Helping And Healing Our Families: Principles And Practices Inspired By "The Family: A Proclamation to the World"

This fall marks the tenth anniversary since President Gordon B. Hinckley introduced and read The Family: A Proclamation to the World in the General Relief Society Meeting on September 23, 1995. In an effort to help families and Latter-day Saints live and better understand the teachings of this historic document, Deseret Book is pleased to publish the new book Helping and Healing Our Families in conjunction with the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Among the dozens of timely and invaluable chapters and essays, readers will enjoy the following: "The Covenant of Marriage" by Daniel K. Judd and Ann N. Madsen "Joys and Challenges of Marrying Later in Life" by Camille Fronk "Keeping Marriage Relationships Strong Through the Years" by Ed and Patricia P. Pinegar "Emotional and Psychologicial Infidelity" by James M. Harper "When Children Choose a Different Path" by Elaine Walton and Robert L. Millet "Mental Illness in the Family" by Elder Alexander B. Morrison

About Craig H. Hart

From the time he was a university student—taking a child development class to learn something about the baby he and his wife, Kerstine, had just had—until now, Professor Craig H. Hart has been studying children, parents, and families from both an academic and a personal perspective. His research has included time spent systematically observing children interact with peers on numerous playgrounds, including the BYU Child and Family Studies Laboratory (a preschool). He has published numerous studies from parent-child interaction data gathered in China, Russia, Australia, Japan, and various parts of the United States. An internationally recognized scholar and the father of four children, Professor Hart is chair of Marriage, Family, and Human Development at Brigham Young University.

About Lloyd D. Newell

Lloyd D. Newell, assistant professor of Church history and doctrine, has been the announcer for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word" for more than a decade

About Elaine Walton

Elaine Walton, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Brigham Young University, where she also develops and evaluates family-strengthening programs in the child welfare system.

About David C. Dollahite

David C. Dollahite, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Marriage, Family, and Human Development at Brigham Young University. He and his wife, Mary, are the parents of seven children.