purpose of this University of Nevada - Las Vegas study is to examine the use of cyber-based technology in the context of marriage/couple and family therapy (M/CFT) and supervision (M/CFS).
A full day conference featuring experts, practicioners, researchers, and business leaders who will speak on various components of work-life and flexibility.
Pauline Boss is a pioneer in the subject of family stress and, in the 1970s, she began to notice a type of grief-frozen grief, she calls it-that families experienced when a loss is ambiguous.
