Jim Sheehan is Professor of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice at Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo, Norway, and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Irelan

Jim Sheehan tackles head-on the pain and dangers of family conflict after separation and divorce, offering a multi-layered examination of this complex territory. He places relational processes and contexts at the centre of understandings that generate a road map of respectful, containing and creative professional responses.

• 1. Introducing the Territory of Post-Separation/Divorce Family Conflict.- 2. The Changing Shape of Family Conflict.- 3. The Separating Family and its Conflict Management.- 4. The Spectrum of Post-Separation Family Negotiation and Conflict .- 5. Parental Conflict over Child Access .- 6. Family Court Responses to Parent Conflict over Child Access.- 7. Parental Alienation and Justified Rejection of a Parent.- 8. Working with 'High Conflict' Parents and Their Children.- 9. Connecting and Reconnecting Parents and Children Following Prolonged Separation.- 10. Future Responses to Family Conflict after Separation and Divorce

Jim Sheehan is Professor of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice at Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo, Norway, and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Irelan

Jim Sheehan tackles head-on the pain and dangers of family conflict after separation and divorce, offering a multi-layered examination of this complex territory. He places relational processes and contexts at the centre of understandings that generate a road map of respectful, containing and creative professional responses.

• 1. Introducing the Territory of Post-Separation/Divorce Family Conflict.- 2. The Changing Shape of Family Conflict.- 3. The Separating Family and its Conflict Management.- 4. The Spectrum of Post-Separation Family Negotiation and Conflict .- 5. Parental Conflict over Child Access .- 6. Family Court Responses to Parent Conflict over Child Access.- 7. Parental Alienation and Justified Rejection of a Parent.- 8. Working with 'High Conflict' Parents and Their Children.- 9. Connecting and Reconnecting Parents and Children Following Prolonged Separation.- 10. Future Responses to Family Conflict after Separation and Divorce

Jim Sheehan is Professor of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice at Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo, Norway, and School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Irelan

Jim Sheehan tackles head-on the pain and dangers of family conflict after separation and divorce, offering a multi-layered examination of this complex territory. He places relational processes and contexts at the centre of understandings that generate a road map of respectful, containing and creative professional responses.

• 1. Introducing the Territory of Post-Separation/Divorce Family Conflict.- 2. The Changing Shape of Family Conflict.- 3. The Separating Family and its Conflict Management.- 4. The Spectrum of Post-Separation Family Negotiation and Conflict .- 5. Parental Conflict over Child Access .- 6. Family Court Responses to Parent Conflict over Child Access.- 7. Parental Alienation and Justified Rejection of a Parent.- 8. Working with 'High Conflict' Parents and Their Children.- 9. Connecting and Reconnecting Parents and Children Following Prolonged Separation.- 10. Future Responses to Family Conflict after Separation and Divorce