Making Healthy Families Book and Workbook • Characteristics of healthy families • Communication and problem solving • Making healthy stepfamilies • How to choose a marriage counselor • Rebuilding relationship after an affair • I feel like I am losing my... sex drive • Is divorce always damaging to children? • What is Good Enough Parenting? Free Online Seminars * Communication and Problem Solving * Promoting Healthy Family Relationships * Questions every parent should ask before having a baby Making Healthy Families Shadow and Light Publishers. 264 pp., paperback. $23.95 available through amazon and on our website. Making Healthy Families explains the elements required to make and sustain healthy, functional families. This timely book describes the family life stages, from "Becoming a Couple," to "Becoming Parents," to "Raising Adolescents" and "Launching Children." It educates about the predictable stresses of each stage of development, and offers guidelines and hands-on exercises for achieving a healthy adjustment in each stage of family life. A chapter on “Trouble Shooting” offers couples an opportunity to plot their own predictable stress points on the family journey, thereby allowing them to better master their particular life struggles. A chapter on “Divorce: Crisis and Transformation” offers advice to parents for helping their children and themselves through trying times. A chapter on “Stepfamilies” provides wisdom about the stages of stepfamily development that make remarriage rewarding, helping families avoid the pitfalls that cause over half of second marriages to fail. Learn what makes families work—from structure and communication to family style and characteristics of healthy marital relationships. Cutting edge research is enlivened through real-life questions about marriage, family, and parenting that have been answered by Dr. Peterson on her “Ask Dr. Gayle” column. Review: "Peterson covers all stages of the family unit from becoming a couple to raising teenagers in order to help parents understand and efficiently negotiate the normal, varied stages of the family life cycle. Of special value is a chapter on troubleshooting tips to help parents anticipate their own predictable stress points on the family life cycle. Making Healthy Families is highly recommended for parents at all stages of parenthood, marriage and family counselors, as well as students of psychology." _____ - Wisconsin Book Watch, March 2000 What Readers are Saying: "Your assessment of the situation was right on target. Thank you for the practical and meaningful advice." -Peg "Your advice column is really terrific. The stepfamily and divorce articles are helping me a lot!" -Ann "Congratulations on the wonderful job you are doing on the web. I have been following your responses to the many questions people ask you and I think that your answers are intelligent and wise. I am learning so much!” -Adriana

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