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Jones, W., Papernow, P., Browning, S., Kenney, K., & Kenney, M. (2022). Couple instability: Fragile families, stepfamilies, families with a child on the autism spectrum, and multiracial families (clinical applications). In S. Browning & B. van Eeden-Moorefield (Eds.), Treating contemporary families: Toward a more inclusive clinical practice. American Psychological Association. 

Papernow, P.L. (2021). Helping queer stepfamilies meet their challenges. In M. Murphy & R.  Harvey(Eds.).  Handbook of LGBTQ-affirmative couple and family therapy (2nd edition). New York: Routledge.

Bonnell, K., & Papernow, P.  (2019). The Stepfamily Handbook: From Dating to Getting Serious, to Becoming a “Blended Family.”  CMC Press

Papernow, P.L. (2019). Ask the experts: A baker’s dozen tips for parenting, stepparenting, and discipline in stepfamilies. Association of Family and Conciliation Courts eNews, 14(6).

Papernow, P.L. (2018). Therapy with clients in stepfamily relationships: What individual, couple, child, and family therapists need to know. Family Process, 57(1), 25-51. doi: 10.1111/famp.12321 . German translation: Klinische richtlijnen voor therapie met samengestelde gezinnen: wat therapeuten moeten weten doi: 10.1007/s12440-019-0090-3

Papernow, P.L. (2018). Recoupling in mid-life and beyond: From love at last to not so fast. Family Process, 57(1), 52-69. doi: 10.1111/famp12315 Translated into Spanish.

Papernow, P.L. (2016). Therapy with stepfamilies. In S. Browning  & M. Accordini (Eds.). Famiglie ricomposte: approcci clinici ed evidenze diricerca (Stepfamilies:Clinical approaches and research evidence. Monica Accordini, Trans.). Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli.

Papernow, P.L. (2016). The remarriage triangle: Working with later-life recouplers and their grown children. Psychotherapy Networker, January/February 2016, pp. 49-53.

Papernow, P.L. (2016). Suteppufamuli tokuyuu no rinshoute kikadai: Rinshouka gashitteokubekikoto  [The unique clinical issues of stepfamilies: What therapists need to know] ( M. Onishi, Trans.). Kazokuryouhou kenkyu [Japanese Journal of Family Therapy].

Papernow, P.L. (2016). How to manage the biggest threat to happiness for remarried boomers: Helping partners deal with the corrosive power of stepfamilies. Psychotherapy Networker Week in Review, July 11, 2016.  Video: How to Manage the Biggest Threat to Happiness

Papernow, P.L. (2016). Soft/hard/soft communication.  In G.R. Weeks, S.T. Fife, & C.M.Peterson (Eds.), Techniques for the couple therapist: Essential interventions from the experts. New York: Routledge.

Papernow, P.L. (2016). Empathic joining. In G.R. Weeks, S.T. Fife, & C.M. Peterson (Eds.) Techniques for the couple therapist: Essential interventions from the experts. New York: Routledge.

Papernow, P.L. (2016). Suteppufamili tokuyuu no rinnshoutekikadai: Rinnshouka gashitteokubekikoto. Kazokuryouhou Kennkyuu (M. Onishi, Translator). [The unique clinical issues of stepfamilies: What therapists need to know. Japanese Journal of Family Therapy.]

Papernow, P.L. (2015).  Suteppu famiri wo ikani iki, hagukumuka: Umakuikukotoikanaikoto. [Surviving and thriving in stepfamily relationships: What works and what doesn’t.] (S. Nakamura, M Ohnishi, & Y. Yoshikawa, Translators). Tokyo: Kongo Shuppan.

Papernow, P.L. (2015).  Introduction to the Japanese translation: What is similar and what is different about Japanese stepfamilies? In Surviving and thriving in stepfamily relationships: What works and what doesn’t.  S. Nakamura, M. Ohnishi, & Y. Yoshikawa (Translators). Tokyo: Kongo Shuppan, (pp. iii-ix).

Papernow, P.L. (2015).  Therapy with couples in stepfamilies.  In A. Gurman, J. Lebow and D. Snyder (Eds.),  Clinical handbook of couple therapy, fifth edition (pp. 467-488). New York: Guilford.

Papernow, P.L. (2015). Uncoupling and recoupling over 50 in The Dilemmas of Divorce Series, Networker Symposium Webcast http://dilemmasofdivorce.kajabi.com/sp/38213-sales-page

Papernow, P.L. (March, 2014).  Providing evidence-based help to stepfamilies. Brown University Child and Behavior Letter, 30(3), ISSN 1058-1073.  Online ISSN 1556-7575

Papernow, P.L. (2013).  Surviving and thriving in stepfamily relationships: What works and what woesn’t. New York: Routledge.

Papernow, P.L. (2008).  A clinician’s view of “stepfamily architecture.”  In J. Pryor (Ed.), The international handbook of stepfamilies: Policy and practice in legal, research, and  clinical environments (pp. 423-454). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.

Papernow, P. L. (2008).  Therapy for people who live in stepfamilies.  In Clinical updates for family therapists: Research and treatment approaches for issues affecting  today’s families, Volume 3  (pp. 107-122).  Alexandria, VA: American Association of  Marriage and Family Therapists

Papernow, P.L. (2002). Post-divorce parenting: A Baker’s dozen of suggestions for protecting the family. Family Mediation Quarterly, 1(2), 6-10.

Papernow, P.L. (1995).  What’s going on here? Separating (and weaving together) step and  clinical issues in remarried families.  In D. K. Huntley (Ed.), Understanding  stepfamilies: Implications for assessment and treatment (pp. 3-24).  Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Papernow, P.L. (1994). Therapy with remarried couples. In P.Backman and G. Wheeler  (Eds.), On Intimate ground: A gestalt approach to working with couples  (pp.128-165). New York: Jossey-Bass

Papernow, P.L. (1993). Becoming a stepfamily: Patterns of development in remarried families. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Papernow, P.L. (1993). La Therapie gestaltiste avec des families reconstituees. Gestalt: Revue de la Societe Francaise de Gestalt. Families en Gestalt-therapie, numero 4, Automne. 

Papernow, P.L. (1988) Stepparent role development: From outsider to intimate.  In W. Beer  (Ed.), Relative strangers: Studies of stepfamily processes  (pp. 54-82). Totowa, N.J.:  Rowman & Littlefield.

Papernow, P.L. (1987).  Thickening the “middle ground”: Dilemmas and vulnerabilities of remarried couples. Psychotherapy, 24(3S), 630-639.

Papernow, P.L. (1984). The stepfamily cycle: An experiential model of stepfamily development.  Family Relations, 33(3), 355-363.

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