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Attachment Issues and Stepfamilies
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Sensitize yourself to the distinct emotional challenges stepfamilies face and how to help them meet their challenges to healthy development by:

  • Understanding the insider-outsider dynamics and loyalty conflicts inherent to the stepfamily experience.
  • Helping stepparents recognize the limitations of their roles in discipline and the best ways to develop one-to-one relationships with their stepchildren.
  • Learning three levels of intervention with stepfamilies: Psychoeducation, skill-building, and exploring intrapsychic issues.
  • Exploring effective strategies for handling conflicts with ex-spouses that can keep children out of the middle.
  • Mastering the “soft-hard-soft” approach to framing problems and addressing difficult issues in navigating the potential minefield of stepfamily relationships.

OBJECTIVES

  1. Describe some of the major challenges to connection and attachment created by “stepfamily architecture.”

OUTLINE

  • Misconceptions about Stepfamilies in the Media
  • First-Time Families vs. Stepfamilites
  • Athoritative Parenting
  • Adolescents Accepting Stepparents
  • Three Levels of Stepfamily Therapy
  • Dealing with the Stuck Insider and Stuck Outsider Dynamic

Richard Simon, Ph.D.

Richard Simon, PhD, was a clinical psychologist and the late editor of Psychotherapy Networker, the most topical, timely, and widely read publication in the psychotherapy field. During his career, he received every major magazine industry honor, including the National Magazine Award.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Rich Simon is the President of Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. and the editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. He is a published author and receives royalties. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Rich Simon has no relevant non-financial relationships.
 

Patricia Papernow, Ed.D.

Patricia Papernow, Ed.D., has worked as a trainer, consultant, and therapist with stepfamily relationships for more than 30 years. She’s a National Stepfamily Resource Center senior training faculty member and the author of the award-winning book Becoming a Stepfamily and Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships.


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