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Making Peace in Your Stepfamily
by Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D.
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hyperion (1993-01-04)
ISBN: 0786880171
EAN: 9780786880171
Dewy Decimal #: 306
Paperback: 320 pages
SKU: MWB209677
Condition: Fine
Comments: 0786880171 This book evidences little to no use; it is free of markings but a couple of tiny, accidental dog-ears, and the pages are clean. Its cover shows minimal shelf wear; the spine is uncreased and straight. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Here are innovative ways to defuse inevitable hostilities in blended families, cope with common fantasies of instant success, end power struggles, and encourage communication. Featuring exercises, visualizations--and a comprehensive bibliography and list of helpful organizations--this indespensable guide is both practical and compassionate.
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Customer Reviews
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Interesting and warm, but misses 4 key points.
Rating  (3)
Date: 1999-10-06
24 out of 25 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have specialized in providing professional education and therapy to divorced, courting, and re/wedded couples since 1981. I am 66, a stepgrandson, stepson, and ex-stepfather and stepbrother, an invited Board member of the Stepfamily Association of America, a contributing editor to 'Your Stepfamily Online,' and the author of six books on inner-wound-recovery, effective communications, and high-nurturance relationships and stepfamilies.
Dr. Bloomfield's book is warm, encouraging, and readable - yet misses four core hazards that (I believe) every re/married partner needs to know:
1) why and how to assess and reduce co-parents' psychological wounds from a low-nurturance childhood (vs. divorce);
2) the origin and impacts of widespread blocked grief in adults and kids, and how to spot and reduce it;
3) adult unawareness of a) normal personality formation, composition, and function; (b) keys to high-nurturance families and relationships, (c) effective communication skills, (d) healthy 3-level grief, and (e) stepfamily realities and norms and implications, and...
4) little effective re/marital and co-parenting help (i.e. courtship coaching, classes, informed counseling, co-parent support groups) available in most communities and the media.
In my clinical experience, these factors often combine to block the best-intentioned adults from following well-meant stepfamily advice like Dr. Bloomfield's. If ignored, the factors inexorably promote needy partners choosing the wrong people to re/wed, for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time - and subsequent stresses and eventual re/divorce. Awareness, acceptance, and discussion of these (and related) factors can reduce three of these stressors, and help to achieve "Peace in Your Stepfamily."
For suggestions on how to choose practical (useful) books on remarriage, co-parenting, and stepfamilies, see this:
http://sfhelp.org/11/choose_bks.htm
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