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Running head: Blended families 0

Blended Family Counseling

Azurdee Brown

Liberty University

Abstract

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• The heading is centered on the page.

• Free of grammatical and spelling errors

• The abstract is 1 paragraph

• Number of words: 150–250 words

• Current APA format (e.g., no indentions, no citations) 5

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Blended family counseling topic rationale

Apparently, blended families are very common in the United States of America. “Different circumstances have led to many marriages joining two parents together with their respective children forming a blended family” (In Capuzzi & In Stauffer, 2015). Whenever blended families are formed, various challenges are also created. This exercise provides a rationale for blended family counseling. It also explains how blended family counseling applies in multicultural counseling.

The reason I select this topic is because I have a blended family when I remarried. I have an older step daughter who resides with me along with my two daughters.

Apparently, this topic applies in multicultural counseling in various ways. First, although my husband and I were both raised in African-American, Christian homes our parenting styles are quite different and it causes issues within our marriage. As parents to our respective children in our blended family, we have developed and incorporated varied parenting styles in our respective children based on the “different backgrounds” (Everett, 2014) in which we were raised. Secondly, I am in the military and firmly believe that if you supply children with the necessary tools for success they should be able to take those tools and use them to their advantage. My husband is a parent that I consider an enabler. He does not push his daughter to do anything outside of her comfort zone. He feels that in due time she will find her way in life while we put our lives on hold waiting. Based on the way my parents raised me, I firmly believe in raising children to become independent adults. My husband was raised to allow children to find their own way in life and hope for the best. In light of these differences, we will need multicultural counseling to understand and address the challenges we will face as a blended family.