How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce: A Support Guide for Families - Softcover

Benedek M.D., Elissa P.; Brown, Catherine F.

9781557044617: How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce: A Support Guide for Families

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557044619 ISBN 13: 9781557044617

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001

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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 divorce
Telling children about how the divorce will affect them
Reassuring children that their parents will continue to love and care for them—and then just doing that
Helping avoid many of the parenting pitfalls common after divorce
Keeping the relationship between ex-spouses as free ofconflict as possible
Cooperating with ex-spouses on matters pertaining to the children
Helping children feel good about themselves and growas individuals

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About the Author:

Elissa P. Benedek, M.D. is Director or of Research and Training at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University. Dr. Benedek has held some of the most prestigious leadership positions in her profession, including a term as only the second woman president of the American Psychiatric Association in its 153-year history. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI. Catherine F. Brown, M.Ed., has been with Psychiatric News, the newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association, since 1982.

Review:

A major contribution...of great benefit to parents and children during and after a divorce. -- Lawrence A. Stone, M.D., President, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

A source of helpful and reassuring advice. -- Contemporary Psychology

[W]ritten in a readable but professional manner...I would highly recommend it to all parents, not only those going through divorce. -- Judith H. Gold, M.D., Past President, American College of Psychiatrists, Editor of Divorce as a Developmental Process

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