A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the Effects of Conflict and Divorce

A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the Effects of Conflict and Divorce is a must read for parents who are contemplating divorce, who are in the middle of a divorce or who are navigating post-divorce issues. Joan McWilliams, an experienced lawyer/mediator with over 30 years of experience, shows parents how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) harms children and how they can give them the gift of Resilience.

A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the Effects of Conflict and Divorce:

- Helps parents understand how unresolved conflict can hurt their children.
- Describes how parents can help their children become resilient.
- Explains the use of trauma-informed care/counseling—a tested way to help children.
- Provides a road map for parents—before, during and after their divorce.

Lawyers and Mental Health Professionals:
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the Effects of Conflict and Divorce
is a perfect addition to your initial client consultations.

What Others Are Saying . . .

Because divorce is such a highly stressful life experience for all involved, especially for the children, A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the Effects of Conflict and Divorce will be important and useful to its many readers, providing understanding on how divorce’s adverse effects on children can be reduced, by proper understanding and planning.

Vincent J. Felitti, MD, Co-Principal Investigator, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
An outstanding resource for all parents who are experiencing divorce. Joan McWilliams shares important research and wonderful insights that reflect her many years as a highly accomplished and respected lawyer/mediator. Her advice will literally save children’s lives. I will be urging all of my divorcing parent clients to read and re-read this book in order to protect their children from the consequences of toxic stress.

Kathleen McNamara, Ph.D., PLLC, Board of Directors, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Joan McWilliams provides a thorough and thoughtful explanation of Adverse Childhood Experiences and a wonderful guide for developing resilience. It is a book for all parents and especially parents who are going through a divorce or are divorced.

Lori Poland, MA, LPC, RRT, Executive Director of the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect

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