Long recognized as the authoritative guide for clinicians working with divorcing families, this book presents crucial concepts, strategies, and intervention techniques. Robert E. Emery describes how to help parents navigate the emotional and legal hurdles of this painful family transition while protecting their children's well-being. The book is grounded in cutting-edge research on family relationships, parenting, and children's adjustment, including Emery's groundbreaking longitudinal study of the impact of divorce mediation versus litigation. It provides a detailed treatment manual for mediating custody and other disputes, developing collaborative parenting plans, and fostering positive postdivorce family relationships. New to This Edition *Reflects the latest psychological research, as well as divorce and custody law. *Chapters on understanding and addressing divorcing partners' anger and grief. *Treatment manual chapters have been extensively revised. *Incorporates the author's 12-year follow-up study.Table of Contents: 1. Conflicting Perspectives: His and Her Divorce 2. Beyond Anger: Pain, Longing, Fear, Guilt, and Grief 3. Grieving Divorce: The Leaver and the Left 4. Renegotiating Relationships I: Separating Marital and Parental Roles 5. Renegotiating Relationships II: Two-Parent Divorced Families 6. Divorce and Custody Law: Perfect Problems, Imperfect Solutions 7. Negotiating Agreements I: Setting the Stage and the First Mediation Session 8. Negotiating Agreements II: Identifying Issues, Brainstorming Options, and Drafting Parenting Plans 9. Mediation Research: A 12-Year Randomized Study