Description

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Supporting children and families through separation and divorce is a major area of concern in contemporary society. However, it is sometimes hard for those professionals who are helping families to hear the voice' of the child in this process. Writing from their wide experience as clinicians working with children and families, Emilia Dowling and Gill Gorell Barnes set out in this book to address this gap, and allow the child to be heard.
Working with Children and Parents through Separation and Divorce combines research with clinical and practical approaches to working with families going through stressful changes linked to separation or divorce. Attention is given to the wider context of children's lives with the implications for general practice, schools and other services addressed in special chapters. A focused approach to divorce related problems that takes each family member's view into account is illustrated. Combining individual and family work helps parents to resolve difficulties, enabling children troubled by parental separation to progress with their own lives.
This book is essential reading for front line' professionals as well as specialists who encounter children and families going through this life transition in the course of their work.

About the Author

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EMILIA DOWLING is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist. She is Head of Child Psychology in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, and Visiting Professor in the Psychology Department, Birkbeck College (University of London). In addition to her work with divorcing families, her research interests include systemic consultation with families, schools and general practice. In all areas of her work she is particularly interested in the children's perspective. GILL GORELL BARNES is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic and works as a freelance Family Therapist and teacher. She acts as Consultant for Training at the Institute of Family Therapy in London and has worked with families for over 30 years in a variety of settings. She has recently completed some innovative research into children's experience of step-families (Growing up in Step-Families, OUP, 1998) and is now working on a further project on fathers, also based at the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic.EMILIA DOWLING is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist. She is Head of Child Psychology in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, and Visiting Professor in the Psychology Department, Birkbeck College (University of London). In addition to her work with divorcing families, her research interests include systemic consultation with families, schools and general practice. In all areas of her work she is particularly interested in the children's perspective. GILL GORELL BARNES is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic and works as a freelance Family Therapist and teacher. She acts as Consultant for Training at the Institute of Family Therapy in London and has worked with families for over 30 years in a variety of settings. She has recently completed some innovative research into children's experience of step-families (Growing up in Step-Families, OUP, 1998) and is now working on a further project on fathers, also based at the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic.