Psychologist
Email: ppapernow@gmail.com
Phone: (508) 561-8005
Website: http://www.stepfamilyrelationships.com/
Twitter: @ppapernow1
Topics of Expertise: Step-Families
Dr. Patricia Papernow integrates over four decades of clinical practice with current research to teach all over the U.S. and the world about the challenges faced by “blended families” and what works (and doesn’t) to meet those challenges. She has published dozens of articles and many book chapters and has authored the leading books about stepfamilies: Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships: What Works and What Doesn’t, and, with Karen Bonnell, The Stepfamily Handbook: From Dating to Getting Serious to Forming a “Blended Family.”
She is now talking and writing about the intense challenges often faced by “grey recouplers” and later-life stepfamilies. Patricia is the recipient of the award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Psychology from the Society for Couple and Family Psychology (American Psychological Association) and a 2023 recipient of AFTA’s award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Practice of Family Therapy.
