Healthy Divorce: For Parents and Children--An Original, Clinically Proven Program for Working Through the Fourteen Stages of Separation, Divorce, and ... BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES) - Hardcover

Everett, Craig; Everett, Sandra Volgy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555426727 ISBN 13: 9781555426729

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Solutions for negotiating one of life's most difficult events

Healthy Divorce is a very valuable book, containing practical answers to difficult questions.
--Dan Kiley, author of The Peter Pan Syndrome and The WAndy Dilemma

The authors have devoted their careers to counseling divorcing families. In this encouraging book, they outline the fourteen stages of divorces and offer families practical advice and solutions for negotiating one of life's most difficult events. With sensitivity and sensibility they explain how to recognize the different stages of the divorce; what to expect during each phase; and how to deal with the predictable patterns of the divorce process.

Healthy Divorce explores ways of confronting such tough issues as how to tell your children you're getting a divorce; how to plan a separation; and how to cope with your feelings of anger, grief, and abandonment. The authors offer practical advice on using mediation as an alternative to the adversarial court battle; co-parenting to maintain stability for the children after the divorce; and organizing and structuring a happy blAnded family.

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From the Back Cover:

What about the kids?
How can I be sure getting a divorce is the right thing to do?
Should we stay together until the divorce is final?

These and other questions are answered in this compassionate guide. The authors? original step-by-step process helps families, therapists, and counselors craft a responsible, deliberate divorce process that targets the emotional well-being of both parents and children.

"A wise and practical guidebook for divorcing parents. There is something useful here for any point in the process. Divorcing parents who take this book seriously will inevitably protect themselves from much grief."?Richard A. Gardner, clinical professor of child psychiatry, Columbia University, and author of The Boys' and Girls' Book About Divorce

"This is a solid book written by two well-respected leaders in the field of divorce counseling and mediation. It is an excellent resource for professionals and parents alike."?Isolina Ricci, author of Mom's House, Dad's House

"At long last, a practical, informed, and sensitive guide for parents and children navigating the painful passages of separation, divorce, and remarriage. Erasing the pain is impossible, but providing guidance through fourteen predictable stages removes the unknown and eradicates fear." ?William C. Nichols, editor of Contemporary Family Therapy

"Healthy Divorce is a very valuable book, containing practical answers to difficult questions."?Dan Kiley, author of The Peter Pan Syndrome and The Wendy Dilemma

From Library Journal:

This guide for perplexed partners bears the stamp of authority and the touch of good therapists: the husband-and-wife authors combine 45 years of professional experience in family therapy and court-related work. From preseparation all the way to remarriage, the Everetts detail 14 stages such as easing the way for children, dividing property, establishing boundaries (privacy), and coparenting after divorce. Placing the emphasis, appropriately, on couples with children, the authors are clear and concise, offering lists to organize tasks at successive stages. Case illustrations help, as do lists of questions commonly asked by parents and children. A model mediated divorce agreement and list of books and organizations close the book (though the suggested reading inexplicably leaves out Abigail Trafford's Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce, HarperCollins, 1992. rev. ed.). Though, like their book's title, the Everetts sometimes overstate the positive, their guide is essential for most collections.
E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1555426727
• ISBN 13: 9781555426729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208