How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce

A Support Guide for Families

Author: Elissa P. Benedek
Secondary Author: Catherine F. Brown
ISBN: 1557044619

The latest information, advice, and answers from one of the nation’s leading psychiatrists Children always suffer the most during a divorce, and parents don’t know what to say or do to help them. Drawn from more than twenty years of clinical and forensic experience, this invaluable manual gives answers to some of the most common questions on which divorced parents seek guidance, such as: Helping children adjust to separation and divorceTelling children about how the divorce will affect themReassuring children that their parents will continue to love and care for them—and then just doing thatHelping avoid many of the parenting pitfalls common after divorceKeeping the relationship between ex-spouses as free of conflict as possibleCooperating with ex-spouses on matters pertaining to the childrenHelping children feel good about themselves and grow as individuals

Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Date: 2001-08-20

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Divorce & Separation, Family & Relationships / Parenting / General, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Divorce)