Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services

Families losing children to cults experience severe stress that traditional therapeutic approaches do not address. The Cult Clinic offers counseling and educational services to these families, and has developed techniques to treat related family dysfunctions.

Although social supports provide numerous advantages for teenage parents and their children, many young mothers lack the skills and knowledge to use them. The group training program described here assists adolescent mothers in learning to build, use, and maintain networks of social supports.

The process of divorce mediation offers separating spouses an alternative to battles over child custody and support, without usurping the functions of the legal system. Experiences of a mediation service suggest that some trauma may thus be mitigated for the children involved.

Disclosure of an extramarital affair produces a crisis in most marriages that disrupts their stability. The therapist's task is to help the wife and husband to use the crisis to restructure their relationship. This article discusses the complexities of such therapy.

This article seeks to refute the myth holding women responsible for increases in unemployment. It identifies versions of the myth, presents data to challenge them, and discusses the ways in which the myth helps preserve the status quo.

Problem-Oriented Record Keeping (PORK) has proved to be an effective tool for more accountable record keeping. This article discusses how three forms of the PORK system can be appropriately used in different settings and for different purposes.