SURVIVING STEP-FAMILIES

An essential handbook for any step-parent

by MICHAEL CARR-GREGG

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New softcover book, published 2011, 210 pages.

Becoming a step-parent is one of the toughest journeys anyone could ever take, but the rewards can be immeasurable.  In this insightful and reassuring book, Australia's leading parenting expert Michael Carr-Greg offers practical advice on the following:

• the typical stages of step-family transition
• the particular challenges of the first two years
• how to manage conflict and build lasting relationships
• dealing with the ex
• the great 'no-nos' of step-parenting
• the essential lessons every step-parent needs to learn

Surviving Step-Families is an invaluable resource that will help to give your new family the greatest chance of success.

About the author: 

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg was educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic, researcher and he spent 4 years working as a political lobbyist. Michael is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists. He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, and the resident psychologist with Channel Nine's Today Show. He has written several books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines. He has won many awards for his work. He is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. His other books include Adolescence - A Guide for Parents, The Princess Bitchface Syndrome, Real Wired Child, Surviving Adolescents and Surviving Year 12.

Most importantly, Michael is married and has two children, supports Hawthorn in the AFL and South Sydney in the NRL. In 2000, he was the subject of a This Is Your Life program on Channel 9. He works in private practice in Melbourne.

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Surviving Step-Families by Michael Carr-Gregg