Divorce and Co-parenting: A Support Guide for the Modern Family
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Author: Elissa P. Benedek
Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1615372202
ISBN 13: 978-1615372201
Some of the statistics are well known, if still jarring: One of two marriages contracted will end in divorce. More than a million children each year experience their parents' divorce. Other figures are less publicized: Diagnosable psychological problems occur in 30%--40% percent of individuals whose parents divorce -- a rate three times higher than that for individuals whose families remain together. Divorce and Co-parenting explores the impact of divorce on adolescents and young adults, drawing on anecdotes from the authors' own medical and law practices to illustrate how parents' decision-making can powerfully impact their children's well-being before, during, and after a divorce -- even into adulthood.
This volume, a revised edition of How to Help Your Children Overcome Your Divorce -- originally published in the 1990s -- is updated to reflect significant changes in family dynamics, technology and social media, and the matrimonial legal landscape over the past 30 years.
This guide offers new methods of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, collaborative law, and parenting coordinators, as it addresses a wide variety of family situations, such as the following: ? Uninvolved or absent noncustodial parents? Parents with mental illness? Incarcerated parents? LGBTQ parents or children? Sexually or physically abused children
Although written to be a multidisciplinary resource for professionals in many settings -- among them, psychiatrists, social workers, pediatricians, and attorneys -- Divorce and Co-Parenting is written in an accessible, easily digestible style. This makes the book applicable for parents, grandparents, teachers, and even adolescents looking for practical information on mitigating the effects of divorce on the family.
Review
Written in clear, jargon-free language, Divorce and Co-parenting: A Support Guide for the Modern Family offers a wise and practical approach to making sense of and minimizing the impact of divorce in the modern era. Dr. Benedek, an expert on families and divorce, provides parents with a clear roadmap for helping themselves and their children manage the many challenges of a breakup and its aftermath. She offers clinicians a helpful guide to intervening with children, parents, and families navigating potentially treacherous waters. The book is remarkable in the wide range of topics it usefully addresses, including such important contemporary matters as collaborative divorce, LGBT parents and children, and the role of grandparents in post-divorce families. --Joshua Ehrlich, Ph.D., Author, Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart
A terrific book it covers the full range of problems divorcing parents face, from how to tell children a divorce is coming, through the divorce process, to managing the myriad of difficulties that often follow. The book lays out sophisticated concepts in easy-to-understand language with lots of examples pulled from the authors years of professional experience. Divorced and divorcing parents will find this book full of wise advice; their children will benefit enormously when their parents follow it. Lawyers and therapists working with divorcing families should routinely recommend this book to their clients. --Peter Ash, M.D., Professor and Director, Psychiatry and Law Service, Emory University
From the Inside Flap
Diagnosable psychological problems occur in 30%--40% percent of individuals whose parents divorce -- a group that includes more than a million children each year. Divorce and Co-parenting draws on anecdotes from the authors' own medical and law practices to illustrate precisely how parents' decision-making can powerfully impact their children's well-being before, during, and after a divorce.
This volume, a revised edition of How to Help Your Children Overcome Your Divorce, is updated to reflect significant changes in family dynamics, technology and social media, and the legal landscape. It examines new methods of alternative dispute resolution, from mediation and collaborative law to parenting coordinators. Comprehensive enough to serve as a multidisciplinary resource for psychiatrists, social workers, pediatricians, attorneys, and other professionals, this guide also serves as a reference for parents, grandparents, teachers, and even adolescents looking for practical information on mitigating the effects of divorce on children and adolescents.
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