How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce: A Support Guide for Families, First Edition [Paperback]

Elissa P. Benedek (Author), Catherine F. Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2001

The latest information, advice, and answers from one of the nation’s leading psychiatrists

Children always suffer the most during a divorce, and parents don’t know what to say or do to help them. Drawn from more than twenty years of clinical and forensic experience, this invaluable manual gives answers to some of the most common questions on which divorced parents seek guidance, such as:

• Helping children adjust to separation and divorce
• Telling children about how the divorce will affect them
• Reassuring children that their parents will continue to love and care for them—and then just doing that
• Helping avoid many of the parenting pitfalls common after divorce
• Keeping the relationship between ex-spouses as free of conflict as possible
• Cooperating with ex-spouses on matters pertaining to the children
• Helping children feel good about themselves and grow as individuals

Editorial Reviews

Review

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

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

[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

About the Author

Elissa P. Benedek, M.D. is Director or of Research and Training at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University. Dr. Benedek has held some of the most prestigious leadership positions in her profession, including a term as only the second woman president of the American Psychiatric Association in its 153-year history. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI. Catherine F. Brown, M.Ed., has been with Psychiatric News, the newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association, since 1982.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Second Edition edition (August 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557044619
• ISBN-13: 978-1557044617
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,053,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Simple - straightforward - obvious, February 15, 2009

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This review is from: How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce: A Support Guide for Families, First Edition (Paperback)

This book sets out in the familiar US tone of self-help books on what to do and avoid saying to children involved in a divorce. It is a clear, straightforward instruction on how to behave as an adult in a stressful situation.

Being newly separated with a young child, I was hoping for some insight and guidance on childhood responses to stress and sadness.

This book provides an overview of that behaviour, and addresses the superficial responses an adult can make.

It's a simple book with straightforward assistance. If that's your bag then this book is ok.
If you are looking for more than a review of adult commonsense- although that is lacking sometimes- this is not the scholarly work you're seeking.

But to make sure, in times of mental stress, that you're still behaving as you ought, then this is a decent guide.