Learn the five major challenges that stepfamilies face and gain insights on how to address them effectively.
Dr. Patricia Papernow will share a clinical framework that integrates a wide variety of therapeutic modalities on three levels.
Equip yourself with practical tools, strategies, and interventions to enhance your therapy practice with stepfamilies and achieve more successful outcomes.
Stepfamilies are Different!
'Blended families' all too often find themselves facing unhappy 'resistant' children, mired in constant painful ruptures over parenting issues, disagreeing about everything from basic values to the appropriateness of buying a pair of sneakers for a child and caught in tangles with ex-spouses. Meanwhile children often feel quite misunderstood and alone.
The good news is that over four decades of research and clinical work tell us a lot about how to help. However, what works is often quite different from what works in a first-time family. Sadly, despite the fact that 42% of Americans, and a fairly similar percentage of families in many countries around the world, have a close stepfamily relationship, few clinical programs provide even the most basic training.
About Dr. Patricia Papernow
Dr. Patricia Papernow has taught about “blended families” all over the U.S. and the world. She has written about best clinical practices for meeting stepfamily challenges and shared current research about “blended families” in dozens of articles and book chapters and has authored the leading books in the field: Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships: What Works and What Doesn’t, and, with Karen Bonnell, The Stepfamily Handbook: From Dating, to Getting Serious to Forming a “Blended Family.” Patricia is a highly engaging teacher, a systems and trauma-trained clinician, and an attuned caring clinical supervisor. She is the recipient of the 2017 award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Psychology from the Society for Couple and Family Psychology of the APA (American Psychological Association).
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Become an Empowered Clinician!
Whether you work with individuals, couples or families with adult children or young children, this training will give you solid practical, evidence-informed guidance about what works, and what doesn’t, to help stepfamily members meet their challenges.
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$349.00
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