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25. November 2025

The power of family ties

Book recommendations on family topics

Christmas time is often family time.

The family can provide support, security and love. But it can also pass on traumas, burden members or simply be missing. After all, what is family anyway? Is it about partnership and kinship, or rather about friendship and responsibility? Every family works differently and defines itself differently.

We have compiled some media on the topic of family and its challenges.

Challenges and suggestions

Mindfulness for children, young people and families: Integrating research into practice

ADHD - under the tip of the iceberg: strategies for partnerships and families

Alcohol and drugs in the family: prevention knowledge for parents and educational professionals

Children, media, and pandemic parenting: family life in uncertain times

What remains in the family: love, loyalty and age-old burdens

Depression: helping and not losing yourself : a guide for friends and family

The role of family communication for family resilience: a theoretical and empirical modeling in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Digital media in everyday family life - goals, rules and recommendations

Extreme social withdrawal of young people: Hikikomori in Germany?

Family in your luggage: how to break free from old patterns and find your own life

Family in a storm: first aid for mentally ill parents

Family and everyday family life as an educational challenge

Family ties with autism: how living together can succeed

Family court hearings after parental separation: an analysis from the perspective of children and young people

Family travel: Wishes, requirements, barriers

Family structure, socio-economic status and mental health in childhood

Exploring the house and garden: math and science experiments for the whole family

Every family has a story: how love and pain shape us and what we make of it

Children need attachment: Shaping relationships in the family and daycare center

Children simply think differently: 20 groundbreaking findings from psychological research that make family life easier

Children in family court: a practical handbook on protecting the welfare of children from a legal, psychological and educational perspective

Breaking off contact in families: when living together no longer seems possible

The power of togetherness: innovative methods of networking and community work in families, therapy, school and counseling

Media skills for children: a guide to responsible use of smartphones, tablets and other devices

Practicing the Family: The Doing and Making of Family in, with and Through Social Work and Education

Law and care: a critical sociology of children's participation

Daughters without mothers: the loss of security

Toxic families: detoxifying kinship relationships : the 10-step plan

Inherited destiny: how to overcome stressful family patterns and liberate our true potential : the great practice program

Why we lose family and friends to radical ideologies - and how we can get them back

When family makes you ill: how to deal with, resolve or let go of unhealthy family relationships

The competitive advantage of family awareness: strategies, concrete measures and best practices for attractive employers

How the family determines our lives - genogram and systemic constellations

It's also worth delving into the topic of family in literature, here are 3 more tips for family novels for you:

In times of waning light: novel of a family

Buddenbrooks: The decline of a family

The story of the bees: Novel