{"product_id":"family-troubles-9781447304432","title":"Family Troubles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how troubles feature in normal families, and how the normal features in troubled families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wealth of insightful essasys, the book is filled with careful reflection of hte process of change...in the everyday lives of children and young people.\" British Journal of Social Work \"Whether you currently work within social work, health, education or another agency, there is something for everyone within this book.\" Child Abuse Review \"This brilliant book provides a wealth of insights that make it essential reading for academics and students across the social sciences, and for policy makers and practitioners.\" Harry Ferguson, Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper and Val Gillies Part 1: Approaching Family Troubles? Contexts and Methodologies Cultural context, families and troubles ~ Jill Korbin Representing family troubles through the 20th century ~ Janet Fink The role of science in understanding family troubles ~ Michael Rutter Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide ~ Ara Francis Part 2: Whose Trouble? Contested Definitions and Practices Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts ~ Harriet Clarke and Lindsay O’Dell Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability ~ Ara Francis Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses ~ Helen Lomax Children’s non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue? ~ Geraldine Brady Revealing the lived reality of kinship care through children and young people’s narratives: “It’s not all nice, it’s not all easy-going, it’s a difficult journey to go on” ~ Karin Cooper Part 3: The Normal, the Troubling and the Harmful? Troubling loss? Children’s experiences of major disruptions in family life ~ Lynn Jamieson and Gill Highet The permeating presence of past domestic and familial violence: “So like I’d never let anyone hit me but I’ve hit them, and I shouldn’t have done” ~ Dawn Mannay Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse ~ Sarah Wilson The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity ~ Helen Lucey Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness ~ Hayley Davies Part 4: Troubles and transitions across space and culture ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children’s views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities ~ Umut Erel Colombian families dealing with parents’ international migration ~ Maria Claudia Duque-Páramo Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK ~ Elaine Chase and June Statham Young people’s caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV ~ Ruth Evans Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England ~ Peter Keogh, Anne Kazimirski, Susan Purdon and Ruth Maisey Part 5: Working with Families European perspectives on parenting and family support ~ Janet Boddy What supports resilient coping among family members? A systemic practitioner’s perspective ~ Arlene Vetere Troubled and troublesome teens: mothers’ and professionals’ understandings of parenting teenagers and teenage troubles ~ Harriet Churchill and Karen Clarke Contested family practices and moral reasoning: updating concepts for working with family-related social problems ~ Hannele Forsberg Working with fathers: risk or resource? ~ Brid Featherstone What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy","brand":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408483754327,"sku":"9781447304432","price":77.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447304432.jpg?v=1730503068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/family-troubles-9781447304432","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}