From Heartbreak to Healing

Self-Help

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Synopsis

Fixed - 10/23/2020

From Heartbreak to Healing is a comprehensive introduction to a common but often unrecognizes family dynamic called parental alienation, which is a serious form of both child and spouse abuse that occurs when one parent turns their child against the other parent for no justified reason—often during divorce or separation. It is a serious form of both child and spouse abuse that occurs throughout the world.

This go-to book for parents who do not know what to do when their child rejects them, is based on the author’s personal experience as an alienated parent years before the experience had a name. It reveals her story and how she healed her own grief, summarizes her research of the literature on this new field of parental alienation, and shares the results of the author’s nation-wide survey to interview other rejected parents firsthand about their experience of alienation.
Topics include:

What parental alienation is and how it works
Who teaches their child to reject the other parent and why
Stories of other alienated parents
How to find and screen parental alienation-qualified professionals
What works to resolve alienated relationships
Next steps YOU can take to help erase and prevent parental alienation

As a recommended resource on the International Parental Alienation Sudy Group website, this book is an excellent resource for social, legal, and mental health professions who want to understand and provide best practices to families suffering from parental alienation.

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Author Biography

Cara is the author of the book, From Heartbreak to Healing: Resolving Parental Alienation After 43 years as an alienated parent with a professional background in child development and family relationships where she managed child development programs serving working parents and their children, plus a doctorate in children’s [innate]spirituality, she finds answers to her questions: “Why me? How did this happen? and What is the purpose?” Through a process of deep introspection, she overcame decades of depression, despite remaining unreconciled with her son. She has now discovered resources, formerly unavailable, that could have led to a different outcome.

Author Insight

Prevention is the Real Solution

The ineffectiveness of family court in helping families who experience the rejection of a parent has led me to the realization that the solution to this problem must occur “upstream.” If you discover a child drowning in a river, your first reaction is to pull the child out of the water and administer first aide. If you discover more children have fallen in the river, you eventually go upstream to see why they are in the river in the first place. Likewise, going upstream is the logical approach to address the problem of parental rejection that is a world-wide crisis today. Close you eyes and imagine how different it would be if parents could choose professionals with therapeutic, conciliation, mediation, and arbitration skills to support the family and assure the well-being of all family members before the breakup of the family. Rather than contacting an expensive lawyer to help them battle it out in court using children and money as the weapon and/or prize, parents would have affordable resources to guide them in working out the best solution for moving forward with their lives. Such a system could keep most families from ever needing to go to court. For more information check out www.TwoWishes.org.

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

The parents I interviewed often commented about how ineffective they find the family court system. They reported that programs referred to as “reunification programs” required by the court often attempt to mandate co-parenting without an initial assessment of the family dynamics to screen for parental alienation, or without an analysis of the severity of the alienation if found. They also frequently noted a lack of recognition that parents with diagnosed personality disorders are incapable of co-parenting due to their lack of empathy for other family members.

Once a Five-Factor Assessment has been completed with a diagnosis of parental alienation (not all parent rejection is caused by alienation because sometimes there is a legitimate cause) and the level of alienation determined, an appropriate treatment plan can be made. Although there is a growing body of research about severe alienation, there is less known about the mild or moderate range of parental alienation. Informative new research is being conducted to help us better understand where the cut-off points on the continuum lie, along with exploring new methods of teaching both parents and children skills regarding problem-solving, critical thinking, and creative ways to develop new coping skills.

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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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Prevention is the Real Solution

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From Heartbreak to Healing

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