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

Better Than a Cure

Because standard treatment approaches to family therapy are unlikely to succeed in cases of parental alienation, what can a rejected parent do? There are a few approaches that are successful, BUT they are usually prohibitively expensive AND extremely rare. So what can be done to stop this devastating family dynamic that is currently an epidemic throughout the world? PREVENTION. Find out what makes a marriage work. One of the best ways for new couples to explore that question is to find out why so many marriages end in divorce. Together, honestly analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each other to determine what each needs from the other—emotionally, financially, and time-wise. Also recognize the role of family and friends as resources to meet needs and areas of additional responsibility. Learn what it takes to be a parent. Check out community resources for parents. How much do you about children, and their stages of growth and development? Taking classes together is a great way to explore your feelings and explore expectations about parenting. Find out the cost of childcare in your community.

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

Research shows that standard and generic treatment approaches, including generic family therapy, are exceptionally unlikely to succeed in cases of parental alienation. Not only that, there are no reasonable circumstances in which such treatments should be taken. This is an amazingly strong statement, but one backed up by numerous, extensive peer-reviewed studies. It is important to recognize that it is easily possible to spend thousands of dollars, to the point of bankruptcy, on ineffective treatment.

It is an unfortunate fact that, at present, professionals who are responsible for child custody evaluations, mediators, and other mental health specialists associated with the family court system generally lack in-depth training and expertise in the field of parental alienation. This is a highly specialized subcategory of specialization that requires exceptional skill and years of experience to assess and treat. At present, there is no credentialing body to provide specific criteria to help parents identify experts trained in the subspecialty of parental alienation because it is still an emerging field.

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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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From Heartbreak to Healing

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