Not on Speaking Terms: Clinical Strategies to Resolve Family and Friendship Cutoffs

Whether the result of miscommunication, betrayal, abandonment, or matters of principle, relationship breaks-children from parents, friends from one another and intergenerational-are common gut-wrenching experiences that often go unrecognised in therapy. Here, therapists learn how to pinpoint the causes of cutoffs, guide reconciliation and help clients who cannot find resolution heal without reconnection.