Author: Dr. Janet Johnston PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 0826111270
ISBN 13: 978-0826111272
Johnston, Roseby, and Kuehnle take you behind the child's eyes, into their heads...[they] flesh out the familial context, and bring it all back into the larger social world....When you are done reading, you know who these families are, what the children need, and -- as a clinician -- how you can help them.
--Marsha Kline Pruett, PhD, MSL
Maconda Brown O'Connor Professor
Smith College School for Social Work
This book addresses problems that arise for children of conflicted and violent divorceÖ.It provides a good base for beginning to treat children in this situation as well as good information for understanding the legal and community services available."
--Doody's
The fully updated and revised edition of In the Name of the Child examines both the immediate and long-term effects of high-conflict divorce on children. By combining three decades of research with clinical experience, the authors trace the developmental problems affecting very young children through adolescence and adulthood, paying special attention to the impact of family violence and the dynamics of parental alienation.
The authors present clinical interventions that have proven to be most effective in their own clinical work with families. With a new emphasis on the need for prevention and early intervention, this edition examines how defensive strategies and symptoms of distress in children can consolidate into immutable, long-standing psychopathology in their adult lives. This book contains the policies and procedures that can preempt these high-conflict outcomes in divorcing families.
Key Features:
- Contains a new chapter examining the effects of violent divorce on a sample of young adults, tracking their developmental changes from adolescence through adulthood
- Discusses the developmental threats to both boys and girls of different ages and stages, along with therapeutic interventions and guidelines for parenting plans
- Proposes principles and criteria for decision-making about custody, visitation, and parenting plans based on individual assessment of the developing child within his or her family
Mental health professionals, educators, family lawyers, judges, and court administrators will find this book to be an essential read, with all the knowledge and insight needed to understand the short- and long-term effects of violent divorce on children."
Review
"The risk of long lasting emotional damage that parents who divorce with high conflict and violence expose their children is one of the principal problems that faces family courts today. In this book, three of the very best social scientist researchers and clinicians in the field bring together the available research and mental health and legal practices that can help the legal system address the problem. Their call for individualized, sensitive treatment for the children of high conflict and violent divorce by courts and professionals and multi disciplinary partnerships between family courts and community resources makes this book required reading for family court judges, divorce lawyers, legislators and concerned citizens. It is a major contribution to helping family courts protect the best interests of these children at risk."
--Andrew Schepard
Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Children,
Families and the Law, Hofstra University School
"A towering work of scholarship that stands alone in its wisdom and compassion for the suffering of children and their parents who are locked into seemingly unending divorce related bitter conflict with each other. Based on many years of research and painstaking reflection, the authors, who bring outstanding professional reputations to the task, offer new ways of understanding these tormented families along with new paradigms for intervention. Their proposals are firmly anchored in sophisticated clinical knowledge. They are also practicable, having been developed over many years of successful programs which have drawn on the cooperative efforts of the courts, the legal profession, and mental health practitioners."
--Judith Wallerstein, PhD
Author, What About the Kids? Raising Your Children Before , During and After Divorce
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