Description
About the Author
Suzanne Degges-White, PhD, LPC, NCC, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. She is a licensed counselor and her research interests include intimate relationships including family relationships and friendship. She is the author of Friends Forever: How Girls and Women Forge Lasting Relationships; Toxic Friendships: Knowing the Rules and Dealing with the Friends who Break Them; and Mothers and Daughters: Living, Loving, and Learning over a Lifetime. She is a featured blogger on Psychology Today website (www.psychologytoday.com/blog/lifetime-connections) and has edited six books on counseling in the community and the schools.
Reviews
Sisters and Brothers for Life shows us how to comprehend, appreciate, and-something-repair the longest and least understood relationship in our lives. -- Jeanne Safer, PhD, author of The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling and Cain's Legacy: Liberating Siblings from a Lifetime of Rage, Shame, Secrecy, and Regret.
A great combination of quantitative and qualitative research highlighting the many facets of the most fascinating of relationships: Siblings. The book should be of interest to researchers and practitioners alike. -- Avidan Milevsky, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at Ariel University, Israel; author of Sibling Issues in Therapy
Degges-White acknowledges the importance of repairing old wounds and of nurturing sibling support, offering recommendations for reconciling sibling conflicts that are thoughtful and potentially transformative. -- Karen S. Rosen, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
This is an interesting and informative book. As I read I began remembering and relating to the concepts presented in the text. Degges-White has captured the essence of developmental experiences with family and presents the concepts in a readable and consumable fashion. -- Kevin B. Stoltz, PhD, NCC, ACS, University of New Mexico
Book Information
ISBN 9781442265943
Author Suzanne Degges-White
Format Hardback
Page Count 270
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 585g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 159mm * 26mm