The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart
The good divorce? Impossible? …
In this provocative groundbreaking and authoritative book, internationally acclaimed social scientist and family therapist Constance Ahrons defines the good divorce and shows how couples can achieve one.
“The Good Divorce belongs on America’s required reading list. It will change forever how we think about–and do–divorce. Dr. Ahrons gives us a blueprint, a lifeline, a survival guide for navigating the divorce process, and beyond that, a new way of thinking. My heartfelt gratitude to the author for her mature and transforming vision.” ~ Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Deception
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We're Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce
What is the real legacy of divorce? Constance Ahrons, Ph.D., author of the highly praised The Good Divorce, decided to find out by expanding her landmark study to include in-depth interviews with 173 grown children whose divorcing parents she had interviewed twenty years earlier. What she has learned is both heartening and significant.
“With clarity, compassion, insight and humor, Dr. Ahrons gives us a blueprint to follow so that children can thrive and even flourish as they emerge from divorce, become adults and start their own families. We’re Still Family beautifully presents solid research that answers questions that have plagued families and clinicians alike!” ~ Lois Braverman, President American Family Therapy Academy and Author of Women, Feminism, and Family Therapy
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Divorced Families: Meeting the Challenge of Divorce and Remarriage
Drs. Ahrons and Rodgers describe some of the expectable difficulties for couples at different life-cycle stages — those with young children, childless couples, and midlife and aging couples — and offers guidance for making the most of the transition from separation to remarriage.
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Video Course
Making Divorce Work: A Clinical Approach to the Binuclear Family
In this compelling video, renowned therapist Constance Ahrons demonstrates her groundbreaking approach to working with divorced families, with an emphasis on helping ex-spouses and new spouses effectively manage their shared parenting obligations. In a time when fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce, therapists frequently encounter families struggling with the aftermath.
Free Resources
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- One-Page Handout: Binuclear Family Co-Parenting Typologies
- 15 Golden Rules for Achieving a Good Divorce
- The Five Transitions and Crisis Points of Divorce
- Family Ties After Divorce: Long-Term Implications for Children
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Divorce and Its Aftermath
- A Better Way: An Interview with The Good Divorce author, Constance Ahrons by Jason Marsh, Greater Good Magazine
- Adult Children and Their Fathers: Relationship Changes 20 Years After Parental Divorce by Constance Ahrons and Jennifer Tanner
For a complete historical listing of Constance Ahrons’ publications see her Curriculum Vitae