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When Parents Hurt

Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along
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When Parents Hurt by psychologist Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., offers compassion and insight to parents grieving the loss of the relationship they wished to have with their child. Through case studies and therapeutic exercises, it addresses feelings of anger, guilt, and shame, explores factors like temperament, adolescence, mistakes, and divorce that strain bonds, and guides parents to accept imperfections. The book provides strategies for repairing relationships or finding peace with what cannot be changed.
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This book suits parents struggling with difficult relationships with their adolescent or adult children, as well as those seeking empathetic guidance to heal familial bonds. It is particularly valuable for readers interested in psychology, family dynamics, and personal growth.

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A unique book for parents whose relationships with their adolescent or adult children have not turned out as they expected that helps them deal with their pain and sense of loss, and take steps toward healing.

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In When Parents Hurt, 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
  • Develop strategies for rebuilding the relationship or move toward acceptance of what can't be changed

By helping parents recognise 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.

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Praised as "a wise and helpful book" by Frederic Luskin, Ph.D., and celebrated for extraordinary wisdom and practical advice by Steven Mintz, this work is deemed healing and practical for those exhausted by strained parent-child relationships. Hara Estroff Marano finds it realistic and compassionate, while Library Journal calls it unique and groundbreaking. Stephanie Coontz notes it as exceptionally perceptive.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780061148439

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 March 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 245g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Dr. Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in parenting, couples, families, and relationships. He is a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families. The author of two critically acclaimed books, The Marriage Makeover and The Lazy Husband, he is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, and his advice has been featured in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, the Times (London), and elsewhere. He is a frequent guest on the Today show and has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, and many other news programs. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay area.

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