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Emotionally Battered Parents: Coping Strategies for Parents of Behaviorally Challenging Children
Emotionally Battered Parents Coping Strategies for Parents of Behaviorally Challenging Children Author:James Stewart, Paul L. Thompson, Raina Stewart From the back cover: Dealing with high maintenance children takes a toll. Emotionally Battered Parents offers coping strategies for modifying discipline and expectations and for accessing services and resources that might help improve the quality of life for parents. Coping strategies address such topics as control/power struggles, setting boun... more »daries, counseling, compartmentalizing, behavior modification discipline, medication, peace in the midst of turmoil, and the teen passage. Emotionally Battered Parents helps parents to be aware of their own rights and needs that must be addressed if they are to carry the family. It helps parents to recognize and process the loss of normalcy of their family caused by a behaviorally challenging child, and to deal with ambivalent feelings they may have toward the child. The voices of many emotionally battered parents speak from these pages sharing their pain, experiences, and the adaptations that have helped them and their families.« less