by Susan Boyan, LMFT, and Ann Marie Termini, LPC
The Cooperative Coparenting through Separation or Divorce Parent’s Guide contains skills, activities, and at-home practice to help separating parents make the transition to coparents. Covers loyalty conflicts, focusing on the child, improving communication, defusing anger, peaceful negotiations, handling financial issues, and much more. Quantity discounts available. (195 pp.)
Chapter 1 – Child-Focused or Out of Focus: Making the Commitment to Caring
Chapter 2 – Plan for Peace or Tug of War: Allowing My Child to Love Both Parents
Chapter 3 – Letting Go or Holding On: Changing My Long-Term Role
Chapter 4 – Make It Better or Keep It Bitter: Choosing My Personal Path
Chapter 5 – Neither Fight nor Take Flight: Managing My Anger
Chapter 6 – Defuse or Light the Fuse: Taking Control of Conflict
Chapter 7 – Negotiating Agreements: All a Winner or Winner Take All
Chapter 8 – Cooperation or Conflict: Co-Parenting Is Forever
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Be sure to offer a Parent’s Guide to every participant in your groups. Some leaders get funding for the guides, some use their budget, and some charge the parents for them. It all depends on your audience.
Winner of a Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media (Parenting Division) Award!
Here’s what the judges had to say:
“Divorce itself is tough on children, but constant, often bitter conflict that persists after the divorce makes it even tougher. Divorced or divorcing parents will find the workbook and video vignettes openly address likely areas of conflict and offer possible solutions that keep parents centered on what they can both agree on: the happiness and well-being of their child. Open communication and genuine respect, even amidst understandable differences, ground the conflict-resolving strategies. In the tradition of other Active Parenting series, the leader’s guide is chockful of practical ideas to engage parents in the subject.”
–Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media
Reviews:
“This classic guide to successful co-parenting is full of nuts-and-bolts ways to create a positive co-parenting relationship for the benefit of the children. It is comprehensive and invaluable, for both parents and practitioners.”
-Siri Gottlieb, JD, LMSW, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“The authors…take your hand through the journey of coparenting
by mapping the way, offering tools and directions on how to get there, and providing skills training for the trip. Their chapters are like mile-markers; for each one you reach, you’re closer to your destination of healthier parenting and a healthier you. …Some books talk about coparenting; this one shows you how.”
-Gail A. Olson, Ph.D. Licensed Therapist and Instructor
“A must-read for all divorcing and divorced parents, their families,
and professionals who work with them and their children. A true gem of a book…reader-friendly, action-oriented and practical.”
-Helen Coale, LCSW, LMFT
Author of The Vulnerable Therapist: Practicing Psychotherapy In an Age of Anxiety
“Family therapists Boyan and Termini have created an effective, sturdily constructed book-and-video set focused on managing, reducing and eliminating the conflict following a divorce. Parents are taught to keep conflict away from the kids. Thought the parent guide can be used alone and is more affordable than the set, this is a solid option for special collections supporting mental health professionals and self-help groups.”
–Library Journal
