Beyond Divorce Casualties: Reunifying the Alienated Family - Softcover

Darnall Ph.D., Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158979415X ISBN 13: 9781589794153

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The companion to Darnall's bestselling Divorce Casualties, Beyond Divorce Casualties is a workbook for severely alienated children and their parents. The book describes the how and why of unification therapy, how to prepare for reunification, how to effectively work with attorneys, mediators, parent coordinators and counselors, and even how to say "goodbye" if reunification is not possible. This book also provides many real life examples of alienating behavior, exercises, and specific instructions for how to change your feelings and behavior. Importantly, the book's underlying assumption is that you have the power to change even if you have no power to change the other parent.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Darnall, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and CEO of PsyCare, Inc. with nine outpatient mental health clinics in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. He is internationally recognized as an expert on parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome.

Reviews

Ten years after writing Divorce Casualties, psychologist Darnall follows up with an update on new research on how families can successfully reconstitute themselves after divorce. Darnall explores the severe alienation that some parents and children feel, unable to connect or maintain a sense of belonging. Darnall draws on research and his practice to offer real-life examples of behavior that has garnered a diagnosis worthy of a listing in the diagnostic manual. Alienating parents typically are angry and litigious; they resist court orders, criticize and denigrate the other parent, and believe that everything would be better if the other parent would disappear. They often have secrets with the child, which they keep from the other parent; refuse access to the child’s medical and school records; and try to block or interfere with visits. Darnall offers chilling examples of nasty behavior by divorced parents, from name-calling to false accusations of sexual abuse. He describes the cycle of alienation that some divorced families fall into, with children pushed and pulled emotionally, and how they can break the cycle. --Vanessa Bush

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158979415X
• ISBN 13: 9781589794153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224