Description: This unique book supports parents who are struggling with the heartache of having a teenager or an adult child who is troubled, angry, or distant. Such rifts can cause unspeakable sorrow that parents too often must bear alone. Psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, PhD, offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parent they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with their child. Through case examples and healing exercises, Dr. Coleman helps parents: Reduce anger, guilt, and shame Learn how temperament, the teen years, their own or a partner's mistakes, and divorce can strain the parent-child bond Come to terms with their own and their child's imperfections Understand how society's high expectations of parents contribute to the risk of parental wounds By helping parents recognize what they can do, and let go of what they cannot, Dr. Coleman helps families develop more positive ways of healing themselves and relating to each other.
Brief description: Joshua Coleman, PhD, is Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families and a psychologist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, and the BBC, and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. His advice has appeared in the New York Times, the Times of London, Fortune, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting magazine, and many others. Dr. Coleman has served on the clinical faculties of the University of California at San Francisco, the Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, and the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group.
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