Change Your Mind: Co-Parenting in High Conflict Custody Cases

by Leo Terbieten

Overview

My purpose in this book is to shed light and offer solutions to the seemingly unsolvable and destructive cycle of conflict between parents post separation.
We’ll look at the impact of post-separation conflict on parents and children and present concepts that may help liberate your family from the nightmare of dealing with an antagonistic co-parent.
Change Your Mind will help you in three important ways. You can:
1. Become less emotionally reactive in dealing with the other parent.
2. Learn to focus more on your kids and less on negatively engaging your co-parent.
3. Learn about the nature of relationships and how your earlier experiences have conditioned you to accept unfulfilling relationships.
Why co-parenting matters so much:
Clinical research on divorce overwhelmingly agrees on one point:
It’s the conflict between parents, and not the divorce per se,
that is most damaging to the children. And, I would add,
also most destructive to the divorcing couple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692257999
Publisher:	Leo Terbieten MFT
Publication date:	07/30/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	82
File size:	237 KB

Table of Contents

A New Perspective on Co-Parenting 1

Change Your Mind: Safety, Self-Protection and Assertion 4

Assertion Versus Emotional Reactivity 8

Impact of Divorce on the Children 11

The Stigma of Divorce 17

Three Phases of Separation 21

Survivor's Guilt 34

The Need for Revenge 40

Narcissistic Versus Borderline Personality Characteristics 45

Parallel Parenting 51

Court Standards for Intervention 52

Financial Issues in Co-Parenting 57

Custody Transitions 61

Suitable Accommodations 65

New Relationships 68

Grandparent Visitation 72

Parents Who Are Addicts 76

Parental Alienation 80

Co-Parenting Adolescents 88

The Co-Parent Counselor and Parenting Coordinator 93

Creating a More Meaningful Life for Yourself and Future Generations 94