Making Peace With Your Adult Children: A Guide to Family Healing - Softcover

Smith, Shauna L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060975253 ISBN 13: 9780060975258

Publisher: Perennial, 1993

Synopsis

A guide to healing families offers a compassionate game plan for parents and adult children to confront old hurts and begin the healing process. By Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal and Allies in Healing.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"In the masses of literature available today, this is the book that speaks first and foremost to the healing of relationships between parents and adult children." --Claudia Black, Ph.D., author of It Will Never Happen to Me "Shauna Smith provides the wisdom for helping to attain meaningful parent-children relationships, from mid-life and beyond...a book that really can change lives for the better." --Leo Janos, former correspondent, Time Magazine

From the Back Cover:

Recognizing that no matter what our age we still want and need the love, understanding, and acceptance of our parents, Shauna Smith shows parents how to go beyond old patterns of blame and defensiveness and communicate more effectively and honestly. With sensitive insight, practical advice, innovative exercises, and numerous sample letters and conversations, Smith teaches parents how to be supportive of their adult children without forfeiting their own needs or self-respect in the process. For all families seeking to heal the conflicts that are keeping them apart, Making Peace With Your Adult Children is an invaluable resource. "Making Peace With Your Adult Children fills a crucial gap in the literature of healing and recovery. It is a sensitive, caring guide for parents who want to heal the painful rifts between them and their adult children." -- Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal "This book is a great contribution to the field. Shauna Smith provides a creative balance between the revelation of pain which needs to be overcome and the offering of sound guidance for healing."-- Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D., cofounder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060975253
• ISBN 13: 9780060975258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376