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Healthy Families is a Public Health Issue

Cara E Koch

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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

Healthy Families is a Public Health Issue

Pitting parents against one another in family court creates an atmosphere that can breed dysfunctional relationships before, during, and after divorce. This adversarial approach can create an incentive for parents, many of whom do not realize the potential lifelong damage to their children in doing so, to turn their child against the other parent in an attempt to win a court battle over who “gets” the children, and who pays for their support. With current research in child development making clear that children need a good relationship with both parents, surely it is time to reinvent how we support children and their parents when the parents split up. We need to recognize that an important characteristic of a good parent is one who actively supports their child's relationship with the other parent.

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

PA experts believe that parental alienation awareness advocates must initiate a public campaign to eradicate parental alienation, much as the polio epidemic was eradicated years ago. This approach would include a public awareness campaign with media coverage and public service announcements that:

• Educate about parental responsibilities

For adolescents in life skills and parenthood classes

For couples in premarital counseling and parenting classes

• Educate about the harm caused by parental alienation

For early childhood professionals

For teachers/school administrators and personnel

For medical professionals

For lawyers

For judges

A full-blown public health campaign would work to assure the provision of immediate, accessible, and affordable treatment services for alienated families.

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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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Healthy Families is a Public Health Issue

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

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