Divorce Poison New and Updated Edition by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

Divorce Poison New and Updated Edition

How to Protect Your Family From Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing

Dr. Richard A. Warshak

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 19, 2010

Your ex-spouse is bad mouthing you to your children, constantly portraying you in a negative light, perhaps even trying to turn them against you.

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Who it’s for
A practical guide to responding when a co-parent’s criticism threatens your relationship with your children.
Themes
Parental manipulation and bad-mouthing, Protecting parent-child relationships, Children's welfare after divorce
Genres
Divorce & Separation, Co-Parenting, Family Conflict Resolution

About this book

Your ex-spouse is bad mouthing you to your children, constantly portraying you in a negative light, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, your relationship with your children could suffer. You could lose their respect, lose their affections-even, in extreme cases, lose all contact with them. The conventional advice is to do nothing, that fighting fire with fire will only result in greater injury to the children.

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But after years of consulting parents who heeded such advice with no success, Dr. Richard Warshak is convinced that this approach is wrong. It doesn't work, and parents are left feeling helpless and hopeless. DIVORCE POISON instead offers a blueprint for effective response. In it, you will learn how to distinguish different types of criticism, how and why parents manipulate their children, how to detect these maneuvers, and how these practices damage children. Most importantly, you'll discover powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with your children. DIVORCE POISON is a time-tested work that gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children-and provides practical advice from legal and mental-health professionals to help their clients and safeguard the welfare of children. Whether they are perpetrators of divorce poison, victims of it, or both, parents who heed Dr. Warshak's advice will enable their children to maintain love and respect for their parents-even if their parents no longer love and respect each other.

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A practical guide to responding when a co-parent’s criticism threatens your relationship with your children.

Come here for

  • Ways to recognize different kinds of criticism and manipulation
  • Strategies for preserving and rebuilding loving relationships

Expect

  • Practical advice for parents facing bad-mouthing
  • Guidance informed by legal and mental-health professionals

Where it sits

Co-Parenting73%
Divorce & Separation62%
Family Conflict Resolution25%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Alternative Families
  • Anger Management
  • Divorce & Separation
  • Love & Romance
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  • Family & Relationships
  • Co-Parenting
  • Family Resources
  • Siblings
Authors
Dr. Richard A. Warshak
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
January 19, 2010
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Parental manipulation and bad-mouthing · Protecting parent-child relationships · Children's welfare after divorce
Reading lane
Alternative Families