Stepfamily Dynamics | Shaun Gibbons | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Five vignettes are shown and each one illustrates a different situation in stepfamily life. The purpose of the vignettes is to increase the awareness of the complex interactions in the contemporary stepfamily and this video is a useful educational or counselling aid for stepfamily couples

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Credits

co-director

Jane Keehn

Justine Anderson

Paul Van Dacon

Shaun Gibbons

Velissa Cheers

producer

Robert Ketton

Duration

00:27:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

323775

Language

English

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Counseling

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Counseling

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Counseling

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic (low band); Access Print (Section 1)

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If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/77810--stepfamily-dynamics/ |title=Stepfamily Dynamics |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=24 January 2025 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}