While most sessions at Smart Marriages will help in your work
with Stepfamilies - i.e, the skills-based and parenting curricula,
workshops on violence, substance abuse, money, infidelity, sex - those listed
below are specifically targeted for work with remarried, stepfamily couples.
902 One Day - Sunday, July 6 - (not recorded)
Stepping Together: Smart Steps for Stepfamilies
Francesca Adler-Baeder, PhD, CFLE
Learn to teach a research validated, 6-week (12 hr) course that equips parents and their
children with the complete package of skills, behaviors and understandings necessary for
creating successful stepfamilies. Children/adolescents and parents meet in parallel groups. Participants
will be qualified to teach the program in churches, agencies, and community settings with diverse families.
$50 spouse discount. Click for more information:http://www.smartmarriages.com/smartsteps.html
Each of the sessions listed below will be recorded live at the
12th Annual 2008 Smart Marriages Conference and will available
immediately following the conference on
CD or MP3 at 800-241-7785 or at
http://www.iplaybacksmartmarriages.com
CDs $15 each or order 12 or more and they're $12.50 each.
Downloads are $9.95 each (no shipping!)
209
Active Parenting in Stepfamilies – TOOB
Michael Popkin, PhD, Elizabeth Einstein, MA
Teach the 5 keys to effective stepparenting, how to
handle the predictable challenges that include loss,
loyalty, & discipline, and how these proven skills will
strengthen the marital bond.
309
Smart Steps for Stepfamilies – TOOB
Francesca Adler-Baeder, PhD, CFLE
Learn key strategies to supplement any marriage
education program or create a stand-alone class for stepcouples
and children. Information for work with ethnic minorities.
311
Money Habitudes: The Last Taboo – TOOB
Syble Solomon, MEd
Use a unique card deck to give couples life-changing
insights into their hidden attitudes about money. Teach
groups, use with individual couples, or add to any marriage program.
312
1-2-3 Magic
Tom Phelan, PhD
Teach parents easy-to-follow steps for disciplining
kids ages 2-12 without arguing, yelling or spanking
and when – and how – silence can speak louder than words.
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409
The Stepfamily Journey: Not for Wimps
Elizabeth Einstein, MA
Learn to provide couples with a trail map to master stepfamily
developmental tasks. Understand emotional baggage, bonding,
loyalty, and discipline.
411
Children in the Middle – TOOB
Don Gordon, PhD
Use this award-winning online divorce education program to
maximize community divorce prevention efforts. Plus how
to recruit parents in failing marriages and form partnerships
with pastors, schools, physicians.
412
Genograms – TOOB
Rita DeMaria, PhD
Easy-to-use tools explore family patterns (cut-offs,
legacies, addictions, etc.) that influence relationships
plus 5 exercises to strengthen love and commitment.
416
Between Two Worlds
Elizabeth Marquardt, MDiv
Even in the best divorces, kids live divided lives in
which they struggle to understand their parents'
behavior, negotiate tangled family systems, and
develop values and beliefs.
502
Couples: The Strongest Link
George Doub, MDiv, Ana Morante, MFT
The best tools from decades of Family Wellness work with at-risk
families, applied to helping couples feed their romance, be playful,
and get the most out of marriage & family life.
609
Stepcouples: Me or the Kids?? – TOOB
Carri Taylor, Gordon Taylor, MFT
After the fantasy of courtship, reality sets in – delivered
by the kids, ex-spouses, money, and ‘no time for us’.
Teach couples to master the challenges and reclaim the territory.
615
The Challenge of Getting it Right
Barry McCarthy, PhD
Whether it's the first or a subsequent marriage, it takes
more than luck, love or finding your soulmate to get it right.
Help newlyweds master the crucial tasks of the first years of
marriage – or, remarriage.
705
Taming the Tempest: Learning Emotional Regulation
Rob Scuka, PhD
Teach couples to contract in advance about how they
will manage spontaneously erupting, out-of-control conflict,
and emotional flooding using RE skills of empathy, disengagement
and self-calming.
709
Teenage Stepkids
Elizabeth Einstein, MA
Stepfamily adjustment is hardest for teens – and, their parents!
Learn to work with their developmental double binds around
autonomy and bonding – all liberally sprinkled with hormones.
710
When Parents Hurt
Joshua Coleman, PhD
It’s hard to be happy, or happily married, when you're feeling
unloved/unappreciated by your adult children. Help parents
learn how to improve communication, manage conflict, and
rebuild family intimacy.
809
Remarriage Prep: The Second Time Around - TOOB
Carri and Gordon Taylor, MA, MFT
Learn how to identify your non-negotiables – often
overlooked in courtship – and the ten key steps to
the development of intimacy & trust, both so crucial
to the success of any remarriage.
812
Surviving Your Adolescents: 13 - 18 Year Olds
Tom Phelan, PhD
There are times you must keep quiet as they push
toward independence and times you must take charge.
This step-by-step approach will help end the hassles.
Single parents & stepparents also welcome.
813
Children of Divorce: Change Your Odds
Beverly Rodgers, PhD, Tom Rodgers, PhD
According to research, children of divorce are less likely
to marry, and if and when they do, face higher divorce rates.
Learn important steps to change the odds.
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