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Helping Children Cope with Divorce

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Wiley, Aug 8, 1997 - Family & Relationships - 240 pages
Handle children's problems at each stage of the divorce process

Realistic, age-appropriate advice for the whole family.
--Child Magazine

Helping Children Cope with Divorce is an award-winning book that helps parents handle children's problems at each stage of the divorce process. This book includes vital information such as how to minimize stress during initial breakups and ultimate separation, and how to explain divorce so children don't blame themselves. The author also offers suggestions on how to protect children from parental hostilities and to navigate conflicts of loyalty and alliance.

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Review: Helping Children Cope with Divorce, Revised and Updated Edition

User Review  - Marie - Goodreads

A wonderful book for anyone closely connected to a child or youth coping with divorce. It clarifies what we do that hurts our children, and how to not do those things. Ideally, the parents will read ... Read full review

Review: Helping Children Cope with Divorce, Revised and Updated Edition

User Review  - Jessie - Goodreads

Very clear, provides sample scripts for talking to kids. Read full review

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Contents

You Can Help Your Children Successfully Adjust
3
If Dad Left
27
Parental Conflict and Cooperation
79
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

EDWARD TEYBER a child-clinical psychologist, is professor of psychology and director of the Community Counseling Center at California State University, San Bernardino. He is the author of Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy and Helping Your Children With Divorce.

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