The international handbook of stepfamilies : policy and practice in legal, research, and clinical environments /

The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments considers stepfamilies from an international context with information on contemporary research and its implications.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pryor, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2008]
Series:Wiley Online Library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The demography of stepfamilies in the United States / Jay Teachman and Lucky Tedrow
  • Stereotypes of stepfamilies and stepfamily members / Stephen Claxton-Oldfield
  • Stepfamilies in France since the 1990s / Jean-François Mignot
  • The social context of emerging stepfamilies in Japan / Shinji Nozawa
  • Stepfathers in cultural context : Mexican American families in the United States / Scott Coltrane, Erika Gutierrez, and Ross D. Parke
  • Stepfathers in families / Jeremy Robertson
  • Resident mothers in stepfamilies / Marjorie Smith
  • Sibling relationships in blended families / Melinda E. Baham, Amy A. Weimer, Sanford L. Braver, and William V. Fabricius
  • Resident parent-child relationships in stepfamilies / Claire Cartwright
  • A longitudinal examination of marital processes leading to instability in remarriages and stepfamilies / Brad van Eeden-Moorefield and Kay Pasley
  • Children's appraisals of relationships in stepfamilies and first families / Katherine H. Shelton, Sasha L. Walters, and Gordon T. Harold
  • The distribution of household tasks in first-marriage families and stepfamilies across Europe / Laurent Snoeckx, Britt Dehertogh, and Dimitri Mortelmans
  • Communication in stepfamilies / Tamara D. Afifi
  • Kinship in stepfamilies / Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, and Graham Crow
  • Children's relationships with nonresident parents / Jan Pryor
  • The diversity of stepmothers / Marilyn Coleman, Jessica Troilo, and Tyler Jamison
  • Intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies / Lawrence Ganong
  • A clinician's view of "stepfamily architecture" / Patricia L. Papernow
  • Research on interventions for stepfamily couples / Sarah W. Whitton, Jan M. Nicholson and Howard J. Markman
  • The prevention and treatment of children's adjustment problems in stepfamilies / Jan M. Nicholson, Matthew R Sanders, W. Kim Halford, Maddy Phillips, and Sarah W. Whitton
  • Legal structures and re-formed families / Bill Atkin
  • How relevant are U.S. family and probate laws to stepfamilies? / Sarah E.C. Malia
  • Where to from here? Stepfamilies and the future / Jan Pryor.