Examines the role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United States In 1908 the United States and Japan agreed to limit the migration of Japanese laborers to the US. The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1908 ushered in an era of exclusion for the Japanese, but an exception was made for Japanese women ......
In this third edition, Judith Jordan explores the history, theory, and practice of relationship-centered, culturally oriented psychotherapy as a tool for building meaningful connections in a world of increasing isolation. This essential primer is ideal for students and practitioners alike, guiding them through the ins and outs of ......
More Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology features brand new expert-informed resources for teachers and coaches. No two positive psychology courses are the same, nor is there one best way to teach the content that is critical to this rapidly growing course. This practical, flexible workbook for instructors and coaches teaching positive ......
Critical Theory and Marital Quarrels: Dynamics of Passionate Speech analyzes the pneumatics of conflict through a discursive archeology of police reports, court proceedings, psychiatric cases, therapy sessions, eighteenth-century relationship advice literature, and the nineteenth-century fiction. Todor Hristov argues that in order to extract ......
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) helps clinicians and researchers make objective assessments of relationship patterns, and enables clients to improve their social interactions. SASB can help identify connections between clients' current symptoms, and their current and historical relationship patterns. The SASB coding system serves ......
How understanding the evolution of the human brain can help you re-connect with the world
Our civilisation relies on the human capacity to connect and cooperate. Yet this drive accentuates group frictions, worsened by overcrowding and media. Mark advocates reconnecting to overcome divisions, exploring brain evolution and practical connection. He envisions leveraging this drive to foster multicultural societies for global betterment.
How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality
Explores the reach of the law into our most personal and private romantic lives The Architecture of Desire examines how the law influences our most personal and private choices-who we desire and choose as intimate partners-and explores the psychological, economic, and social effects of these choices. Romantic preferences, as shaped by law, ......
An Empirical Guide for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope
This second edition, now in paperback, updates and expands the pioneering work of Enright and Fitzgibbons, with new case studies, new empirical evaluation, modern philosophical roots of forgiveness therapy, and new measurement techniques. Benefitting from over 13 years of new research, Forgiveness Therapy features: new case studies; new ......
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork at Fairfax County, Virginia, and Daechi-dong, Seoul, Korea, Korean Kirogi Families explores the dynamics of emplaced transnational families through analyses of the categories of social capital, sense of place, sense of belonging, and mothering among so-called "Korean kirogi families." A Korean kirogi ......
