The Blended Family. Stepfamily

Becoming A Stepfamily: Patterns of Development in Remarried Families ("Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book Series) by Patricia L Papernow

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What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcomes the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals better support this development? This book brings both clarity and depth to the unique and complex dynamics of remarried families. Patricia Papernow draws on interviews with over 100 stepfamily members, up-to-date research, a solid theoretical framework, and an empathic clinical sensibility to p...1 point

Stepcoupling: Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today's Blended Family by Susan Wisdom

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Happily Remarried: Making Decisions Together * Blending Families Successfully * Building a Love That Will Last by David Frisbie

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Becoming Family: How to Build a Stepfamily That Really Works by Robert H. Lauer

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The Stepparent's Survival Guide: A Workbook for Creating a Happy Blended Family by Suzen J., Ph.D. Ziegahn

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Stepfamilies by James H. Bray, John Kelly

Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's more...0 points

Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's leading expert on stepfamilies reveals his breakthrough findings and offers the first detailed guide to easing the conflicts of stepfamily life and healing the scars of divorce.There are more than twenty million stepfamilies in America. For most of them, the simple, daily issues that challenge every family are even more anxiety-provoking. After conducting a comprehensive nine-year-long study funded by the National Institutes of Health, Dr....0 points

Help! A Girl's Guide to Divorce and Stepfamilies by Nancy Holyoke

The breakup of her parents can turn a girl's world more...0 points

The breakup of her parents can turn a girl's world upside down. This third title in the Help! Series answers girls' letters on every aspect of divorce - from the initial split-up to a parent's remarriage - and encourages conversation with parents when it's needed most. The book includes tips and quizzes, plus advice from girls who have wisdom to share.0 points

The Step-Tween Survival Guide: How to Deal With Life in a Stepfamily by Lisa Cohn, Debbie Glasser

Life as a preteen (a.k.a. "tween") can b more...0 points

Life as a preteen (a.k.a. "tween") can be challenging. Life as a stepkid can be equally tough. Put them together, and it can be like climbing Mount Everest . . . daily. Step-tweens are not only caught between childhood and teenhood they re also often caught between two parents, two families, and two homes. This book lets them know they are not alone, helps them identify and express their feelings, and teaches them how to effectively communicate their wants and needs. The engaging format includes...0 points

Smart Stepfamily, The: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family by Ron L. Deal

Ron Deal explodes the myth of the "blended&qu more...0 points

Ron Deal explodes the myth of the "blended" family as he provides practical, realistic solutions to the issues that stepfamilies face. He helps remarried and soon-to-be married couples Recognize the unique personality and place of each family member Solve the everyday puzzles of stepparenting and stepchildren relationships Learn communication skills to deal with ex-spouses Honor families of origin while developing new traditions Invest the time to grow their stepfamily slowly rather than look fo...0 points

Strengthening Your Stepfamily (Rebuilding Books) by Elizabeth Einstein, Linda Albert

One of three Americans is now a stepparent, a step more...0 points

One of three Americans is now a stepparent, a stepchild, a stepsibling, or some other member of a stepfamily. Stepfamilies are different. The "old rules" that govern traditional families don't necessarily apply, and each stepfamily must define its own "new rules" that will work for a unique blended family. Einstein and Albert bring to this manual decades of experience as stepfamily counselors and consultants, acclaimed writers, and stepparents themselves. The result is clear, down-to-earth, expe...0 points

How To Win As A Stepfamily by Visher

Attempts to guide readers towards forming the rema more...0 points

Attempts to guide readers towards forming the remarried family, considering such issues as former spouses, new grandparents, and legal issues involving custody, visitation, adoption and financial arrangements.0 points

The Stepfamily Survival Guide by Natalie Nichols Gillespie

Statistics tell us that one in three Americans is more...0 points

Statistics tell us that one in three Americans is a member of a stepfamily. Though rarely acknowledged in churches even today, millions of Christians struggle with the obstacles common in divorce and remarriage. A stepmother herself, Natalie Gillespie offers hope and healing to stepfamilies who are striving to achieve harmony in their households. This handbook addresses the painful issues many stepfamilies must work through, including part-time parenting, discipline, issues with former spouses,....0 points

The Smart Step-Family: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family by Ron L. Deal

Ron Deal explodes the myth of the "blended" more...0 points

Ron Deal explodes the myth of the "blended" family as he provides practical, realistic solutions to the issues that stepfamilies face. He helps remarried and soon-to-be married couples Recognize the unique personality and place of each family member Solve the everyday puzzles of stepparenting and stepchildren relationships Learn communication skills to deal with ex-spouses Honor families of origin while developing new traditions Invest the time to grow their stepfamily slowly rather than look fo...0 points

Positive Discipline for Your Stepfamily: Nurturing Harmony, Respect, and Joy in Your New Family (Positive Discipline) by Cheryl Erwin, H.Stephen Glenn, Jane Nelsen, Stephen Glenn

A Blueprint for Bringing Together Two FamiliesLiving more...0 points

A Blueprint for Bringing Together Two FamiliesLiving in a stepfamily is challenging. But a household where yours and mine must become ours can become a harmonious family unit. It is possible to build a stepfamily that works for all of its members-an environment where both adults and children can feel safe, loved, and free to grow and learn.Written to address the particular challenges that stepfamilies typically confront, this latest addition to the bestselling Positive Discipline series hel...0 points

Living In A Step-family Without Getting Stepped On Helping Your Children Survive The Birth Order Blender by Kevin Leman

"When two families unite, they don't blend, they more...0 points

"When two families unite, they don't blend, they collide," says Dr. Kevin Leman, bestselling author of The New Birth Order Book. But he also believes, "You can blend a family without breaking it. The principles in this book will help you wage the battle of blending your family-and come up not only a survivor but a winner!" By understanding the impact that birth order has on each family member, parents are better equipped to ease the transition into a new, different but functional family unit. U...0 points

Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies by Grace Gabe, Jean Lipman-Blumen

More and more people over age sixty-five are remarrying more...0 points

More and more people over age sixty-five are remarrying each year, and few families are prepared for the avalanche of feelings that comes when adult children learn that a parent is getting remarried. Psychiatrist Grace Gabe and award winning author Jean Lipman-Blumen provide a practical guide with advice and understanding for every family facing this increasingly common, complex situation. Using case studies from a variety of perspectives, chapters address concerns frequently faced, including:*....0 points

Stepfamily Success: Practical Solutions for Common Challenges by Natalie Nichols Gillespie

Statistics tell us that one in three Americans is more...0 points

Statistics tell us that one in three Americans is a member of a stepfamily. Though rarely acknowledged in churches even today, millions of Christians struggle with the obstacles common in divorce and remarriage. A stepmother herself, Natalie Gillespie offers hope and healing to stepfamilies who are striving to achieve harmony in their households. This handbook addresses the many issues stepfamilies work through, including part-time parenting, discipline, issues with former spouses, and intimidat...0 points

The Truth about Stepfamilies: Real American Stepfamilies Speak Out by Anne O'Connor

As divorce and remarriage rates soar, stepfamilies more...0 points

As divorce and remarriage rates soar, stepfamilies are quickly becoming the rule rather than the exception. In The Truth about Stepfamilies, professional journalist and longtime stepmom Anne O'Connor shares personal stories of parents and children from across the country about their struggle to create their own family and traditions amidst the history that each person brings to the new household. She answers all the tough questions that this new family unit must face. Where does the new steppare...0 points

Pastoral Care With Stepfamilies: Mapping the Wilderness by Loren L. Townsend

Within the next ten years, it is projected that mo more...0 points

Within the next ten years, it is projected that more children will be brought up in stepfamilies than in intact nuclear families. Yet pastors' skills for marriage and family therapy are almost exclusively based on the assumptions of the so-called traditional family. Townsend shows ministers and pastoral counselors how they can provide effective marriage and family counseling for this growing segment of the population.0 points

Stepfamily Realities: How to Overcome Difficulties and Have a Happy Family by Margaret Newman

Providing practical information and effective advi more...0 points

Providing practical information and effective advice, this helpful guidebook helps stepfamilies understand and cope with the special problems and issues that arise in new family relationships. Simultaneous.0 points

Stepfamily Relationships: Development, Dynamics, and Interventions by Lawrence H. Ganong, Marilyn Coleman

The proliferation of divorces and remarriages at t more...0 points

The proliferation of divorces and remarriages at the end of the 20th century has made the concept of the stepfamily a common one in today's society. In the U.S., for example, half of all marriages are remarriages for one or both partners, and nearly one-third of the children in the U.S. will spend some time living in a stepparent household before they reach adulthood. Relationships within these blended families have their own characteristics, and much is known about their development. Despite ad...0 points

Therapy with Stepfamilies (Brunner/Mazel Basic Principles Into Practice Series, Vol 6) by Emily B. Visher

The author proceed to regard stepfamilies as diffe more...0 points

The author proceed to regard stepfamilies as different-not better or worse-than the nuclear family for successful therapy. While it is designed to be concise, the book offers a comprehensive look at this topic. The Vishers have crafted a text that will be equally useful to therapists working with stepfamilies, those unfamiliar with the field, and as a text for therapy training programs |o0 points

Blended Families: Creating Harmony as You Build a New Home Life by Maxine Marsolini

When re-married couples bring their families toget more...0 points

When re-married couples bring their families together, they face unique challenges. Somehow, they must bring unity out of diversity. Maxine Marsolini points to biblical solutions to the conflict commonly found in divorce and remarriage situations. 'Growth and Application' questions make this an excellent resource for small groups or Christian counseling.0 points

God Breathes on Blended Families by Moe Becnel

In 1989, Moe & Paige Becnel married and began more...0 points

In 1989, Moe & Paige Becnel married and began the task of blending his three children and her two children into a true family. The Becnels experienced many struggles, failures, and eventually victory in the blending process. God Breathes on Blended Families is the story of their blended family coming together in fullness, and is a handbook for other blended families who are pursuing a solid, loving family. This book identifies several crucial problem areas that blended families, children of divo...0 points

Raising Children in Blended Families: Helpful Insights, Expert Opinions, and True Stories by Maxine Marsolini

A realistic and forthright resource, this practica more...0 points

A realistic and forthright resource, this practical guide for parents of blended families helps adults understand their children's feelings and cope with arising difficulties. (20070501)0 points

The Blended Family: Achieving Peace and Harmony in the Christian Home by Edward Douglas; Sharon Douglas

Love between two people that once seemed heavenly more...0 points

Love between two people that once seemed heavenly becomes extremely complicated when two households are joined in marriage. When a number of strangers of various stages in life suddenly come together to be a family, unexpected issues concerning discipline, finances, outside influences, and privacy surface. Roles become confusing. In the Blended Family, Edward and Sharon Douglas address the complex nature of the stepfamily. Believing that the answers to all concerns can be discovered in the Word....0 points

Step Parenting and the Blended Family: Recognizing the Problems and Overcoming the Obstacles by Scott Wooding

Despite the fact that more than 40 percent of Canadian more...0 points

Despite the fact that more than 40 percent of Canadian marriages end in divorce each year, over 70 percent of divorced people eventually remarry and fail again-over 50 percent of the time. Among the many reasons for the failure of these second marriages between supposedly older and wiser participants, the problems stemming from step-parenting and the blending of the families ranks high, explains psychologist and author Scott Wooding in this comprehensive and groundbreaking look at the challenges...0 points

The Blended Family Sourcebook : A Guide to Negotiating Change by David S. Chedekel, Karen O'Connell

With more than 50 percent of children living in non-traditional more...0 points

With more than 50 percent of children living in non-traditional families, the need for a comprehensive resource on the emotional and social ramifications of blended families has never been greater. The Blended Family Sourcebook is an insightful and practical guide for families dealing with the unique challenges of divorce, remarriage, and the process of blending households. This practical guide takes readers through a step-by-step process for successfully blending families, including a comprehen...0 points

Tying the Family Knot: Meeting the Challenges of a Blended Family by Terri Clark

Tying the Family Knot is a very practical and Bibl more...0 points

Tying the Family Knot is a very practical and Biblical book, specifically for Christian women, on an occurrence that is more common and that affects more people today than ever before. The divorce rate for first marriages in America today is at 51 percent and even higher for second marriages with children. In the best of circumstances, stepparenting can dampen the enthusiasm of any marriage. Simple problems that are challenging to manage in a traditional home can turn explosive in a blended fami...0 points

I Have a New Family Now: Understanding Blended Families (Comforting Little Hearts Series) by Robin Prince Monroe

Families change from time to time. Deaths, births, more...0 points

Families change from time to time. Deaths, births, divorces, remarriages can all bring new people into a child's family. By using this book, parents can help children understand why they need not fear changes in their family, and how they're always in God's family.0 points

The Splendid, Blended Family by Marcia A. Sherman

Rose experiences the fall and winter holiday seaso more...0 points

Rose experiences the fall and winter holiday season with her blended family.0 points

Becoming One Family: Bringing Blended Families Together by Steve Houpe

Steve and Donna Houpe successfully blended their two more...0 points

Steve and Donna Houpe successfully blended their two families to become one with many parts. As pastors of one of the fastest growing churches in Kansas City, they lived through the twists and turns of making two families, plus a few more, come together and, at the same, time grew a thriving ministry. Readers will find amazing and practical insight for making this modern day dilemma really work.Blended families have become almost the norm in America today and the challenges they present are grea...0 points

Happily Remarried: Making Decisions Together * Blending Families Successfully * Building a Love That Will Last by David Frisbie, Lisa Frisbie

Nearly 60 percent of remarriages end in divorce. What more...0 points

Nearly 60 percent of remarriages end in divorce. What can people do to beat the odds? David and Lisa Frisbie share the fruits of more than 20 years of speaking, teaching, and counseling. Having talked to hundreds of couples, the authors use many real-life examples and speak with hope and humor about the challenges. They point to four key strategies to help bring long-term unity: forgive everyone, including yourself regard remarriage as permanent and irreversible use conflict to get be...0 points

Blended Families Workbook by Maxine Marsolini

Those who expect a blended family to be just like more...0 points

Those who expect a blended family to be just like a first-time family will be disappointed. Blended families are even more challenging. Couples bringing two families together should count the cost and be highly educated about the process. Far too few adults know how to co-parent well, address anger issues, or set healthy boundaries. Maxine Marsolini's workbook discusses topics common to all blended families. This well-planned series of lessons considers outcome thinking not just crisis mana...0 points

7 Keys to a Healthy Blended Family by Jim Smoke

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God Breathes on Blended Families Workbook by Moe Becnel, Paige Becnel

As the Becnel's have met with other blended famili more...0 points

As the Becnel's have met with other blended families who have read GOD BREATHES ON BLENDED FAMILIES, they have often seen that these families grasp the ideas established in the book, but still struggle to make the necessary changes in their own family. GOD BREATHES ON BLENDED FAMILIES WORKBOOK is written to assist blended families in reaching the full potential of being the loving family unit that God designed a family to be, in which every family member is an integral part, feels truly loved an...0 points

The Single Girl's Guide to Marrying a Man, His Kids, and His Ex-Wife: Becoming A Stepmother With Humor And Grace by Sally Bjornsen

A funny, honest, and empathetic resource for the n more...0 points

A funny, honest, and empathetic resource for the novice stepmother, which includes advice on The kids: Adjusting to suspicion, resentment, and biological-parent loyalties; The ex-wife: Living calmly alongside her, whether she's a psycho or the perfect mother; The holidays: Accommodating old family traditions and developing new ones; The sex: Keeping love alive through the kids' bed-wetting and nightmares. Plus an invaluable list of resources, websites, publications, and organizations specificall...0 points