During divorce, it may turn out that each of the co-parents has significant personality disorders or psychiatric problems that are causing stress in the children.
Complex Divorce
What Is Parent Coordination?
Learn from this article about parent coordination to resolve divorce disputes outside of the courtroom, as it goes beyond mediation, psychotherapy, and other forms of resolving conflicts between co-parents.
Substance-Abusing Parents
The role of substance abuse is a recurrent theme in the conflicts reported by high-conflict couples. Some researchers have found that pervasive mistrust about the other parent’s ability to care for the children adequately is one of the primary features of high-conflict as opposed to low-conflict divorces.
Helping Children Adjust to Divorce
Learn how to assist your children as your family is going through a divorce. The changes that can most affect your children are their routines being interrupted. Read more here.
Divorce as a Crisis
Learn why some individuals adjust to divorce relatively well while others go into an emotional tailspin from which they may never really recover.
Court Programs to Treat and Prevent High-Conflict Divorce
Here are some great examples of resources available to prevent or reduce a high-conflict divorce, including mediation, counseling, and more.
Ending Domestic Abuse
There are many reasons why people hurt the ones they love. They may lash out because they are unable to communicate their anger in any other manner, or because it’s their only way to feel in control. Still others may be genuinely sociopathic.
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