Growing Up With Divorce: Helping Your Child Avoid Immediate and Later Emotional Problems - Brossura

Kalter Ph.D, Neil

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743280857 ISBN 13: 9780743280853

Casa editrice: Free Press, 2006

Riassunto

Shares down-to-earth advice for parents on how to manage children's short- and long-term emotional responses to divorce, drawing on clinical experience to cover such topics as the private fears of children, childhood anxiety, and communicating effectively and comfortingly with young people. Reprint.

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"Professor Kalter has written a wise, compassionate, and eminently practical guidebook for divorcing parents that will help them to understand and to comfort their children. This is a book that has been needed for a long time." -- Judith S. Wallerstein, Ph.D., author of The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce

"I found Growing Up With Divorce very practical and helpful for parents. In particular, I liked Kalter's developmental approach to protecting young children and adolescents. It's a very timely and helpful book." -- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., author of Touchpoints and Families: Crisis and Caring

Product Description:

In the 1990s, 40 percent of all children growing up in America will experience the often devastating impact of a parental divorce. Now, here are reassuring practical strategies for dealing with your children's varied emotional responses to the event. Using extensive examples drawn from his own clinical experience and research, Dr. Neil Kalter describes the three universal stages of divorce, and how each stage affects children in various age groups--from infancy through adolescence. Inside, Dr. Kalter gives expert advice on how to: ; ¸; Recognize the signs of emotional distress before it gets out of hand; ¸; Minimize your children's stress during a wide variety of potentially "explosive" situations--from joint custody to dating; ¸; Pinpoint and mitigate the private fears that cause your children's "acting out" at home, in school, or with friends; ¸; Communicate effectively with your child using a variety of indirect and non-threatening techniquesWritten with insight, intelligence, and compassion, Growing Up with Divorce is an indispensable resource for all parents going through a divorce and the professionals who counsel them.

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• Editore: Free Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743280857
• ISBN 13: 9780743280853
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 436