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Books of Interest

New from Dr. Amy J. L. Baker, Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind, is an important perspective on PAS. Click here or on the image to learn more and purchase the book.

Divorce Poison
Richard A. Warshak Ph.D.
In Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex, Richard A. Warshak (The Custody Revolution) offers guidance to parents whose exes portray them to their children in a negative light, whether it's mild, off-the-cuff badmouthing or systematic character assassin.

Custody Revolution Father Custody and the Motherhood Mystique
Richard A. Warshak Ph.D.
Warshak contends that the "motherhood mystique"--a widespread belief that women naturally make better parents than men and are more important to their children than fathers are--often leads courts to give custody to the mother in a divorce settlement regardless of the father's wishes or her own situation. A Texas psychologist, he argues that we must revise this outmoded way of thinking and take into greater account factors other than the parent's sex in awarding custody.

Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children From Parental Alienation
Douglas Darnall
Helps parents recognize the often subtle causes of alienation and teaches them how to prevent or minimize its damaging effects.

Custody Chaos, Personal Peace: Sharing Custody With an Ex Who's Driving You Crazy
Jeffrey P. Wittmann
This empowering guide is an inspirational roadmap for the millions of men and women navigating a rocky relationship with a former spouse while trying to maintain a healthy atmosphere for their child.

Stepwives: Ten Steps to Help Ex-Wives and Step-Mothers End the Struggle and Put the Kids First
Louise Oxhorn
Oxhorn-Ringwood and Oxhorn present a refreshing approach to solving the problems of parenting after divorce. Once bitter enemies (Louise married Lynne's ex-husband), the authors, with the assistance of psychologist Krausz, created a ten-step program called CoMamas to help ex-wives and stepmothers build a healthy relationship that puts children first.

Rebuilding: When your Relationship Ends
Bruce Fisher (Ed.D.), Robert E. Alberti (Ph.D.)
Fisher's thorough understanding and presentation of the nineteen-stage divorce recovery process is remarkable. Clearly the most widely used approach to divorce recovery, Fisher's rebuilding model has made the divorce process less traumatic, even healthier, for his readers.

The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses
John W. James, Russell Friedman
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on your capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories, as well as from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it is possible to recover and regain energy and spontaneity.

Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Child
Isolina Ricci
According to the Stepfamily Association of America, 60 percent of all families are breaking up, and custody and visitation issues loom large in the lives of many parents. Isolina Ricci's Mom's House, Dad's House guides separated, divorced, and remarried parents through the hassles and confusions of setting up a strong, working relationship with the ex-spouse in order to make two loving homes for the kids.

It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear: Osread-Together Book for Parents & Young Children During Divorce Mpt
Vicki Lansky, Jane Prince
How do you talk to your children about your divorce? How can you best handle their responses? Here's a children's book and parenting tool rolled into one. It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear is a picture book designed to be read by parents to their children. Koko Bear's parents are getting a divorce, and Koko, a preschool-aged unisex bear, isn't happy about it.

Cooperative Parenting and Divorce Parent's Guide
Susan Blyth Boyan, Ann Marie Termini
This book gives divorcing parents the power to make positive changes to shield your childen from conflict and help you establish a positive, long term relationship with your child's other parent.

What About the Kids? Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce
Judith S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee
Here with New York Times science writer Blakeslee, Wallerstein explicitly hopes to complement Dr. Spock and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton’s child rearing how-tos by showing parents how to guide children through the dissolution of a marriage.

Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex
Ross Corcoran
Joint Custody with a Jerk offers many proven communication techniques that will help you deal with your difficult ex-husband or ex-wife by describing examples of common problems and teaching you to examine your role in these sticky situations. These strategies for effective mediation are easy to apply, down-to-earth, and innovative.

The Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict after a Difficult Divorce
Elizabeth Thayer Ph.D. (Foreword)
Jeffrey Zimmerman Ph.D. (Foreword)
This book helps parents, in the aftermath of divorce, learn to sustain a healthy co-parenting relationship. “Conflict and Parenting” explores parental conflict and its effects on children, conflict resolution, and the importance of forging a co-parenting relationship.

Getting Divorced Without Ruining Your Life: A Reasoned, Practical Guide to the Legal, Emotional and Financial Ins and Outs of Negotiating a Divorce Settlement
Sam Margulies
As a leading divorce negotiator and mediator, Sam Margulies has helped thousands of couples reach fair and amicable settlements. In this compassionate guide, now updated with vital information on changes in divorce law and norms, Margulies covers the legal, financial, and emotional realities of divorce in a straightforward, reassuring style.