In the Name of the Child : A Developmental Approach to Understanding and Helping Children of Conflicted and Violent Divorce
by Janet R. Johnston and Vivienne Roseby
Hardcover, 208 pages, Free Press, New York (1997), ISBN: 0684827719

Janet R. Johnston, Ph.D., ist Executive Director des Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition in Marin County, Kalifornien und associate professor an der San Jose State University.
Vivienne Roseby, Ph.D., ist Director of Protecting the Children am Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition. Sie gehört auch der Fakultät der University of California, Davis an.

Janet Johnston and Vivienne Roseby bring their extensive research and clinical experience to a detailed examination of the immediate and longer-term effects of high-conflict divorce on children. The authors trace the developmental problems affecting very young children through adolescence, with special attention to the impact of family violence and the dynamics of parental alienation. They describe the clinical interventions that have proven to be most effective in their work with individual families and groups along with principles for custody decision making and service programs in the courts and communities that help manage the conflict. In the Name of the Child will be an invaluable asset to clinical social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, mediators, family law attorneys, judges, and teachers who work with children of divorce.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Pt. I. The Problem and the Challenge

1. The Family Crucible of High-Conflict Divorce and Entrenched Custody Disputes

2. Domestic Violence and Parent-Child Relationships in Families Disputing Custody

3. The Prism and the Prison of the Child: How Children Defend and Cope

Pt. II. The Development of Children in High-Conflict Families

Introduction to Part II

4. Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Problems in Separation-Individuation

5. The Preschool Years: Separation, Gender, and Sexualized Anxiety

6. School-Age Children: The Struggle to Feel Lovable, Good, and Competent

7. Early Adolescent Issues: Toward Resolution or Stalemate

8. Parental Alignments and Alienation Among Children of High-Conflict Divorce

Pt. III. Interventions on Behalf of Children of High-Conflict Divorce

9. Building Multidisciplinary Partnerships with the Court: A Spectrum of Dispute Resolution Services

10. Clinical Work with Parents and Children of Families in Entrenched Custody Disputes

11. Group Treatment of Children in Conflicted and Violent Families

Appendix. Guidelines for Initial Assessment of High-Conflict Divorcing Families

References

Bibliography

Index

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