Stepparenting Creating and Recreating Families in America Today

Stepparenting: Creating and RecreatingFamilies in America Today is a comprehensive exploration of the process of reconstructing families. More specifically, it is a book about the perils and promise of stepparenting, a caretaking role that may be more challenging than biologically given child rearing. Editors Stanley Cath and Moisy Shopper have taken pains to offer a balanced purview that includes both successful and maladaptive instances of stepparenting. of special note are the clinical examples throughout the book that chart the extended periods of slow, creative learning experienced by parents and children, biological and step, as they test the waters of new family systems and try to elicit newly attuned responses from each another. Stepparentingis the first comprehensive examination of its topic that is psychodynamically grounded and aimed at a broad professional readership. Invaluable for psychoanalytic therapists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, and family therapists, this book will also be profitable, timely reading for educators and social scientists studying the evolution of family life in contemporary American society.Cath, Stanley H. is the author of 'Stepparenting Creating and Recreating Families in America Today', published 2002 under ISBN 9780881631760 and ISBN 0881631760.