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Step‐Families and the Marriage Counsellor *
Author(s) -
Harvey Les
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0156-8779
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1982.tb00145.x
Subject(s) - stepfamily , relevance (law) , psychology , family systems , developmental psychology , nuclear family , social psychology , sociology , political science , law , anthropology
Marital breakdown and the threat of it affects all members of the family. When a stepfamily is involved more people are affected. Marriage counsellors will now encounter more clients who are in stepfamilies. Stepfamily formation is different from nuclear family formation. These differences and their relevance to marriage counselling are discussed. Utilising family system, small group learning and organisational development concepts a number of tasks for the marriage counsellor and others dealing with stepfamilies are discussed.