Stepfathers, Struggles and Solutions

Stepfathers, Struggles and Solutions
Author: Charles Somervill
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1989
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780664250584

This book follows the development of the ficticious Doug Cartwright stepfamily through their struggles and adjustments over a period of three years. At the end of each chapter, there is a helpful conclusion that evaluates the progress of the stepchildren under the imperfect but maturing influence of their parents. Doug emerges as a developing stepfather who learns how to cope with a variety of stepfamily problems. Written in an easy-to-read style, this entertaining yet instructive narrative is an excellent resource for any stepparent, counselor, or pastor.

Stepfathers 30 Day Wisdom Guide

Stepfathers 30 Day Wisdom Guide
Author: Jerwan A. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2008
Genre: Devotional calendars
ISBN: 9780976539636

Are you a step-father looking for answers? Are you fed-up with the tension, division and being an outcast in your own home? Are you a wife concerned about your husband?s frustrations of being a step-father? Are you worried about the problems your children are facing due to adapting to a new dad? At last, a book designed with you in mind! Here's a 30-day wisdom guide that addresses the trials and triumphs of being a Stepfather. This book clearly articulates the joys and jitters of raising step children. In this 30 day wisdom guide, you will find answers to your problems, wisdom to produce solutions and applicable steps that will birth change and transform you to reach your potential. During and after this 30-day experience, expect to be encouraged, your marriage to be healed, and the children in your home to be empowered for growth. This book is a must read for every blended family.

How To Win As A Stepfamily

How To Win As A Stepfamily
Author: Emily B. Visher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135063974

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.

Stepparenting

Stepparenting
Author: Jeannette Lofas
Publisher: M J F Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781567311792

Presents a practical guide to stepparenting, covering subjects such as single-parent dating, household organization, sibling rivalry, etiquette, joint custody and legal issues.

Blended Family Advice

Blended Family Advice
Author: Shirley Cress Dudley MA LPC
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1450001904

Blended Family Advice is step-by-step guide to help blended and stepfamilies navigate the rough areas in their marriage and family. The book focuses on three main areas: marriage, kids, and the outside world. Learn how to communicate with your ex-spouse successfully, create a sense of unity in your newly blended family, how to treat stepparents and stepsiblings, and how to create house rules and expectations in your new blended household. Shirley Cress Dudley uses her skills as a licensed professional counselor, and as a stepmom to help blended and step families learn how to become strong and successful. Blended Family Advice contains the keys to a successful blended family along with several bonus reports: a financial planner, creating successful blended family holidays, house hunting for the blended family, and a guide for grandparents. Blended families and stepfamilies will find this book to be a comprehensive resource and one that every stepfamily and blended family will need in their home. Visit The Blended and Step Family Resource Center http://www.TheBlendedandStepFamilyResourceCenter.com and http://www.BlendedFamilyAdvice.com for more information. Shirley Cress Dudley, MA LPC [email protected]

Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling

Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling
Author: Robert J. Wicks
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1993
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780809133512

Building on the groundbreaking original work with the same title, these articles focus on current issues, such as certain life stages, special populations, the devalued and abused, the addicted and special issues of the 1990's.

Stepmonster

Stepmonster
Author: Wednesday Martin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2011-01-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0547394314

An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children. When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that “stepmonster” feeling? Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. To guide women new to this role—and empower those who are struggling with it—Wednesday Martin draws upon her own experience as a stepmother. She's frank about the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, she considers the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, and she counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems that often develop. Along the way, she interviews other stepmothers and stepchildren and offers up fascinating insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology that explain the little-understood realities of this unique parent-child relationship and—in an unexpected twist—shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is the single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.

Biblical Counsel

Biblical Counsel
Author:
Publisher: Lettermen Associates
Total Pages: 842
Release: 1993
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780963682116

Tough Problems, Real Solutions

Tough Problems, Real Solutions
Author: Jim Burns
Publisher: Gospel Light
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2002
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9781569553473

Personal problems loom in the lives of teens and appear to them to be bigger and more threatening than the gigantic crocodiles that lurk in Florida's Everglades. Here, popular author and youth leader Jim Burns sensitively takes up their concerns and offers sound, biblically based advice. Topics include eating disorders, broken families, physical abuse, loneliness, low self-esteem, boredom, stress, unbelief, and much more.

The Smart Stepfamily

The Smart Stepfamily
Author: Ron L. Deal
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2006
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 076420159X

Each member has their own unique place in a family. Ron Deal explores the myth of the "blended" family offering practical, realistic solutions for stepfamilies.