Family Life Now: A Conversation About Marriages, Families, and Relationships (Book Alone) (MyFamilyLab Series) - Hardcover

Welch, Kelly J.

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9780205398645: Family Life Now: A Conversation About Marriages, Families, and Relationships (Book Alone) (MyFamilyLab Series)

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ISBN 10: 0205398642 ISBN 13: 9780205398645

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

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Family Life Now: A Conversation About Marriages, Families, and Relationships (MyFamilyLab Series) by Welch, Kelly J. [Allyn & Bacon, 2007] ( Hardcover ) [Hardcover]

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Family Life Now: A Conversation About Marriages, Families, and Relationships, 1/E

Kelly Welch, Kansas State University
ISBN: 0205398642

A candid and scholarly conversation about families and family life.

We are all products of our families of origin. How that influences who we are and who we become is a central theme woven throughout Family Life Now. This text combines the personal touch and scholarly expertise of an outstanding teacher to explore the ways that family members and intimate partners interact, and how families adapt to stresses, changes and everyday challenges.

About the Cover – “Family Affair” by Julie Frith

Virginia Satir (1917-1988), a pioneer in the field of family therapy, used the metaphor of a mobile to explain that families are systems—sets of interconnected parts. When one element of a mobile is disrupted, it affects the balance and movement of the rest of the structure. In family life, disruption and change is inevitable. Each event—marriage and divorce; birth and death; a new job or home; loss of love or physical health; the transition from one life stage to another--sets off a response that will affect every member within the family system.

About the Author

Kelly Welch teaches in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University. She is a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE), and her teaching background includes human development and sexuality, as well as marriage and family. For over 10 years, she has consistently taught the Family Relationships course and the introductory human growth and development course.

She is a recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, and nominations for the United States Professor of the Year and the United States Distance Educator of the Year. These teaching awards and nominations recognize her distinct, innovative, and energetic teaching style– a style students say puts them “on the edge of their seats.”

About the Author:

Kelly Shea Welch teaches in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University. A native of Kansas, she received her Ph.D. in Family Studies at Kansas State University after working for many years as a doula, a professional birth attendant who provides emotional, physical, and informational support to the childbearing woman and her partner. Still today her research interests marry women’s health issues with family studies. Over the past 10 years, she has taught the large, introductory human growth and development course which enrolls a little more than 1,000 students per semester. The author of the interactive learning CD Roms, Development: Journey of a Lifetime, and Development: Journey through Childhood and Adolescence, she recognizes and emphasizes the value of active and learner-centered pedagogy that allows students to organize, integrate, and generate knowledge. In addition to teaching the human growth and development course, she also teaches the Family Relationships class that enrolls approximately 300 students each semester. She is a recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, and nominations for the United States Professor of the Year and the United States Distance Educator of the Year. These teaching awards and nominations recognize her distinct, innovative, and energetic teaching style—students consistently indicate that this unique teaching style puts them “on the edge” of their seats and holds their attention.

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