Newmarket Press: How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce

How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce
A Support Guide for Families
by Elissa P. Benedek, M.D. and Catherine F. Brown

Paperback $15.95, published June 2001, ISBN: 978-1-55704-461-7
336 Pages
6 x 9

Childcare and Parenting

"A source of helpful and reassuring advice." -- Contemporary Psychology

Synopsis

An essential guide by a leading child psychiatrist and forensic expert -- for separated, divorcing, and divorced parents with children ages twelve and under. This book offers parents the latest information and advice, with numerous case examples, on support groups and answers to some of the most common questions on which divorced parents seek guidance. This book counsels:

how to help children adjust to separation and divorce
how to tell them the news, and reassure them of their parents' love and care for them—and how to do just that
ways to keep the relationship between ex-spouses as free of conflict as possible
how to help children feel good about themselves and grow as individuals,
and, much more.

Reviews

"A source of helpful and reassuring advice. "

Contemporary Psychology

"A major contribution...of great benefit to parents and children during and after a divorce. "

Lawrence A. Stone, M.D., President, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

"[W]ritten in a readable but professional manner...I would highly recommend it to all parents, not only those going through divorce. "

Judith H. Gold, M.D., Past President, American College of Psychiatrists, Editor of Divorce as a Developmental Process