Stepfamily Courtship

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.