Press Release Summary: Adult stepfamilies can be satisfying and heartwarming when parents, adult children and grandchildren work together as a healthy and happy family unit. Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D. explains helpful strategies parents and adult stepchildren need to deal with common anger issues.
Press Release Body: Majority of available step family literature is concentrated on younger stepfamilies where couples enjoy healthy extended blended family relationships. It sounds too good to be true and in many cases it is. However, in the groundbreaking book, Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies, by Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D., provides a multitude of real and identifiable issues and problems between members of the stepfamily. To help resolve these conflicts, the book also offers effective strategies labeled as Tact and Tacking Skills..
Blended-Families.com “Ask the Expert” series has invited Grace Gabe and Jean Lipman-Blumen for an interview on Tuesday, September 30, 9 pm EST. Dr. Gave and Prof. Lipman-Blumen will explain about the Tact and Tacking Skills as effective strategies to combat the five.
Dr. Grace Gabe is Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Her lifelong interest in psychological development led to researching and writing about couples who reunite after many years of separation, which became a cover story for Psychology Today and was featured on national TV. Dr. Jean Lipman-Blumen holds the Thornton F. Bradshaw Chair in Public Policy and also serves as Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
About Blended-Families.com
Blended-Families.com, sponsor of the “Ask The Experts” series for step parents, was founded by marriage and family therapist Emily Bouchard in 2003. Emily, whose first experience as a step parent was learning to deal with two teenage stepdaughters, has a Masters in Social Work and enjoys helping step parents overcome the same hurdles she experienced. Her step parenting tips newsletter, StepHeroes, has attracted nearly 6,500 subscribers worldwide. Bouchard is the author of several ebooks including her most popular, “Conquering Conflict”. She is joined in her work at Blended-Families.com by two other experienced parenting and relationship coaches, Sheena Berg and Yvonne Kelly.
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