Divorced Fathers and Their Families, 2013 Legal, Economic, and Emotional Dilemmas

? This book focuses on the experience of father's lives after a divorce, and how mental health professionals can help them create a healthy transition. Through the use of case examples critical issues are highlighted and discussed with supportive empirical findings and clinical insights.  Traditionally, the marital legal sessions as well as the ultimate marriage settlement focus on the issues confronted by the ex-wife and mother and on the custody and visitation plan for the children.   This is actually supported by law in some places.  This can remove the father from important qualitative issues such as what it is like to have children in two households, relationships with two sets of grandparents, where holidays will be spent, fair rotations of responsibility and how continuing parental discord can be resolved. The issues examined in this volume are relevant to a range of professionals who deal with divorcing couples from psychologists and family therapists to legal advisors and judges.?

Evolution of Thought about Custody Decisions: The Last 100 Years.- (Case 1) Dr. Blue Eyes: Dreams That Turned into Nightmares.- (Case 2) Mr. Bob Straight:  I Promised Myself I Would Be a Good Dad.- (Case 3) Dr. Jorge Perez:  Promises Made, Promises Kept, Until Forever Was Too Long.- (Case 4) Mr. Reuben Guy:  The Nastiness Never Stopped.- Case 5) Dr. Ron Dedicated: Why Can’t Judges be trained to “Do No Harm” and really be “Just”.- (Case 6) Mr. Bill Brogan: Feeling Trapped, Escaping and the Big Lie.- (Case 7) Mr. Terry Kelly: Saga of Betrayal and a Father’s Unwavering Devotion.- (Case 8) Mr. Gene Goodman: My Life Revolves Around My Kids Now.- (Case 9) Dr. Ari Regis: The Relentless Demands and Criticism Never Cease!.- (Case 10) Mr. Arturo Miguel: How the Courts’ Rigidity Deprives Dads and Their Kids of Each Other’s Companionship and Love.- (Case 11) Mr. Hy Hopes: The Fallout of “Crazy in Love”.- (Case 12) Dr. Zack Determined: It’s a Strange World After All.- (Case Unlucky 13): My Greatest Loss.- on Cases: How Outcomes Might Have Been Different if Other Services or Professionals Had Been Utilized.- Divorce Therapy, Divorce Mediation and Collaborative Divorce.- A Different Lawyer: A Different Result.- Family Evaluation in Custody Litigation: Reducing Risks of Devastating Relationships.- Parenting Coordination.- The Role of the Child Advocate.- Why Can Some Individuals Share Their Children While Others Can’t, or Won’t? Is Personality a Major Key?.- Harken All Professionals Involved in the Tragedy of Divorce! The Urgency of Humanizing the Legal, Judicial, and Psychological Aspects of Divorce.- Appendix I – Questionnaire Administered to Divorced Dads.- Appendix II –Model of Stages in the Divorce Process.- Appendix III – Divorce Ceremony.

Florence W. Kaslow, Ph.D., is an internationally known and respected teacher, clinical and family psychologist, supervisor, consultant, coach, therapist, guest lecturer, and workshop leader. A Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College (1969), she is in practice as a psychologist, family business consultant, and coach in Palm Beach County [Gardens], Florida. She is President of Kaslow Associates, a coaching and consulting firm, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. She was a lecturer, Department of Psychiatry of Harvard University Medical School in 1992, 1997, and 2005, an Adjunct Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center from 1982 to 2004. From 2007-2010 she was a Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Mercer University Medical School, Macon, Georgia.