10- ISNAF Professionals Speak:_ Amy J L Baker, Dec 3, 2023

~ Parenting Under Fire: How to Communicate with Your Hurt, Angry, Rejecting, Distant Child ~

10- ISNAF Professionals Speak:_ Amy J L Baker, Dec 3, 2023

Teaches parents of children of all ages who are hurt, angry, rejecting, and distant (HARD) how to effectively and empathically communicate through a variety of effective and empathic strategies.

Children who are hurt, angry, rejecting, and distant (HARD) can be challenging to parent. They can be rude, uncooperative, and disagreeable. They are hard to relate to or connect with, and they can appear to be hardened to the love and guidance of their parent. Whether hard children are caught in a loyalty conflict, are victims of parental alienation, or behaving this way for some other reason, their parents need help! Losing or feeling like you are about to lose a relationship with a beloved child, regardless of the cause, is one of the most painful scenarios a parent will ever experience. Such parents feel under fire! How to handle such children before relationships are further damaged is a question many parents have. Should the parent pick their battles or put their foot down? Should they pursue the child or let the child come to them?
This fourth collaboration by Baker and Fine offers strategies to alleviate various forms of conflict that develop between a parent and child.… The authors propose that the parent is responsible for resolving any differences, and the divisiveness or estrangement reflects a child’s unfulfilled needs.

Bio
Dr. Baker is a nationally recognized expert in parental alienation, and parent-child relationships, especially children of divorce, and emotional abuse of children. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University. She is the author or co-author of 10 books and over 120 academic articles on topics related to children's well-being.
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