How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce

How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce provides the latest information on helping divorced parents raise their children to be happy, well-adjusted individuals. Written by one of the most respected experts in child and forensic psychiatry, the book offers parents practical, direct advice, with numerous case examples to illustrate specifics. It includes information on support groups and other organizations that divorced parents may find helpful, and it answers some of the most common questions on which divorced parents seek guidance. This book is your guide to helping your children adjust to your separation and divorce, telling your children about how the divorce will affect them, reassuring your children that you will continue to love and care for them - and then doing just that, helping you avoid many of the parenting pitfalls common after divorce, keeping your relationship with your ex-spouse as free of conflict as possible, cooperating with your ex-spouse on matters pertaining to the children, helping your children feel good about themselves and grow as individuals, and helping your children obtain help and guidance from other people.