Creative Parenting After Separation: A Happier Way Forward

by Elizabeth Seddon

Overview

This sensitive and sensible parenting guide coaches couples or individuals who want to maintain and promote their children's stability and security after the separation of their families. Combining individual experiences with current research, this book helps parents shepherd their children through these confusing and frightening times. The advice offered will also help parents come to terms with the separation and rebuild their own lives. Social workers, family therapists, and others who work with children will benefit from the expertise and strategies that are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781741151534
Publisher:	Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Lexile:	1260L (what's this?)
File size:	569 KB

About the Author

Elizabeth Seddon is a social worker who has worked in the area of relationship and family counseling for more than 25 years.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vi
1	What is creative parenting all about?	1
2	Creative parenting after separation: Does it matter?	10
3	Parenting pathways following separation	36
4	What does marriage mean to us and how do cultural meanings affect how we behave towards our partners?	74
5	'Misfit' relationships: Consequences for separation	98
6	Ideas about separation: Some common confusions	123
7	Building a creative parenting relationship	150
8	Maintaining the creative parenting relationship	192
	Notes	225
	References	233
	Index	238