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Segundas oportunidades: Segundas Oportunidades
By Rainbow Rowell. 2015
Si el destino te diera una segunda oportunidad con el amor de tu vida...¿harías la misma llamada? Cuando Georgie y…
Neal se conocieron, fue amor a primera vista, un amor que parecía poder con cualquier inconveniente. Pero ahora tienen problemas, tienen problemas desde hace tiempo. Todavía se aman profundamente, aunque eso parece no importar. O quizás nunca importó demasiado. Estas Navidades, Neal y Georgie van a hacer un viaje juntos, una escapada que les permita retomar su relación. Pero un compromiso de última hora obliga a Georgie a quedarse. Esa misma noche, cuando Georgie llama a Neal para intentar arreglar las cosas, con quien realmente se comunica es con un Neal más joven, el Neal que conoció hace tiempo, antes de que todo empezara. No es un viaje en el tiempo, no exactamente, pero ella siente que se le ha dado una oportunidad de arreglarlo todo antes de que empiece...Mejor libro de ficción en Goodreads.Mejor libro del año en Amazon.Mejor libro del año en Kobo. La opinión de los lectores:«Sin duda el mejor libro de Rainbow Rowell. Se nota desde el principio que la escritura es más madura, reflexiva y dramática y transmite perfectamente el clima entre la pareja protagonista.»Blog Pasarán las horas«Segundas oportunidades es una historia auténtica y realista, amarga a ratos, con aire de nostalgia y dulce en los momentos oportunos. Destaca la prosa de la autora, cuidada y bella.»Blog Lo que quiera leer hoy«Una historia sencilla, pero contada de la más tierna manera, la cual logra hacer ver que, en la sencillez de un libro, se esconden grandes historias, y sobre todo una escritora que desprende dulzura en cada una de sus páginas.»Blog My Favourite Books «Rainbow Rowell ha vuelto a escribir una historia entrañable, genial y de la que hay mucho que aprender con unos personajes muy bien construidos. Un libro que recomiendo y una autora que se ha vuelto imprescindible en mis estanterías.»Blog Millones de letras La opinión de la crítica:«Después de los éxitos Eleanor y Park y Fangirl, ha quedado claro que Rowell es una maestra a la hora de escribir historias emocionalmente auténticas... Cuando la novela llega a sus momentos más conmovedores, Rowell inyecta la dosis adecuada de humor para arrancar una carcajada a través de las lágrimas.»RT Book Reviews «Sus personajes son sencillamente adorables, y la historia mantiene un buen ritmo... el final logra sorprender y satisfacer a todos. Una historia que llega al corazón.»Kirkus Reviews«El diálogo fluye de forma natural; es enérgico, divertido y fresco. El flirteo entre el Neal del pasado y Georgie es genuinamente romántico.»Boston Globe
¿Por qué se mueren los amores?
By María Cecilia Betancur. 2015
Causas del fracaso y estrategias para que una relación perdure ¿Porqué se mueren los amores? Los amores no se mueren…
porque sí. Seacaban porque se fijan en la persona equivocada, porque nacen de lanecesidad o porque los dejan morir. Es frecuente caer en el error deelegir a una persona que por inmadurez afectiva, desajustes depersonalidad o circunstancias recientes no está preparada para llevaruna relación; así surgen los amores mortificantes. También es fácilconfundir el verdadero amor, desinteresado y generoso, con el deseo desatisfacer necesidades psicológicas como la de ser completado, darle unsentido a la vida o superar los traumas y experienciasdolorosas del pasado; cuando nacen de motivaciones equivocadas sonamores menesterosos. Finalmente, pueden ser saludables al nacer, perofrágiles al crecer e incapaces de sostenerse por sí solos. Tras unospocos años de relación, abandonados a su propia suerte, se convierten enamores huérfanos.Usted puede encontrarse entre quienes aún no están comprometidosy desean prepararse para cuando llegue el día, entre quienes están enuna relación y procuran no equivocarse, o entre aquellos que vienen deuna ruptura más que los ha puesto a pensar: #¿Quépasa conmigo? ¿Por qué se mueren mis amores?#. Cualquiera que sea sucaso, aquí encontrará puntos de análisis, motivos de reflexión ypropuestas de acción que lo guiarán por el camino de las parejas que sonfelices juntas.
Dos para ser felices
By Lucía Náder, Lorena Eugenia Polanía Pérez. 2014
Guía práctica para vivir en armonía con su pareja Nadie duda de lo importante que son las terapias de pareja…
para ayudar ahombres y mujeres a mejorar su relación en estas épocas de divorcios yseparaciones, pero ¿cuántos tienen el tiempo y el dinero para acceder aellas? Dos para ser felices es una guía práctica para todos aquellos quequieren fortalecer su amor de la mano de psicólogas expertas.//Estelibro no es una lectura más, es un espacio de trabajopara que juntos construyan una visión clara de lo queesperan y desean obtener de su relación, con metas y expectativasrealistas, basados en el conocimiento de las fortalezasy limitaciones de cada uno, en la identificación de losproblemas que tienen como conjunto y en la dirección quedesean dar a sus vidas. A partir de casos, consejos, ejerciciosy cuestionarios aprenderán a mantener un vínculo amorosoestable, sano y feliz.
Infants, Children, and Adolescents
By Laura E. Berk. 2023
Now published by SAGE! A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied…
on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition’s extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.
Infants, Children, and Adolescents
By Laura E. Berk. 2023
Now published by SAGE! A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied…
on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition’s extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.
Ho'oponopono: The Hawaiian Ritual of Forgiveness
By Ulrich E. Duprée. 2023
A new expanded edition of the bestselling guide to Ho&‘oponopono• Includes new practical exercises and contemplations to help you immediately…
create positive changes in your everyday life• Explores the process of practical forgiveness and how to use Ho&‘oponopono to transform personal problems, resolve relationship conflicts, and heal the past• Looks at how to use Ho&‘oponopono on a collective level to bring peace to the worldHo&‘oponopono is the ancient Hawaiian method for transforming personal problems, resolving interpersonal conflicts, and healing the past through the power of forgiveness. At the core of Ho&‘oponopono are four magical sentences: I am sorry, Please forgive me, I love you, Thank you. A deceptively simple yet enormously effective practice, Ho&‘oponopono is centered on the concept that we are all deeply connected and that small acts of forgiveness and reconciliation can ripple outward to help and heal others.Newly revised and expanded, this bestselling guide offers practical exercises and Ho&‘oponopono contemplations to help you immediately create positive changes in your everyday life. The author explains how Ho&‘oponopono means &“restoring the divine order.&” Whether it is your relationship with your partner, your children or parents, your health, Mother Earth, your business, job, or financial situation, Ho&‘oponopono can help you set straight anything veering off course through understanding and self-forgiveness. The author explores the process of focusing on difficult conflicts within personal relationships, whether in the present or the past, and shows how, by addressing these issues, owning one&’s feelings, and accepting unconditional love, unhealthy situations transform into positive outcomes and growth. He also looks at how to use Ho&‘oponopono on a collective level to bring peace to the world.Presenting a step-by-step introduction to the ancient ritual of Ho&‘oponopono, this book shows how practical forgiveness work can help bring healing to self, family, and community as well as support all of humanity to become more connected and loving again.
What About Men?: A Feminist Answers the Question
By Caitlin Moran. 2023
An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestsellerWith her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to…
answer society’s weirdly unasked question: What About Men?Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: “But what about men?” And at first, tbh, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn’t need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was “boycotting” International Women’ Day because “It's easier to be a woman than a man these days,” she started to wonder: are unhappy boys, and men, also making unhappy women? The statistics on male misery are grim: boys are falling behind in school, are at greater risk of depression, greater risk of suicide, and, most pertinently, are increasingly at risk from online misogynist radicalization. Will the Sixth Wave of feminism need to fix the men, if it wants to fix the women? Moran began to investigate—talking to her husband, close male friends, and her daughters' friends: bringing up very difficult and candid topics, and receiving vulnerable and honest responses. So: what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if their partner makes them? Why do they never discuss their penises with each other—but make endless jokes about their balls? What is porn doing for young men? Is sexual strangling a good hobby for young people to have? Are men ever allowed to be sad? Are they ever allowed to lose? Have Men's Rights Activists confused “power” with “empowerment”? Are Mid-Life Crises actually quite cool? And what’s the deal with Jordan Peterson’s lobster?In this thoughtful, warm, provocative book, Moran opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the twenty-first century, so that “straight white man” doesn’t automatically mean bad news—but also uses the opportunity to make a lot of jokes about testicles, and trousers. Because if men have neither learned to mine their deepest anxieties about masculinity for comedy, nor answered the question “What About Men?,” then it’s up to a busy woman to do it.
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness,…
betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. <p><p>In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life. <p><p>Discover the four types of difficult parents: <p><p>The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety <p><p>The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone <p><p>The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting <p><p>The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory
The Internet Family: Technology in Couple and Family Relationships
By Katherine M. Hertlein, Markie L. Twist. 2019
In The Internet Family, Drs. Katherine Hertlein and Markie Twist provide a current and comprehensive look at the effects of…
technology on couple and family relationships. Beginning with an overview of the multifaceted ways in which technology impacts our relationships today, the authors discuss a wide range of topics pertinent to couple and family life. Chapters focus on issues such as online dating and infidelity, parenting and the Internet, video gaming, cyberbullying, and everyday usage of social and new media, before providing guidance on how the reader can successfully navigate the advantages and risks that emerge from the use of specific technologies. An online appendix offers a range of assessments and practical tools for identifying Internet-related problems and solutions. A portion of the text is also devoted to the application of the Couple and Family Technology framework and how it can be effectively integrated into clinicians’ current practice. Couple and family therapists will find this book highly informative, both to use in their own practice and for referring clients to as part of the treatment process.
Discover research from across the United States and around the world on children exposed to domestic violence!If you are a…
member of a helping, medical, or legal profession, Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Current Issues in Research, Intervention, Prevention, and Policy Development will help you explore research, assessments, interventions, and policy and prevention for children, victims of battering, batterers, and their families. This important book focuses on various aspects of spousal/partner abuse and child maltreatment. Comprehensive and thorough, Children Exposed to Domestic Violence focuses on three major sections: theoretical and research issues, intervention and prevention strategies, and policy development from an international perspective. Some of the important issues you will examine include: exploring the importance of partnerships between the domestic violence front-line workers and researchers at universities addressing the thorny issues of parenting in abused women assessing all areas of children's adjustment as well as their various relationships that may be problematic investigating the results of a quarter century research on men who batter by focusing on the crucial link between exposure to violence in childhood and adult marital behavior understanding the role of physiological and environmental factors as central to the role in domestic violence exploring the challenges faced by shelter staff in providing services to children who accompany their mother to find refuge examining new ideas for primary prevention programs in schools understanding policy and legislative implications of the growing body of literature on the impact of exposure to violence on children Children Exposed to Domestic Violence exemplifies the serious challenges faced by social workers, educators, policymakers, psychologists and others in helping professions working with children who have been exposed to domestic violence. You will gain insight into the vast amount of research that has taken place in the last ten years on this problem that will assist you with creating research ideas, interventions, prevention programs, and policies concerning children exposed to domestic violence.
This book offers a critical review of the main psychological theories on adaptation after loss followed by an overview of…
the results of the empirical research on bereavement. It also reflects on the results of the Leiden Bereavement Study, which compares the consequences of death.
Assessing Family Relationships: A Family Life Space Drawing Manual
By Theresa A. Beeton, Ronald A. Clark. 2019
Assessing Family Relationships shows mental health professionals how to utilize the Family Life Space Drawing (the FLSD), a family assessment…
tool that incorporates information from multiple family members while building connections between the clinician and the client. In this manual, Theresa A. Beeton and Ronald A. Clark demonstrate the usefulness of the FLSD in both family and couple counseling. As a task-centered assessment tool, the FLSD enables an interactive and personalized process of counseling, which helps individuals to express concerns and information about themselves in an indirect and nonthreatening manner. Chapters are illustrated throughout with case studies and drawings adapted from the authors’ own clinical experience, and the manual offers an overview of the history of the FLSD, as well as where future research is headed. Providing a practical explanation of how to complete the FLSD process, Assessing Family Relationships will be highly relevant to couple and family therapists, as well as clinical social workers, who are interested in updating their practice with innovative family assessment research and techniques.
Special Problems in Counseling the Chemically Dependent Adolescent
By Eileen S Sweet. 1992
Here is a valuable book to help professionals provide the most successful treatment for chemically dependent teenagers by examining the…
special conditions associated with adolescent chemical dependency. Counselors with experience in treating alcoholism and substance abuse need to have an awareness of the distinctive problems of adolescent chemical dependence that are related to their developmental nature. Such complicated problems as sexual abuse, eating disorders, addictive gambling, and membership in cults are discussed in their relationship to the treatment of the adolescent substance abuser. Special cases of the mentally impaired adolescent and the relapsing chemically dependent adolescent are also discussed in this remarkable volume. Treatment professionals will find encouragement for their work with adolescent clients in Special Problems in Counseling the Chemically Dependent Adolescent, which approaches counseling from a holistic perspective and perceives the family structure as an agent of change. The comprehensive chapters create a better understanding of the different addictions that affect the adolescent population and the pertinent factors that complicate the treatment of chemical addiction. The correlation between chemical abuse and child abuse in families is examined and strategies for treating adolescents suffering from chemical abuse and gambling addiction are suggested. A study of eating disorders among adolescents demonstrates the similarities in the etiology, treatment, and assessment of anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive eating, and the conditions resulting in chemical dependency. Experienced professionals counseling and working with adolescents will be able to provide more efficient treatment to their clients by utilizing the practical suggestions presented in this important book.
Divorce and the Next Generation: Perspectives for Young Adults in the New Millennium
By Craig Everett. 2002
Can the children of broken homes learn to trust promises of commitment?The repercussions of divorce on children has been hotly…
debated for years. Divorce and the Next Generation: Perspectives for Young Adults in the New Millennium offers solid, peer-reviewed research into the aftermath of divorce. This valuable volume presents a scientific look at an issue that all too often is discussed in ideological terms. This sequel to the groundbreaking Divorce and the Next Generation (published in 1993) examines the emotional, relational, and even physiological effects of divorce. It offers helpful tables and figures, thorough literature reviews, and metanalysis as well as original research. The studies analyze such diverse factors as gender, age at divorce, and level of conflict in the marriage. The results may surprise you.This book takes a close look at the psychological interactions of divorce with many areas of children’s emotional functioning, including: relationship with parents interpersonal relationships attitudes toward intimacy and marriage self-blame and self-esteem gender schematizationDivorce and the Next Generation, brings together some of the leading researchers in the field. These detailed studies in the lingering aftereffects of divorce will be of interest to psychologists, family therapists, and policymakers.
The Forsaken Child: Essays on Group Care and Individual Therapy
By D Patrick Zimmerman. 2001
Residential treatment can be a path to healing or a revolving door. Make the program you're involved with as effective…
as possible!For a number of years, many mental health professionals, public interest groups, and child advocates have been pressing for the use of increasingly time-limited (short-term) models of residential treatment and psychotherapy for children and adolescents. Yet the children who are most often referred for residential care are clearly more emotionally disturbed than in years past. They have more extensive backgrounds of social failure and often have dysfunctional or barely existent families. The Forsaken Child confronts this dilemma. These essays on the delivery of group care and individual treatment services for young people present an argument for the preservation of thoughtful, humanistic forms of residential treatment. In The Forsaken Child: Essays on Group Care and Individual Therapy, you'll find well-thought-out discussions of: Anna Freud's altruistic devotion to providing group care for the infant and child victims of World War I bombings in London, with descriptions of important parallels between her observations of the young war victims in her care and the experiences of abandoned, neglected, and abused children in American cities today the historical foundations of milieu treatment and an examination of persisting issues the humane concerns of the early founders of residential care vs. the present-day objectivist climate a long-term case study of a young child in residential care highlighting a number of clinical issues which contraindicate the use of either brief therapy techniques or short-term group care how an interactive, social-constructionist treatment approach helped an adolescent boy in residential care achieve psychological growth and a sense of optimism about the futureThe Forsaken Child will be of significant help to residential facility administrators in longer-range program planning and to social workers and other clinicians who cope with the daily clinical issues that arise in group and individual treatment settings.
Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers
By Alan Hawkins, Jay Fagan. 2001
Call on men's hidden strengths to help them become responsible fathers in even the most challenging circumstances!Clinical and Educational Interventions…
with Fathers gives you fresh approaches for effective interventions with fathers. Whether by calling on their faith to help them deal with the complexities of fatherhood or offering high-tech interventions on the Internet, these techniques help men find their strengths, maintain their masculinity, and learn to guide, nurture, and discipline with love and responsibility. Instead of thinking of fathers as deficient, the book emphasizes finding fathers’strengths and potentials for growth. It also respects the diversity of parenting styles among fathers from various ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds.No man wants to be a bad father. Nevertheless, many men in our culture do not know how to care for the children they beget. Trapped by stereotypes of masculine behavior and deprived of positive role models, they find themselves trying to do the challenging work of fatherhood without the necessary resources, information, or support.Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers offers positive approaches to helping men become responsible fathers, including: designing special techniques and programs to help fathers in prison and other challenging circumstances helping fathers manage anger developing therapeutic support groups for African-American men offering Web-based support for fathers training staff to recognize and respond to fathers’unique needs finding legal tools to support fathers’rightsReaching fathers has become an ever more urgent priority for practitioners as family structure and family life change. Traditional social-service programs for mothers tend not to work well with men's very different needs and attitudes. Yet very little has been published on successful interventions with fathers. Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers fills that gap and suggests promising new directions for further research in this field. By offering positive, tested ways to help men become responsible fathers, this volume will help you improve their lives and the lives of their sons and daughters.
Homosexuality and the Family
By Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS. 1990
Disproving the notion that homosexuals are antifamily, this enlightening book details the variety of family forms in which gays and…
lesbians live and explores the effects of homosexuality on individuals in families and on the family as a whole. Little in the professional literature addresses the combined topics of homosexuality and the family, so practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students in various disciplines--counseling, gay studies, sociology, human sexuality, psychology, social work, law, and medicine--will discover a wealth of unique and useful material here. Arranged in a life history sequence that moves from adolescence to adulthood, this informative volume documents the responses of parents of gay children, wives of gay men, children of lesbian mothers, and gay fathers about their family lives.
The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection
By Susan M. Johnson. 2020
Since its original publication in 1996, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy has been the definitive guide for couple…
therapists, supervisors, and students wishing to practice emotionally focused therapy. This cutting-edge third edition addresses recent changes in the field of couple therapy, including updated research results relating to clinical interventions, expanded understandings of emotion regulation, adult attachment and neuroscience, and dynamic EFT applications for a range of issues such as depression, anxiety, sexual disorders, and PTSD. Chapters introduce micro-interventions for use in EFT couple sessions, as well as a systematic presentation of a macro set of interventions called the EFT Tango. Clinical examples are included throughout, bringing the in-session process of change alive, and two case chapters offer in-depth commentaries of Stage 1 and Stage 2 EFT sessions. Written by the leading authority on emotionally focused therapy, this third edition is an essential reference on all aspects of EFT and its uses for mental health professionals in the field of couple and marital therapy.
The Divorce Process: A Handbook for Clinicians
By Craig Everett. 1987
Professionals who work with divorcing couples and their families will be inspired by this important book on effective clinical assessment…
and intervention. The book blends a variety of expert contributions--descriptive, theoretical, and empirical--into a practical handbook that focuses on resources for dealing with the anger and pain of parting spouses and disrupted childhoods. A rich array of clinically useful materials is provided. The book covers background theory, marital interaction, the definition of clinical dysfunctions in children of divorce, specific clinical features of childhood developmental levels, post-divorce reorganization, and models of group work.
Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective
By Roni Berger. 1999
Combining theoretical, empirical, and clinical knowledge, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective contains recent research and information that will help mental health…
practitioners, family therapists, psychologists, and counselors understand the characteristics, dynamics, needs, and issues of nonclinical stepfamilies. Based on direct experiences with diverse types of stepfamilies, this book gives you new guidelines and strategies that will enable you to offer more successful sessions to your clients and improve your effectiveness as a practitioner. Developed to give you a more realistic understanding of stepfamilies, this text helps you avoid the stereotypes and false perceptions that often surround stepfamilies. Offering methods and strategies aimed at making your clients feel comfortable about themselves and their situations, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective examines several aspects of these families that you need to know in order to improve your effectiveness with them, including: the definition and description of stepfamilies and recognizing historical and social changes in the stepfamily structure critical reviews on the present knowledge of stepfamilies describing the complexity of family structure, the ambiguity of boundaries and roles, and the struggle with the diverse phases of the life cycle discussing key issues for stepfamilies, such as past orientation and acceptance/rejection of differences from non-stepfamilies and focal subsystems the profile, characteristics, and case studies of an innovative typology of stepfamilies that includes integrated families, invented families, and imported families aspects of ethnically and culturally different stepfamilies, including American stepfamilies, Israeli stepfamilies, and immigrant stepfamilies from the former Soviet Union social perceptions and attitudes of stepfamilies in schools, social services, community organizations, the media, and with the lawOffering case studies and data on a variety of families and situations, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective will show you that all stepfamilies are not the same and cannot be helped by just one practice method. Complete with principles and instruments to assess patients and the success of sessions, Stepfamilies: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective works to promote an understanding of stepfamilies that will result in effective and positive therapy for your clients.