Healthy Emotions: Helping Children Grow

Health, Fitness & Dieting

VanderGoot, Mary

Psychology & Counseling

Baker Pub Group

Piaget as a Visionary Thinker

Wyndham Hall Pr

After Freedom

The youngest Boomers are not quite fifty; the oldest have already turned sixty-five. A generation that started out in the 1960s, determined to be young forever, is now asking what the point is of growing old. Convinced they were special, Boomers discounted authority and charted their own course. They believed they could make the world better by pursuing freedom. The legacy of the Boomer experiment is becoming evident. Freedoms that were new when Boomers were young are now taken for granted, and we are living ""after freedom."" Are our freedoms real or illusory? Can we count on anything to be certain? Do virtue and character matter? In a secular age can we recover respect for the sacred? The time is ripe for Boomers to reconsider those good things in the past they refused to honor, to voice their blessings for generations who will shape the future, and to reclaim conviction as they stand firm and dare to say, ""This is what I believe."" ""Baby Boomers, this is for you! With so many of us still on the planet, it's not surprising that we have gleaned more than a fair share of attention. We've been identified as today's leaders, consumers, investors, philanthropists; the people to court, analyze, enlist, survey, and solicit. Mary VanderGoot's astute observations and incisive conclusions make a timely contribution to understanding this generation and its effect on those who are following."" --Harry Stout Yale University. ""In a time when superficiality trumps depth, Dr. VanderGoot provides thoughtful, solid reasons for investing in the lives of other people. In her hands, perceptions of aging are transformed from a long, slow decline into one of life's great, good gifts."" --Helen M. Sterk Western Kentucky University. ""Mary VanderGoot expertly traces the diminution of authority and the weakening of social bonds to the paradoxical nature of freedom articulated by Baby Boomers. I have not yet read a portrait of the Boomers that combines so well sensitive diagnosis with intelligent advice, making this book a singular achievement, particularly since the shortcomings of the Boomers' world are becoming ever more apparent."" --Jeffrey Polet Hope College Mary VanderGoot is a Licensed Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist, and Addictions Counselor. She is a graduate of Princeton University where she earned a PhD in psychology. In addition to her work as a therapist, Dr. VanderGoot has been a university professor and author of numerous books and articles including: A Life Planning Guide for Women, Narrating Psychology, and Healthy Emotions.

History

Americas

Wipf and Stock

Narrating Psychology: Or, How Psychology Gets Made

The science of psychology faces a crisis because for some time many of the most formative leaders of the discipline have pretended that their discipline is something it is not. They have pretended that psychology is a natural science, and thus they have not done justice to the distinctive character of psychology as a human science. This is the first thesis of the discussion which is to follow in this book. The reasons why psychologists have attempted to establish the scientific status of their discipline are quite understandable. In the modern context where all other means of validating knowledge have been brought into question, science has remained the one source of authority still widely respected. Thus, when during the late decades of the nineteenth century psychologists began to imitate the natural sciences in order to justify claims that their discipline was truly scientific, they were trying to establish its authority.There is ample evidence that religious thought was and important intellectual model for many of the psychologists who were pioneers of their special science. But the importance of religion has been virtually washed out of the history of the discipline. A disciplinary history which tries to bury evidence concerning the religious investments of its heroes, or historians who minimize the significance of religion because religion is not something which they personally believe is important can only breed deception. Such suppression of the truth is not only dishonest, it is a vulgar form of prejudice. This book investigates this prejudice.

The youngest Boomers are not quite fifty; the oldest have already turned sixty-five. A generation that started out in the 1960s, determined to be young forever, is now asking what the point is of growing old. Convinced they were special, Boomers discounted authority and charted their own course. They believed they could make the world better by pursuing freedom. The legacy of the Boomer experiment is becoming evident. Freedoms that were new when Boomers were young are now taken for granted, and we are living "after freedom" Are our freedoms real or illusory? Can we count on anything to be certain? Do virtue and character matter? In a secular age can we recover respect for the sacred? The time is ripe for Boomers to reconsider those good things in the past they refused to honor, to voice their blessings for generations who will shape the future, and to reclaim conviction as they stand firm and dare to say, "This is what I believe"

Cascade Books

Another story about Maggie Barnes and her family. By digging into online genealogy records and talking with their chatty Aunt Lillian, Maggie's children discover the World War II struggles of their paternal grandparents and their silent father, Ross. It's not a story to make kids proud. They find it easier to be critical of their flawed family and assume the next generation will do better. Like an autopsy, Phantom Fathers exposes the problems of this thinking. Soon enough these critical children will be the parents of their own adult children, and they will have their day in court. As Maggie's children discover the trauma that tore through their father's life and the way their grandparents dealt with it--brutal events during World War II, desperate decisions that fractured the family, and a dishonorable emigration to the United States--they wonder if they could have done better under the circumstances. Ross's silence begins to make sense. Most surprising are events that stir the sympathy of disappointed children and open the way to admitting the truth about imperfect ancestors.

Phantom Fathers: The Maggie Barnes Trilogy

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Resource Publications

Phantom Fathers

Resource Publications (CA)

This book is a candid family saga that weaves together conflict and redemption. Maggie is a widow, and her four adult children are navigating their own complicated lives while blaming their parents for the way they were raised. In the unexpected company of a nurse who is hired to help her while she is recovering from an accident, Maggie encounters a young person who is unlike her children in almost every respect. Disarmed by the acceptance of her young companion, Maggie sorts through the rubble of her memories and reveals secrets she has kept from her own children because she feared their judgment and rejection. Discovering the courage that comes from facing her own ghosts, Maggie mends family relationships where she can and makes room in her heart to accept her family as it is.

Broken Glass: The Maggie Barnes Trilogy

Broken Glass

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