Burnett and Green show how both parents can maintain meaningful relationships with their children after separation. The practical tools they offer, such as parenting plans, work in every party's best interests - especially the children's.
With legislation in many jurisdictions now enshrining shared parental responsibility and parenting time, the authors show separated parents how to make this work. They cite supporting research which indicated how important it is for children to continue meaningful relationships after family breakdown.
Myths and misconceptions are dealt with, together with practical advice on how parents can get past their hurt and anger and focus on approaches that will benefit their children. The authors also tackle the nuts and bolts of weekly routines and include useful suggestions on timetabling and communication between households.
Once a good shared parenting arrangement is in place, the emotional benefits reveal themselves:
- mums becoming more comfortable with sharing the children;
- dads learning to truly be with the children; and
- children being happier in shared care arrangements, and so benefiting their parents.
Solution focused practice challenges the conventional approach to bereavement counselling by emphasizing solution building over simple problem-solving. Joel Simon, with over 16 years of experience in the field, demonstrates how this therapy can help clients think of possibilities, rather than limitations, when facing death or the loss of a loved one. This book presents a general overview of solution focused practice, tools, and methodologies for practitioners. Simon also provides real-life vignettes and verbatim transcripts from actual patients in end-of-life or bereavement counselling. This book provides insight into the philosophy and practice... More info
"Family Art Therapy" is designed to help the reader incorporate clinical art therapy intervention techniques into family therapy practice. Expressive modalities are often used in work with families, particularly visual art forms, and there is already considerable evidence and literature that point to a positive link between the two. This text is unique in that it draws together, for the first time in a single volume, an overview of the evolution of the theories and techniques from the major schools of classic family therapy, integrating them with practical clinical approaches... More info
Have you ever wanted to be just like your mum? Well here is a story just for you! This little lion cub wants to be like his mother, and is keen to point out the similarities between him and his mum! But when it comes to certain things, there's no one just like Mum. A funny tale with adorable illustrations showing the importance of mother love. Forget the flowers....the perfect Mother's day gift More info