The Coparents' Communication Handbook: Answers to Your Top Twenty Questions

If you are one of the many thousands of parents in the midst of a painful separation or divorce this year, The Coparents’ Communication Handbook is your user-friendly guide to successful coparenting—and maintaining a well-adjusted two-household family.

Psychotherapists and divorce experts Susan Boyan, LMFT, and Ann Marie Termini, LPC, have taken their decades of counseling, training, and writing experience and collaborated to create an easy-to-read guide for coparents navigating the often tumultuous divorce process.

How you choose to communicate with your coparent has a significant impact on your children. This guide touches on every major aspect of interpersonal parenting interaction, including the following:

• How to develop a child-centered communication protocol
• How to minimize and negotiate parental conflict
• How to change your communication skills, your emotional reactions, and set effective limits with your coparent
• How to be sensitive to your child’s emotional needs during separation and divorce

You’ll also learn the Divorce Rules and Fair Fighting Rules for Coparents, among other resources, that offer tips to improving communication while reducing conflict.

Cooperation and communication mean putting your kids first and preserving your relationships!

Award-winning coauthors Susan Boyan, LMFT, and Ann Marie Termini, LPC, have collaborated on several books focusing on families in transition and are the founders of the Cooperative Parenting Institute.

Susan and Ann Marie have been training parenting coordinators internationally for two decades, and together they created the first comprehensive parenting coordination model. They also train family law and mental health professionals. They have conducted seminars locally, nationally, and internationally on topics including high-conflict divorce, parental alienation, interviewing children, therapeutic and supervised visitation, and time-sharing plans.

Susan and Ann Marie are renowned for their years of experience and expertise in family and divorce issues, and their accolades include the Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media Outstanding Achievement Award and clinical membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Susan and Ann Marie currently maintain a private practice and offer consulting services.