Dating Tips For Single Parents: Overcoming the Fears of Repeating Costly Mistakes

By Mitchell Milch, MSW

What's especially important to consider as attachments deepen are the roles from early childhood your partner might feel compelled to re-live and pressure you to re-live with them. We don’t know someone intimately until we get a flavor of the ghosts of seasons past that we'll inevitably be dealing with from time to time.

Weighty Matters

By Mitchell Milch, CSW

Our emotional vulnerabilities post-divorce may create an internal environment ripe for unhealthy dependencies on our own eating habits, as well as on how we feed others. Eating dysfunctions, even in their most benign forms, are perhaps the most insidious because, in a society where obesity is quickly becoming the norm, they can easily go undetected.

The Marriage Between Psychology and Divorce

By Renee A. Cohen, Ph.D.

When spouses decide to end a marriage that includes children, it requires intelligence and compassion to help structure a new existence that protects the integrity and psychological well-being of each family member, young and old. Engaging a psychologist as mediator can provide significant help for everyone as they learn to cope with emotional upheaval and adapt to their newly-altered family structure.

For Better Or For Worse…And Other Things That Didn't Come True

By Jackie Castro, MA, MFT

The ending of a long-term committed relationship is a traumatic grief experience. Even if we think it's for the best, it is still one of the most shocking, most difficult losses to endure.

Hopeless Marriage: Relationship Resolution, Relationship Recovery

By Howard Richard Wax, M.Ed, LMFT

When is it time to quit? Married couples agonize with the question of resolving profound emotional distress and/or complete emotional indifference by divorce. Often the time between the actual decision to divorce, separate, or in any other way take action is quite unrelated to any one actual event occurring.

Preventative Therapy During and After Divorce Can Help Protect Young Kids and Teens

About 1.5 million young kids and teens experience the divorce of their parents each year--ultimately 40 percent of the nation’s children. While most adapt well, a significant percentage are especially vulnerable to developing mental health problems, suffering impaired educational attainment, and experiencing difficulties later on in life with socioeconomic and family well-being.

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?

By Michelle Gottlieb, Psy.D., MFT

How do you mend a broken heart? These are not just song lyrics, but also a serious and painful question for many, many people. All of us, at one point or another over our lifetimes, will have our hearts broken. Even though we may not believe it at the time, we will survive. The question, is how do we do that in a healthy manner?

The Most Important Step to Overcoming Rejection

By Claire Arene, MSW, LCSW

The ability to subvert the harmful, long lasting effects of being rejected depends on your ability to understand the behavior of the individual who rejects, the way you choose to interpret the messages conveyed by rejection, and how you choose to integrate those messages into your sense of self.

Separating

By Mary Ann Massey, Ed.D.

It's never easy to decide to dissolve a marriage. Those who do, know their own reasons and must honor their hearts. Friends and family may not understand or even agree with the decision. For those of you who are in the midst of separation--or teetering at the decision stage--here are some thoughts to ponder.

Healing After Divorce

By Mary Ann Massey, Ed.D.

This article, told anecdotally through the eyes of a divorced woman, is about the effects of divorce on both parties and children. It highlights an extraordinary event that led to healing for the family and supports the need for therapy after divorce.

Mommy's House--Daddy's House Revisited

By Arlene K. Unger, Ph.D.

In light of the increasing numbers of 50/50 custody decisions made in courts today, there has been a growing concern about how much parents can or should coordinate their lifestyles. Lack of coordination can trigger parental conflicts over discipline, rules, homework, nutrition, bedtime, hygiene and the handling of extracurricular activities.

Divorce and a Child's Disruptive Behavior

Marital breakup is never easy on anyone. But when parting parents put their child in the middle, work against or undermine each other and compete with one another, they can expect their offspring to suffer emotionally and/or behaviorally. The best predictor of a positive outcome for a kid is when divorcing parents cooperate with each other--at least where their child is concerned.