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

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

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.