Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HSTLCTO | Format: EPUB
Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce Description
An internationally renowned authority on children and divorce reveals the latest research-based strategies for helping children survive and thrive before, during, and long after their parents divorce. The breakup of a family can have an enduring impact on children. But as Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this powerful book, parents can positively alter the immediate and long-term effects of divorce on their children. The key is proven, emotionally intelligent parenting strategies that promote children's emotional health, resilience, and ability to lead satisfying lives. Over the past three decades, Pedro-Carroll has worked with families in transition, conducted research, and developed and directed award- winning, court-endorsed programs that have helped thousands of families navigate divorce and its aftermath. Now she shares practical, research- based advice that helps parents:
- Gain a deeper understanding of what their children are experiencing
- Develop emotionally intelligent parenting strategies with the critical combination of boundless love and appropriate limits on behavior
- Reduce conflict with a former spouse and protect children from conflict's damaging effects
- Learn what recent brain research reveals about stress and children's developing capabilities
Putting Children First delivers a positive vision for a future of hope and healing.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 11 hours and 4 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
- Audible.com Release Date: January 10, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HSTLCTO
If you are a divorcing or separating parent who wants excellent, research based information on how to help your child or children through the divorce process and after, and you want your information in one place, this is the book for you. An added bonus - the book is written in plain English with many vignettes about real children and families. The author is a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping parents and children in separating and divorcing families. She is also a researcher so she is able to combine her research-based knowledge with decades of clinical experience working with children and their parents. I can't think of another author in the field who combines such sensitivity to children with both clinical and research expertise, and who writes so clearly. This book is outstanding.
Dr. Pedro-Carroll covers questions separating or divorcing parents often have, including how to tell the children, what kinds of time sharing plans are best for children of different ages and depending on the conflict level between the parents, how to reduce conflict with the other parent, what to look for to see if your child needs extra support, and much more. The chapters are clearly labeled so you can read the whole book or skip to the part that particularly interests you.
The book is equally informative for professionals working with children and families who are going through a separation or divorce - attorneys, mediators, mental health professionals, financial analysts and teachers. It provides a wealth of information in an accessible, concise manner.
As a psychologist who works with separating and divorcing families, I keep several copies of Putting Children First in my office.
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