 Helping Your
Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
M. Gary Neuman, LMHC
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This warm, empathetic guide shows
you:
- How to build a co-parenting relationship - even when you think you can't
- When you or your child should see a therapist
- Age-appropriate scripts for addressing sensitive issues
- What to do when a parent moves away
- How to stop fighting with your ex-spouse
- How to navigate the emotional turmoil of custody and visitation
- How to help your child deal with change
- How to cope with kids' common fears about separation
- How to introduce significant others into the family and help your child cope with a new stepfamily
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 Crazy Time :
Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life, Revised
Edition
Abigail
Trafford
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There is nothing easy about the
breakup of a marriage, from coping with loss and failure
to dealing with the uncertainly of the future. Abigail
Trafford charts this emotional journey, identifying
the common phases in the evolution from marriage to
separation to divorce, and eventually to a new life.
Based upon her personal experience, extensive research,
and interviews with hundreds of divorced men and women.
Trafford offers individuals a better understanding
of their own experiences and the message that they
are not alone in their pain and confusion. Crazy Time
is also an investment in the future – Trafford
reveals the telltale signs of a marriage in crisis,
and discusses what determines whether a relationship
will survive over time.
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 For Better or
For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered
E.
Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly
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| For Better or For Worse presents
a radically new story about the nature and consequences
of divorce in America today. Debunking popular wisdom
on the devastating psychological and social effects of
divorce, this new story replaces the fiction with the
facts derived from eminent psychologist E. Mavis Hetherington’s
landmark study. After nearly three decades of research
involving 1400 families, Hetherington puts forth a more
nuanced picture of marital breakup – not as a momentary
event but as a life process that has a continuing influence
throughout the stages of divorce, single parenthood,
remarriage, and stepfamily life; and in diverse interpersonal
contexts: with partners, children, stepchildren, and
eventually in the adult relationships of the children
themselves, For Better or For Worse offers readers an
important first step in recognizing the obstacles they
are likely to encounter and the choices they must make,
so that the pathway out of divorce need not be one of
dissolution but one of healing and ultimate fulfillment. |
 The Unexpected
Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study
Judith
S. Wallerstein, Julia M. Lewis, Sandra Blakeslee
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If you grew up as a child of divorce,
you may find yourself asking: Why am I so afraid of
conflict? Why do I have such a fear of commitment?
Why am I always waiting for the “other shoe to
drop,” even at moments of success? You may be
surprised to discover how common these feelings are
for children of divorce, especially as they get older.
Dr. Judith Wallerstein has been studying the effects
of divorce on children for 25 years, but even she wasn’t
expecting the findings presented here: that while children
learn to cope with divorce, its greatest effects don’t
emerge until adulthood.
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 What About the Kids? Raising
Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce
Judith
S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee
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How can you genuinely protect
your children during and after divorce? Renowned child
psychologist
Judith Wallerstin has spent most of her career studying
children and divorce, and she answers this important
question based on thirty years of in-depth interviews
with children of divorce and their parents. With sections
devoted to various ages of children and their particular
issues, you’ll find out:
- How to prepare your children
for the breakup before it happens
- The worst time
to divorce
- How to be co-parents outside of marriage
- How to
carry on the conversation about divorce through
the years
- How to choose the best custody for your
children
And much more, as well as valuable information
about being a terrific single parent, approaching
remarriage, and healthy step-parenting. |
 The Two Roads to Divorce
Lenard Marlow
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| Divorce is never easy. On the contrary,
it is one of the most difficult experiences that anyone
will ever be faced with in his or her life. It will test
them as few things ever have or ever will. Nevertheless,
it does not have to become the nightmare that so many
husbands and wives unwittingly make of it. It is possible
to get through it and still keep one’s life intact.
The Two Roads to Divorce shows how that is possible.
It provides the insight, understanding and wisdom, born
of years of experience, that has enabled countless numbers
of divorcing couples to do that. Its purpose is to inspire
others to believe that they can as well. |
Becoming
a Stepfamily: Patterns of Development in Remarried
Families ("Gestalt
Institute of Cleveland Book Series)
Patricia Papernow
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| What determines whether step-families
remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcome the
difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive
family units? How can mental health professionals better
support this development? This book brings both clarity
and depth to the unique and complex dynamics of remarried
families, drawing on interviews with over one hundred
stepfamily members, up-to-date research, a solid theoretical
framework, and an empathic clinical sensibility to present
an insightful model of stepfamily development, the Stepfamily
Cycle. |
 How To Win As A Stepfamily
Emily B.
Visher, PhD, John S. Visher, MD
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This extraordinary guide has already
helped over 75,000 families confront the tough challenges
that blended family life presents. Now revised and
expanded, it offers even more in-depth discussions
of all the vital
questions that arise during the adjustment process – from
premarriage to remarriage - including:
- How do you handle
a child’s anger over your
decision to remarry?
- How do you integrate both sets
of relatives into your wedding ceremony?
- How do
you cope with disciplining older stepchildren?
- How
do your ex-spouse’s parents fit into
the grandparenting picture?
- How do you and your
new spouse negotiate differences in child rearing
philosophy?
- How do you avoid playing favorites with
your biological children?
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 Stepcoupling : Creating and Sustaining
a Strong Marriage in Today's Blended Family
Susan Wisdom,
LPC, Jennifer Green
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Tips and strategies on dealing with
the issues remarried couples face, with a wealth of advice
from real-life stepcouples, such as:
- Learning to tailor
your expectations of your spouse or children and
remembering that no family is perfect
- Knowing where
your boundaries are, whether involving a hostile
ex-spouse or a stepchild who demands
too much attention
- Realizing that traits like flexibility, tolerance,
forgiveness, and openness are especially essential
in a stepfamily
situation
- Making “us” time for talking,
problem-solving, weekends away, and enjoying
your marriage to
constantly renew and strengthen your bond as a couple
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