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Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affection-even, in extreme cases, contact with them.
Backed by twenty-five years of experience in helping families, Dr. Richard Warshak presents powerful strategies for dealing with everything from tainted parent-child relationships in which children are disrespectful or reluctant to show their affection to disturbances in which children virtually disown an entire side of the family.
Divorce Poison offers advice on how to:
- Recognize early warning signs of trouble
- React if your children refuse to see you
- Respond to rude and hateful behavior
- Avoid the seven most common errors made by rejected parents
This groundbreaking work gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children and provides legal and mental-health professionals with practical advice to help their clients and ensure the welfare of children.
About the author
Dr. Richard A. Warshak is a clinical professor of psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. An international authority and consultant to parents and attorneys on divorce and parental alienation, Dr. Warshak has spoken at the White House, and his work has been featured in a PBS documentary and in media including The Early Show, Today, CNN, CTV, the New York Times, USA Today, Macleans, the London Sunday Telegraph, the Toronto Star, and Time.
Summary
"This essential resource and guide offers valuable advice, especially for those times when the going gets tough with your ex."
-Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of I'm Okay.You're a Brat!
A classic work by Dr. Richard A. Warshak, a leading authority in the field, Divorce Poison can help you protect your relationship with your children during a divorce or separation. Revised and updated, with a new introduction and afterword, Dr. Warshak's indispensable guide to preventing and overcoming parental alienation has been called, "a godsend" by Publishers Weekly and "a great book for both parents and professionals" by Henry Biller, Ph.D., author of The Father Factor. A must read in difficult times, Divorce Poison offers powerful strategies for divorcing parents when their children are caught in the emotional crossfire.
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"Always painful, divorce can turn lethal when one parent attempts to poison the children against an ex-spouse. In this balanced, compassionate book, Richard Warshak offers vital advice to those caught in the emotional maelstrom of a bitter divorce."
