You may have picked up this book on the recommendation of your therapist orattorney. At this point, you are likely sick and tired of coparenting with someoneyou see as the problem—someone you believe deserves very little or no parentingtime. Each uncomfortable interaction with your coparent seems more troubling andstressful than the last. Perhaps the conflict has even reached the point that yourchild is now resisting or refusing contact with you or the other parent, and yourfamily is now in a crisis. Did you pick up this book because you are searching for away forward that will bring some relief from the conflict and even peace—if you darehope for that? You are not alone in searching for a solution. This is a crisis thathas confounded professionals and the courts. Doctors Moran, McCall, and Sullivan arethree psychologists who together have many decades of experience working withhigh-conflict parents. They regularly write professional articles and makepresentations at conferences for counselors, attorneys, and judges abouthigh-conflict coparenting problems including alienation, domestic violence, andparents with mental health conditions. They know from experience that coparenting isnever easy, even in the best of circumstances and also that splitting up onehousehold with children into two separate households is guaranteed to require someadjustments for both parents and children. Children challenge even the most skillfulcoparents. It has also been their experience that generally after hefty resourcesare spent, the courts find it is in the child''s best interest to have a relationshipwith both parents, and the courts will order the family into reunification therapythat offers skills development suggestions similar to those described in this book.Overcoming the Alienation Crisis: 33 Coparenting Solutions is a must-have resourcefor professionals and parents wanting to restore parent-child relationships.Psychologists Moran, McCall, and Sullivan present a balanced view of alienation,coparenting conflict dynamics, and parent-child resist refuse problems. Drawing ondecades of experience as clinical forensic experts with family court cases, theydrill down into the everyday challenges and dilemmas parents face when a childresists or refuses contact with a parent. Coparents who feel like they have beenfighting a hopeless war will discover new understandings about why parent-childcontact problems are so difficult to resolve. In a Q&A format, coparents willfind 33 hands-on solutions, strategies, and tips for frustrating yet all-too-commoncoparenting situations and predicaments such as • Your child believes horrible,slanderous things about you. • Your child refuses to go to their other parent''shome. • Your child refuses calls, texts, and gifts from you. • Your child says theydon''t want to be around their new stepparent. This book will serve as a compass anda guide to move you beyond high conflict and into family peacemaking. The hope is tohelp you remove your children from the crosshairs of your continual conflict. Allproceeds from the sale of this book go to Overcoming Barriers, a 501 (c)(3)nonprofit organization.
