Bøger af Benjamin D. Garber

An insightful, honest guide for parents and professionals regarding children on roles, boundaries, child growth and staying connected through life.

Twenty-six letters. Twenty-six lessons. This fun little book is a simple “how to” guide for new and not-so-new parents.

Separation and divorce are tough enough on grown-ups, and they can be even tougher on kids.

This unique volume and the accompanying forms provide you with ten forensic family evaluation tools ready for immediate use. These tools have been developed by Dr. Benjamin D. Garber over the course of more than twenty years and tempered through the process of treating and evaluating hundreds of high conflict families.Ten Child-Centered Forensic Family Evaluation Tools provides the family law professional with critical means of navigating through the complex and contradictory history and reports that commonly arise in the context of custody-related litigation. These are the tools that have been missing to date, necessary if one hopes to map out the conflicted family's strengths and weaknesses, needs and wishes in an organized, systematic and reliable manner.More than just data collection, Ten Child-Centered Forensic Family Evaluation Tools anchors parent, child and third-party report in the hard data underlying psychology and family law. This volume not only makes Dr. Garber's tools available for immediate use, it provides the reader with up-to-date references to critical areas of inquiry. Responses can thus be interpreted not only by comparison among co-parents, but also by comparison between respondents and the extant literature.Use of these Ten Child-Centered Forensic Family Evaluation Tools secures evaluations in science, buttresses interpretations in empirical data, and anchors the evaluator's testimony in the contemporary literature all to the benefit of none so much as the child.Ten Child-Centered Forensic Family Evaluation Tools is structured into six broad categories. Each begins with an introduction to the general topic, includes an annotated discussion of the instrument(s) being introduced and a select list of references. The tools themselves are laid out page-by-page with critical items highlight and cross-referenced. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all ten tools ready to print and to become the foundation of the professionals' next forensic family evaluation.

The Parenting Plan Worksheet is the conscientious caregiver's only developmentally-informed means of creating a child-centered parenting plan. Sixteen discrete but interlocking modules allow parents singly or together to better understand the intricate decisions that will guide the future allocation of their parenting rights and responsibilities.This book, The Roadmap to The Parenting Plan Worksheet, is the professional's guide to using the Parenting Plan Worksheet. The Roadmap dissects the sixteen component modules of the Worksheet, presenting case law, theory and empirical discussion. Mediators, parenting coordinators, lawyers and courts use the Roadmap to guide parents through the rocky terrain that can lead to the creation of a child-centered, developmentally-informed parenting plan.

Out-of-control anger can make life miserable for everyone in the family, especially during a divorce, parental separation, or throughout co-parenting. Dr. Garber shows parents how to understand anger in all its forms, and offers practical strategies for modeling good anger management for children, planning ahead for what to do when anger erupts, and more.

First printing: 1,000This is a continuation of our line of publications for the very specific and narrow field of forensic psychology in family law, all by the same author.The market will specifically be psychologists and some family law attorneys.The author is a frequent keynote speaker at family law conferences.Publisher will reach out to its vast list of family law professionals in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.Publisher will run a strong digital media campaign.Galleys (and egalleys via Edelweiss) available 6 months in advance of publication.

Helps social workers and mental health practitioners gain a broader understanding of a child's unique needs when in the midst of family crisis. This book presents guidelines for addressing the changing developmental needs of children who have experienced crises such as abuse, neglect, relocation, divorce, and more.