Stepfamily Courtship
How to Make Three Right ReMarriage Choices
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Book Details
About the Book
What´s Different about This Book?
This modular reference book and series for co-parents and human-service professionals is unique in the genre of stepfamily media for seven reasons. It is the only current resource that...
- Is based on (a) 30 years´ clinical research, including over 17,000 hours´ consultation with over 1,000 typical divorced and stepfamily adults and some of their kids; (b) five widespread re/marital hazards, and (c) 12 Projects to neutralize the hazards. This volume...
Integrates six core concepts:
# proven family-systems principles; and...
# an inner-family concept of human personalities, linked to...
# a definition of high-nurturance families;
# a framework of seven effective-thinking and communication skills,
# healthy three-level grieving and healing blocked grief; and...
# a framework of stepfamily realities, meanings, and merger-adjustment tasks.
A fifth uniqueness is that the book...
Provides Internet addresses to over 150 experience-based stepfamily articles, worksheets, and other resources to augment its contents. This is one of several guidebooks for a free, 8-module self-study course for people interested in healing and self-growth. Lesson 7 focuses on evolving high-nurturance stepfamilies.
And this book is different because of...
My personality, writing style, training (BSME and MSW), and 72 years´ life experience (engineering, business, teaching, and 30 years´ practice of psychotherapy with hundreds of stepfamily clients). My learnings from personal "ACoA" recovery (from a low-nurturance childhood) since 1986 greatly influence this site and series of stress-prevention guidebooks. And...
I have many years of personal experience as a stepgrandson, adult stepson, stepfather of two girls, and stepbrother of four - and an admirer of two haughty stepcats.
About the Author
Peter has spent over 17,000 hours in clinical, phone, and classroom consultation with members of ~1,000 typical Midwestern divorced families and stepfamilies since 1981. He is an invited member of the Stepfamily Association of America Board of Directors.