Helping the Kids Through a Divorce

“How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce”

Dr. Elissa P. Benedek and Catherine F. Brown

American Psychiatric Press

230 pages, $22.95

Attitudes on how divorce affects children have varied over the past several decades, with recent research suggesting that the impact on children is profound and long-lasting. Divorcing parents who heed such advice might welcome the publication of a book with up-to-date conclusions about the best ways to help children through divorce. Benedek is an expert in child and forensic psychiatry. The book can be ordered from the American Psychiatric Press Inc. at (800) 368-5777 (request No. 8565), or it can be found in most major bookstores.