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In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following divorce. Families affected by these dynamics require disproportionate resources and time from mental health and legal professionals, and cases require a specialized clinical approach. Traditional models of individual and family therapy are not designed to address these issues, and strategies and resources for mental health and legal professionals have been extremely limited.Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems describes interventions for families experiencing a high conflict divorce impasse where a child is resisting contact with a parent. It examines in detail one such intervention, the Overcoming Barriers approach, involving the entire family and combining psycho-education and clinical intervention. The book is divided into two parts: Part I presents an overview of parental alienation, including clinical approaches and a critical analysis of the many challenges associated with traditional outpatient family-based interventions. Part II presents the Overcoming Barriers approach, describing core aspects of the intervention and ways to adapt its clinical techniques to outpatient practice. Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems is geared toward mental health clinicians and legal professionals who work with families in high conflict and where a child resists visitation with a parent.
This book investigates the clinical and legal challenges of managing high-conflict divorce cases where children resist contact with one parent. Authors Abigail M. Judge and Robin M. Deutsch, both experienced clinicians, argue that traditional therapeutic models are insufficient for these complex dynamics. They present the 'Overcoming Barriers' intervention as a specialized, family-based framework designed to address resistance, rejection, and alienation through a combination of psycho-education and intensive clinical work.
What You Will Find
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Professionals in the fields of family law and psychology frequently cite this work as a primary resource for understanding the limitations of standard outpatient therapy in alienation cases. Experts highlight the text for its practical application of the 'Overcoming Barriers' approach in real-world clinical settings.
Page Count:
347
Publication Date:
2016-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190861983
ISBN-13:
9780190861988
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