Beyond Divorce Casualties

Reunifying the Alienated Family

Douglas Darnall

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461623441
• Year: 2010

The companion to Darnall's bestselling Divorce Casualties, Beyond Divorce Casualties is a workbook for severely alienated children and their parents. The book describes the how and why of unification therapy, how to prepare for reunification, how to effectively work with attorneys, mediators, parent coordinators and counselors, and even how to say "goodbye" if reunification is not possible. This book also provides many real life examples of alienating behavior, exercises, and specific instructions for how to change your feelings and behavior. Importantly, the book's underlying assumption is that you have the power to change even if you have no power to change the other parent.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1 A New Beginning
• 2 The Alienating Cycle
• 3 Motivation for Change
• 4 Obstacles to Change: Symbolic Communication
• 5 Obstacles to Change: Blaming
• 6 Obstacles to Change: Theorizing
• 7 Setting the Stage for Reunification
• 8 Parent/Child Reunification Therapy
• 9 Reunification
• 10 Spontaneous Reunification
• 11 Other Issues
• 12 When All Else Fails: Seeking a Change in Custody
• Postscript
• Appendix: Parental Alienation Inventory
• References
• Index
• About the Author