DVDs

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Making Divorce Work: A Clinical Approach to the Binuclear Family

In this compelling video, renowned therapist Constance Ahrons demonstrates her groundbreaking approach to working with divorced families, with an emphasis on helping ex-spouses and new spouses effectively manage their shared parenting obligations. In a time when fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce, therapists frequently encounter families struggling with the aftermath.

This video depicts a series of productive and poignant therapy sessions with an entire binuclear family: the divorced mother and father, their two sons, and the new wife of the children's father. Dr. Ahrons aptly demonstrates how, over time, she brings these reluctant family members together to begin forging a more agreeable, cooperative approach to parenting.

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Fostering Resilience in Children and Families after Divorce

An on-line Professional Psych Seminar course.

What makes a divorce good? Using the most current research on the long-term effects of divorce on children, Dr. Ahrons will compare and contrast good and bad divorces, showing the impact of each on children and families. She will challenge the current stereotypes and clarify the confusing findings about the long-term outcomes of divorce for children and families. Participants learn to identify the components of a good divorce and understand the concepts of the “binuclear family” and the “limited partnership model” and how to translate these into effective practice. A video tape demonstration will show a model of brief binuclear family therapy that can be adapted to complex families of divorce and remarriage. Participants explore issues such as working with high conflict parents, the relationships between first and second spouses and when to work with the whole family system or subsystems.

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