Books for Sale
The books below are available for purchase from the Stepfamily Association. All are highly recommended reading. To order any of these books please download the order form and fax or post with payment. We also have a small library of publications available for members to browse, by appointment.
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Making Molehills out of Mountains (Marg Howden)
Margaret Howden, a qualified teacher, psychologist, family therapist and founding member of the Stepfamily Association of Victoria, has distilled her extensive professional and personal experience into a practical hands on guide for parents who repartner, and stepparents. Making Molehills Out Of Mountains analyses typical behaviour within stepfamilies and reveals the underlying fears and frustrations that cause it. It aims to prepare parents and stepparents for the often dramatic changes stepfamilies experience.
Hell....p! I'm a Stepmother (Sonja Ridden)
Author Sonja Ridden, herself a step parent, experienced therapist and counsellor, begins by telling us a little of her own personal experience of being a stepmother. It is always interesting to hear another's views on a subject close in importance to one's own, and yet highlights that each of us as individuals, and each step-family's situation is unique to itself though there may be similar points of reference.
Split ends: Teenage Stepchildren (Ruth Webber)
Ruth Webber's book helps teenage stepchildren to understand stepfamily life and to find ways to make it happier. No simple solutions are given, but Webber offers ranges of options that other teenagers have tried and found worked. Teenagers are advised to give their new family a go, to allow time for things to settle down, to speak up when unhappy, to look for advantages that a stepfamily can bring, and to improve relationships with stepparents and stepsiblings.
Strengthening Your Stepfamily (Einstein & Albert)
Einstein and Albert cover the many issues stepfamilies face, comprehensively and with sensitivity. Hundreds of participants of Making Stepfamilies Work Courses have found this book useful.
Stepfamilies Stepping Ahead
Inside this easy-to-read informative book you will discover an eight-step program including: Stepfamily integration, What a stepfamily is, Myths about stepfamilies, Stepfamily stages, How stepfamilies are different.
- Stepfamily integration
- What a stepfamily is
- Myths about stepfamilies
- How stepfamilies are different
- Stepfamily stages
Produced by the Stepfamily Association of America. Found useful by thousands of Stepfamilies.
Stepfamilies - Towards a Clearer Understanding (Joy Conolly)
A comprehensive book using Australian experience. Written with warmth and understanding by Joy Conolly a Stepmother / Psychologist. This book examines the problems stepfamilies encounter and explains how people living in these situations can learn to readjust their lives and react more positively to the problems as they arise.
Balancing Act (Robin Lucas)
This is no how-to manual detailing How To Be the Perfect Stepmother. Balancing Act instead unashamedly reveals the tightrope walk that life as a stepmother can be. More like a long talk with another woman who has been there and can tell you how she survived, this entertaining and informative account will help you survive. Important areas covered include: protecting the adults' relationship; money, wills and other minefields; sex, jealousy and rivalries; stepfamily etiquette. If you signed up for a loving partnership forgetting that this included his children every day of the week or even every second weekend, this book is for you.
Leaders Manual - Making Stepfamilies Work (Stepfamily Association of Victoria)
This manual is clearly set out and easy to use. The introduction outlines information necessary for successful running of the course. Each session includes a warm up exercise, minitalks and experiential exercises to facilitate learning. Clear instructions for background reading, any specific preparation required for each session, teaching materials and handouts to photocopy are all specified.
Making Stepfamilies Work course is a new innovative course for couples either in a stepfamily or contemplating so doing. Being founded on family therapy theory the course views the stepfamily as a post modern family - one which requires new ways of being and doing. It offers opportunity for individuals to express and acknowledge their emotional response to living in a stepfamily. It offers creative solutions based on a stepfamily model rather than a biological one. The course is flexible to meet a variety of needs. It can be conducted as outlined or modified into a workshop format. Segments can be used separately: for information sessions, for running support groups or in therapeutic settings.
Special offer: Making Stepfamilies Work plus Making Molehills out of Mountains (recommended reading for participants) $99 posted anywhere in Australia (incl GST)
See also courses for information on 1 and 2 day workshops.
To order any of these books please download the order form and fax or post with payment.
