The International Handbook of Stepfamilies

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Written by contributors from around the world, The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments is a collection of research, legal, and clinical recommendations that fills a growing need for complex, re-formed families. Using the information in this book, which includes contemporary research and its implications, you will be able to consider stepfamilies in an international context. Understand the issues that clinicians face when they work with stepfamilies, both before and after formation, and gain more knowledge about this topic as the rates of family reformation increase.

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Jan Pryor

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"The different topics and perspecitives should be of interest to awide range of family scholars and pracitioners working withfamilies. In particular, the inclusion of clinical issues broadensthe book's appeal. The book is international in scope.... Thearticles are well written; the book is well organized. Summing up:Highly recommended. Students, reseachers, faculty,professionals." (Choice, August 2009) "...is an important contribution to the literature aboutstepfamilies and is one of the few to take an internationalperspective. I enjoyed reading this book. Overall this is a volumethat one should have on one's shelf. It provides a rich view of theresearch and scholarship on modern stepfamilies. The handbookclearly demonstrates why we need to continue to focus on thisimportant family form, as stepfamilies will be with us in growingnumbers over the next decades." (PsycCRITIQUES, 6/17/09) "This work looks at stepfamilies from many differentperspectives. Each article is well written and heavily researchedwith current article citations. This allows one to find, in aconvenient source, a wealth of information on stepfamilies thatshould generate questions for future research. This will be ofinterest to most libraries supporting studies in the family."(ARBAonline, August 2008)"The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practicein Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments, edited by JanPryor, is an important contribution to the literature aboutstepfamilies and is one of the few to take an internationalperspective. Much of the work in this area has been largely fromthe United States, and the importance of viewing these demographicchanges from a global perspective is evident in the chapters....overall this is a volume that one should have on one's shelf.It providesa rich view of the research and scholarship on modernstepfamilies." -James H. Bray, PhD, Assocaite Professor BaylorCollege of Medicine Texas, 2009 president of the AmericanPsychological Association
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