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Summary: For all divorcing parents
Review: This book is written for all divorcing parents, whether cooperative or not. Easy to read and enlightening. Embedded helpful suggestions. Uplifting and inspiring success stories. Helpful suggestions for parents, grandparents, relatives, friends, mental health professionals and attornies. Dr. Warshak's book gave us hope for a better future with our kids. Book includes descriptions of why and how children are alienated and how to fight this type of poison. It also describes levels of alienation. This book is a must read for all divorcing parents.
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Summary: An inspiring book from an equally inspiring man.
Review: This book obviously is written for adults but it's really about our children. Dr. Warshak outlines very exquisitely the downfalls for the "do nothing attitude" that is expected by the courts and some (if not most) mental health professionals.
This is part of an E-mail that I wrote him: (and yes, he will reply!)
"To sum it all up: (if you read nothing else) Thanks for the book and the tools to avoid the "do nothing" mentality. I have been told to do nothing but have been feeling guilty because I chose to do something when nothing wasn't working. There's obvious benefits to being selectively and very cautiously assertive."
There's so much more that needs to be said about "divorce poison," PAS, etc. There's a vast dichotomy in personal opinions due to the relative lack of understanding and scientific research. I suggest you buy multiple copies and send them to your attorneys, mental health officials, and anyone else that can benefit from it (use it as partial payment for services rendered, it sounds funny but I have done it). Anyone that can write a book and personally ask for readers input is a SAINT in my thinking. Richard Warshak definitely has the knowledge, talent, and scientific background to make a huge difference in the lives of our children and I believe he has only started. I give him 6 stars for going above and beyond the call of duty.
Ultimately it is up to the parents to counter the "divorce poison" by being proactive and assertive but most of all acknowledging their own poison. By reading some of the reviews on this book it's no doubt commonly a two way street. It's a natural tendency to fight poison with poison because it's such an effective tool but as you know it's the last thing a child needs.
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Summary: Divorce Poison
Review: This book offers both parents and professionals a practical and understandable road map for dealing with parental post-divorce anger and alienation that infests and poisons parent-child relationships with antagonistic brainwashing, false accusations, disparagement, and memory revision directed at the child against the other parent. The book provides workable suggestions for parents and therapists, suggestions that are long overdo and that correct once-popular and well-intended, but likely misguided, ideas about parental alienation. In another, important sense, this is a book for children - that is, for the mental health of children.Warshak gives readable case examples that explain clearly and understandably what to do and what not to do. His book separates true alienation from the alienation children create on their own, when the parent himself or herself alienates the children by their own actions. His book empowers parents affected by deliberate alienation with strategies for coping with their own feelings while meeting the emotional needs of their children. The book also offers encouragement and practical strategies for parents to help deal with their own feelings and behaviors, both when they are tempted to speak badly of the other parent, and when they have already done so and recognize the need to neutralize toxins they may have passed on to a child. In short, Warshak's book is a must-read, a survival manual, for divorced parents with children. It is particularly helpful for parents who suspect that their children might be alienated, or that the other parent may be attempting to alienate the children.
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Summary: Great perspectives on root causes and motivations
Review: This book was a great read for offering explanations as to root causes of behavior and for understanding different motivating factors. It is further enhanced by lots of anecdotal stories, but more statistics and data-driven outcomes would have been a welcome addition to this subject. Although some of the coping strategies are a bit common sense or fairly weak, it is still comforting to read and know that the situations are, unfortunately, quite rampant. In being somebody dating a person who is desparately trying to cope with an ugly divorce process and lots of venom being spewed in all directions, I wish I could give a copy to the spouse-behaving-badly, but afraid it offers too many "new ideas" on how to behave even worse.
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Summary: A Must Read for Divorced Parents and Therapists
Review: This is the only book out that tells you how to recognize and began to stop alienation. The target parent must be in powered to stop alienation. Alienation is child abuse and must be treated as such. This book stands alone on a topic that has been overlooked years, few therapists are educated on the subject.
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