This newly revised and updated edition of the 450,000-copy bestseller on divorce recovery retains the successful "divorce process rebuilding blocks" format, adding new relationship material on adaptation, awareness, openness, and goals, making the revised 1990s model a 19-step process for putting one's life back together after divorce.
The creator of the nationally recognized Sandcastles Divorce Therapy Program--which has helped thousands of children understand divorce and cope with the emotional fallout that comes with it--now provides a practical guide to helping the one million children who must cope with divorce annually. 86 illustrations.
Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affections - even, in extreme cases, lose contact with them. The conventional advice is to do nothing, that fighting fire with fire will only result in greater ...
You may not feel like reconciling. You may not see hope for a reunion. But the biblical ideal for a separated couple is reconciliation. So how do you do it? When doors slam and angry words fly, when things just aren't working out, and even when your spouse is interested in someone else, there is hope. Hope for the Separated will show you through ...
Debbie Ford, a Workshop Facilitator at the Chopra Center for Well Being, lends a refreshing and helpful perspective to those going through divorce. Her guidebook offers exercises, meditations, and Seven Spiritual Laws to help readers get through this dark and difficult period of life.
Intelligent, insightful, and based on Abigail Trafford's personal experience, extensive research, and interviews with hundreds of divorced men and women, Crazy Time charts the emotional journey of the breakup of a marriage--identifying the common phases that lead to separation, divorce, and, eventually, to a new life.
Wallerstein's 25-year study of the effects of divorce on children, including their adolescence and young adulthood, gives a unique and vivid portrait of the divorce culture. A comparative study, it sheds light on the legacy of failed marriages: attitudes, life-choices, and behaviors that children of intact homes do not harbor. Valuable reading for ...
Named One of the 10 Best Parenting Books of the Year by Child Magazine, this revised edition teaches you to minimize stress during initial breakups and ultimate separation, explain divorce so children don't blame themselves, protect children from parental hostilities, and navigate conflicts of loyalty and alliance.
From the co-authors of the bestselling "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce" comes this groundbreaking guide for parents on how to help their children at the time of the breakup and in the many years that follow within the post-divorce and remarried family.
An internationally acclaimed social scientist and family therapist offers timely and welcome news for the millions of separated and divorced parents: in more than 50 percent of divorces today, couples succeed in preserving their families for their children. This book provides practical guidelines for raising healthy, well-adjusted children during ...
Very little is available today to help the person struggling through divorce--one of the most painful and emotionally draining experiences a man or woman can have. Growing Through Divorce offers practical guidance for anyone facing divorce. Based on first-hand accounts of formerly married people, this book can transform a person's life from an old ...
This unique book combines the compelling guidance of a renowned researcher and the sensitivity of a practicing therapist and divorced father to help parents and children emerge strong, independent, and ready to move forward.
This title offers everything you need to take charge of your divorce and get what you deserve. Divorce is overwhelming enough without having to deal with the financial, personal, and legal paperwork. When you are organized, you feel more confident, and you are more likely to get what you want. "The Divorce Organizer and Planner" is your guide to ...
Psychologist Archibald Hart asserts that divorce inevitably affects children in profound ways, but that there are specific ways divorcing parents can help them cope with the psychological and social difficulties they face.
The author of the classic "Mom's House, Dad's House," once again breaks new ground with this inspiring, upbeat, and wise family guide for all children and young adults whether they live in one home or two.
This comprehensive, complete insider's guide is filled with crucial advice from judges, lawyers, therapists, and mothers who have experienced this challenging legal process. Designed for women at every stage of divorce, the book covers a wide range of legal strategies.
This title shows how best to help your child through your divorce. "Making Divorce Easier on Your Child" is filled with practical, sensitive, and highly effective ways to help children cope and adjust both during and after this major change in their lives. Most important, this information will enable you, as a parent, to minimize the negative ...
Wallerstein's 25-year study of the effects of divorce on children, including their adolescence and young adulthood, gives a unique and vivid portrait of the divorce culture. A comparative study, it sheds light on the legacy of failed marriages: attitudes, life-choices, and behaviors that children of intact homes do not harbor. Valuable reading for ...
New research shows that in divorce situations it is often the children who suffer the most, experiencing emotional distress that can have a long-term impact no matter what the circumstances of the divorce or the age of the child at the time. Growing Up With Divorce explains how and why children are affected.
[This book] is a seamless blend of empowering legal know-how and sound psychological advice. This one-of-a-kind guide charts a smooth, practical route through the emotional perils and legal complexities of the divorce process.
A compelling new study reveals the true effects of divorce: An astonishing one quarter of adults between the ages of 18 and 35 have grown up in divorced families. Now, as this generation comes of age, "Between Two Worlds" will speak to them like no other book.
Dr. Bowlbys second pioneering volume examines the effect of separation on the development of the child and the psychopathology that often follows separation. . The experience of separation and the ensuing susceptibility to anxiety, anger, and fear constitute the flip side of the attachment phenomenon. In an authoritative new foreword to Bowlbys ...
Divorced from Joseph P. Kennedy, II in 1991 after her 12-year marriage to the youngest member of the the Kennedy clan currently holding elective office, Sheila Rauch Kennedy took primary custody of their twin boys and set about remaking her life as a single parent in the relative obscurity imposed by the confidentiality clause negotiated as part ...
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