Beyond Divorce Casualties: Reunifying the Alienated Family

by Darnall, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9781589794153
• ISBN10: 158979415X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-16
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

The companion to Douglas Darnall's best-selling Divorce Casualties, Beyond Divorce Casualties is a workbook for severely alienated children and their parents. The book describes the how and why of unification therapy, how to prepare for reunification, how to effectively work with attorneys, mediators, parent coordinators and counselors, and even how to say "goodbye" if reunification is not possible. This book also provides many real-life examples of alienating behavior, exercises, and specific instructions for how to change your feelings and behavior. Most important, the book's underlying assumption is that you have the power to change even if you have no power to change the other parent. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Douglas Darnall, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and CEO of PsyCare, Inc., with nine outpatient mental health clinics in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. He is internationally recognized as an expert on parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
A New Beginning	p. 1
The Alienating Cycle	p. 15
Motivation for Change	p. 27
Obstacles to Change: Symbolic Communication	p. 43
Obstacles to Change: Blaming	p. 63
Obstacles to Change: Theorizing	p. 71
Setting the Stage for Reunification	p. 77
Parent/Child Reunification Therapy	p. 91
Reunification	p. 113
Spontaneous Reunification	p. 155
Other Issues	p. 169
When All Else Fails: Seeking a Change in Custody	p. 187
Postscript	p. 201
Appendix: Parental Alienation Inventory	p. 203
References	p. 205
Index	p. 211
About the Author	p. 219
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