Friends Forever: How Girls and Women Forge Lasting Relationships - Softcover

Degges-White, Suzanne; Borzumato-Gainey, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442202017 ISBN 13: 9781442202016

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Through thick and thin and everything along the way, it's through friendships that we understand our lives. In this book, authors Suzanne Degges-White, PhD and Christine Borzumato-Gainey, PhD not only explore the roles friendships play for girls and women over the course of a life, but offer a guide to finding new friends and enhancing current relationships. Using interviews with hundreds of women, spanning the ages of 4 to 94, Friends Forever provides readers with a contemporary perspective on female friendship. These personal stories, informed by the latest research on friendship, offer a rich and colorful picture that combines a life stage chronology of friendship with a guide for becoming the friend you would like to have while building strong friendships along the way. Readers will learn how to design and sustain their ideal friendscape, the dynamic and often misunderstood realm in which such bonds flourish. The authors thoughtfully examine the biological and cultural drive towards social connections among women and provide self-reflection and self-exploration opportunities that encourage readers to better understand their own roles in relationships and the roles that others in their social landscapes play.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Friends are vital to our health and happiness, but finding and keeping friendsis not always easy. This wise book offers solid advice on how to build andmaintain strong friendships and an essential network of support. The authorsshed light on the potholes of friendship to prevent us from stumbling and tellhow to be the kind of friend whose relationships will endure 'forever.'"--Marla Paul, author of The Friendship Crisis:Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You're Not a Kid Anymore"Friends Forever carefully and cheerfully covers every aspect and stage ofgirls' and women's friendships with each other. Easy to read, well-researched,and accompanied by wonderful case examples, this book is a must for anyonewishing to understand the ins and outs of these vitally important relationships."--Geoffrey L. Greif, PhD, University of Maryland School of Social Work;author of Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships

About the Author:

Suzanne Degges-White is a counselor in private practice,and professor and chair of the department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of several book chapters, journal articles, and other publications.

Christine Borzumato-Gainey is a Counselor and Instructor at Elon University, NC. She is the author of several publications and presentations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442202017
• ISBN 13: 9781442202016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296