Help for Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love (CCEF Minibook) (1018885373999)

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  • Cover Type:
  • 24 Pages
  • Publisher: New Growth Press
  • Publication Date: Published: July 2008
  • ISBN: FRCB_CCEF_HELPFORSTEPFAMILIESA_9781934885307

Help for Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love (CCEF Minibook)

Smith, Winston T.

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How do you blend two separate families into one house-hold? Family traditions, values, interests, and parenting styles are often so far apart that simple questions like, "Who takes out the trash?" or "Where shall we go for Christmas?" can quickly become flashpoints of conflict.

Winston T. Smith provides a road map to the unique challenges that each member of a stepfamily faces. Drawing on his experience as a marriage and family counselor, Winston Smith shows how understanding each other's struggles, honest sharing, and sacrificial love can transform and unify your stepfamily. As you learn to practically apply these biblical principles, you will find that there are also unique blessings to be found in your new, blended family.

Winston T. Smith is the director of counseling at CCEF, a faculty member, a lecturer of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and has been counseling for almost 15 years. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, where he is also in the process of attaining a Doctor of Ministry degree. He is also concurrently pursuing a Master of Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family degree from Chestnut Hill College. Winston is the author of the mini-book entitled Rest, and is currently working on a book on marriage. Winston has been married to his wife, Kim, for sixteen years and has a son and two daughters. Winston enjoys reading, exercise and fitness, and martial arts. Areas of interest/experience: Marriage and family, depression and anxiety.

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How do you blend two separate families into one house-hold? Family traditions, values, interests, and parenting styles are often so far apart that simple questions like, "Who takes out the trash?" or "Where shall we go for Christmas?" can quickly become flashpoints of conflict.

Winston T. Smith provides a road map to the unique challenges that each member of a stepfamily faces. Drawing on his experience as a marriage and family counselor, Winston Smith shows how understanding each other's struggles, honest sharing, and sacrificial love can transform and unify your stepfamily. As you learn to practically apply these biblical principles, you will find that there are also unique blessings to be found in your new, blended family.

Winston T. Smith is the director of counseling at CCEF, a faculty member, a lecturer of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and has been counseling for almost 15 years. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, where he is also in the process of attaining a Doctor of Ministry degree. He is also concurrently pursuing a Master of Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family degree from Chestnut Hill College. Winston is the author of the mini-book entitled Rest, and is currently working on a book on marriage. Winston has been married to his wife, Kim, for sixteen years and has a son and two daughters. Winston enjoys reading, exercise and fitness, and martial arts. Areas of interest/experience: Marriage and family, depression and anxiety.

  • Cover Type:
  • 24 Pages
  • Publisher: New Growth Press
  • Publication Date: Published: July 2008
  • ISBN: FRCB_CCEF_HELPFORSTEPFAMILIESA_9781934885307