Healthy Divorce: For Parents and Children - An Original, Clinically Proven Program for Working Through the Fourteen Stages of Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage

Healthy Divorce: For Parents and Children - An Original, Clinically Proven Program for Working Through the Fourteen Stages of Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage

by Craig Everett (Author), Craig Everett (Author)

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 DilemmaThe 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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 14 Aug 1998

ISBN 10: 0787943819
ISBN 13: 9780787943813

Media Reviews
A wise and practical guidebook for divorcing parents. There issomething useful here for any point in the process. Divorcingparents who take this book seriously will inevitably protectthemselves from much grief. (Richard A. Gardner, clinicalprofessor of child psychiatry, Columbia University, and author ofThe Boys' and Girls' Book About Divorce)

This is a solid book written by two well-respected leaders in thefield of divorce counseling and mediation. It is an excellentresource for professionals and parents alike. (Isolina Ricci, author of Mom's House, Dad's House)

At long last, a practical, informed, and sensitive guide forparents and children navigating the painful passages of separation, divorce, and remarriage. Erasing the pain is impossible, butproviding guidance through fourteen predictable stages removes theunknown and eradicates fear. (William C. Nichols, editor ofContemporary Family Therapy)

Healthy Divorce is a very valuable book, containing practicalanswers to difficult questions. (Dan Kiley, author of The PeterPan Syndrome and The WAndy Dilemma)

A usesful resource for persons whose families are touched by thedivorce process. (Journal of Family Psychotherapy)