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How parents can promote children’s resilience after divorce

A leading expert in parent education post-divorce weighs in about how parents can promote emotional resilience in children during and after this transition.  Please click on the link for 10 tips for parents
children’s resilience after divorce

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Resources for Developing Parenting Skills

Here are some good resources to help parents develop their parenting skills:
Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently–Why It Helps Your Kids and Can
Strengthen Your Marriage, by Kyle Pruett MD and Marsha Pruett PhD
Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child, by Kyle Pruett
Parenting Wisely. [...]

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Overcoming Barriers Family Camp Featured in Canadian News Documentary on Parental Alienation

The Canadian News program W5 (the equivalent of the 20/20 news program in the states) did a segment entitled: W5 Investigates: Children on the Front Lines of Divorce.  This compelling segment interviews 3 families impacted by high conflict divorce. The second part of the segment highlights a family who attended the 2008 Breaking Barriers Family [...]

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Tips for high conflict coparents

The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts provides us with tips for coparents who continue to be in high conflict post-divorce.
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Tips for high conflict parents

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Tips for Coparents

The AFCC has provided 10 tips for coparents to consider as they establish a shared parenting arrangement post-divorce.
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Tips for coparents

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Parenting Styles website: Support for Parents

The website www.parentingstyles.co.uk is a wonderful resource for parents. Parenting is a skill that is developed through knowledge and practice, and websites, such as this one is a user friendly way to tap into experts responses to questions parents have about nearly any subject. I found the searches on parenting after divorce useful for parents [...]

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Overcoming Barriers Camp July 20-25, 2009

Dr. Sullivan will be conducting the second year of a 5-day camp for families where a child has rejected a parent and an intensive intervention to reconnect the child with their parent is desired. The family systems intervention requires the participation of both parents and child(ren) and provides a combination of psychoeducation, intervention, and an [...]

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Up to parents – new website for coparents and professionals who work with coparents

Take a look at this website. It’s an excellent resource for coparents and professionals who work with coparents. Incredible materials to assist in the divorce transitions. This professionals from Indiana (Charlie Asher) have put a tremedous amount of time and expertise into this wonderful resource  Check it out!   www.uptoparents.org.

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Parallel Parenting Plans

For high conflict coparents, it is essential to construct parenting plans/custody orders that support a parallel parenting model. This disengages coparents, and provides the structure that they need to implement custody orders with minimal interaction. This document explains the essentials of parallel parenting plans
parallel-parenting-plans.doc

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Parenting Plan Essentials

This outline provides essential elements to guide the construction of parenting plans:
parenting_plan_musts.doc

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