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Working with the Fallout of Divorce

Helping adult clients navigate loyalty conflicts and parent-child estrangement

EstrangementEstrangementIt happens all too often after a divorce or separation – children tend to favor one parent and distance themselves from (or cut off) the other.

Sometimes this shows up early. But often, it only emerges years later, when the child of the divorce is now an adult.

There usually isn’t a simple explanation for it. Instead, a complex web of attachment disruptions, loyalty conflicts, legal proceedings, and personal narratives can all factor in.

And many clients are left devastated by distance they don’t fully understand.

Not only that, but many well-intentioned efforts by family members (and sometimes even therapists) to repair the rupture may deepen it instead.

That’s why we put together this in-depth workshop: to give you a framework for working with parental estrangement from their adult child in the aftermath of divorce.

Divorce, Loyalty Conflicts, and Estrangement: A Framework for Treatment

In this course, Joshua Coleman, PhD will dive into research on key post-divorce relational processes and share best practices for helping clients navigate parent-child estrangement.

  • Why estranged parents coming to therapy want something fundamentally different from what estranged adult children want (and how missing that distinction can derail treatment from session one)
  • What to do (and not do) when one parent pits an adult child against the other parent
  • Key differences between estrangement and alienation that can impact your approach
  • The 10 new “rules” governing parent-adult child relationships that most parents over 50 were never taught
  • The sociological shift that has fundamentally rewritten what adult children feel they owe their parents

In this course, Joshua breaks down the most common clinical missteps and shows you how to work with both sides of the relationship more skillfully.

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Joshua Coleman, PhD

Joshua Coleman, PhD

Joshua Coleman, PhD is a licensed psychologist and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families – an organization dedicated to providing the latest research and best-practice findings about American families.

He is a contributor to TIME, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, The Washington Post, and many more national publications.

Joshua is the author of several books, including Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict; When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along; and The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony.

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You’ll Also Get This Bonus Session with Even More Insights on Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation

Five ‘Processing Principles’ for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Peter Addy, PhD
  • The Critical Steps That Can Help You Guide a Patient Intent on Experimenting with Psychedelic Substances
  • A Peek into What Types of Therapy Might Pair Well with a Psychedelic Experience

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Deerfield Beach, Florida

Why the Transcript Is Essential:

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  • The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
  • We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
  • Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
  • Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
  • You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients

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Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada

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