The Everything Parent's Guide To Children And Divorce
Reassuring Advice to Help Your Family Adjust
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2005
304 pages
978-1-4405-2343-4 (ISBN)
Description
For parents, the hardest part of divorce is how it affects the kids. How do you explain to your child the reasons for choosing to divorce your spouse? How do you avoid creating feelings of guilt or blame, and let them know they are not responsible for the decision? The Everything Parent's Guide to Children and Divorce, written by expert author, psychologist, and child of divorce Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D., provides you with the support you need to prepare your children for this adjustment.
This insightful handbook advises you on:
This insightful handbook advises you on:
- Communicating openly about divorce
- Supporting your child emotionally
- Running a single-parent family
- Anticipating problem behaviors
- Helping your child feel comfortable at school and with friends
- Preventing your child from "acting out"
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The Everything Parent's Guide to Children and Divorce
Reassuring Advice to Help Your Family Adjust
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: How Marriage Ends Is How Divorce Begins
- CHAPTER 2: Divorce Is Family Change
- CHAPTER 3: Clarifying the Demands of Change
- CHAPTER 4: The Process of Divorce
- CHAPTER 5: Getting Communication in Working Order
- CHAPTER 6: Childhood and Divorce
- CHAPTER 7: Adolescence and Divorce
- CHAPTER 8: Divorce and Stages of Adolescence
- CHAPTER 9: The Only Child and Divorce
- CHAPTER 10: Establishing the Single-Parent Family
- CHAPTER 11: Establishing Discipline
- CHAPTER 12: Strategies for Discipline
- CHAPTER 13: Stress and the Single Parent
- CHAPTER 14: The Importance of Support
- CHAPTER 15: Managing Education
- CHAPTER 16: Sex-Role Influence of the Single Parent
- CHAPTER 17: Sex-Role Influence Traps to Beware
- CHAPTER 18: Relationship with One's Ex-Spouse
- CHAPTER 19: Two-Household Family Living
- CHAPTER 20: Giving Marriage Another Try
- APPENDIX A: Helpful Web Sites
- APPENDIX B: Further Reading
- APPENDIX C: Helpful Support Groups
