TELESEMINAR SERIES FOR COUPLES AND PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN AND TEENS
TELESEMINARS FOR ESTRANGED PARENTS
Author Archives: Dr. Joshua Coleman
BOOK REVIEW: “Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex,” Amy Schalet, Ph.D.
The notion of a rebellious teen driven by hormones and an undeveloped brain is so much a part of our ongoing cultural narrative that we assume its universality. But, what if this construction of adolescence is more cultural than universal?
In a fascinating new book, Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex, [...]
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Webinar Recordings for Couples and Parents of Young Children
I am currently offering recordings and transcripts of my webinars for couples and parents of young children. Below is the list of topics. If you’d like to order scroll to the bottom of this post.
1) Is My Marriage or Relationship Hurting My Children?
2) Five Steps to Fighting Fair: Learning How to Manage Marital or Couple [...]
Parents of Mentally Ill Children: “What If He Were Your Kid?”
Dr. Coleman was asked by CNN.com to write a piece about the parents of Jared Loughner and other parents who have had similar kinds of struggles. Here it is:
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What if he were your kid? You wouldn’t raise that kind of kid. You’d know the signs and get help. You’d have spotted it early [...]
Posted in Articles, Print, Recommended Links Tagged Antipsychotic, heartbroken parents, mental illness, Parent, parents of mentally ill 13 Comments
TODAY SHOW: When Parents Hurt
Dr. Coleman was on the Today Show July 6th, talking about parental estrangement. Click here to view the segment.
Posted in Parental Estrangement, TV Tagged depressed mothers, divorce, guilt, parental alienation, Parental Estrangement, step families 6 Comments
Dual-Career Couples: Dr. Coleman Seminar at Harvard
Dr. Coleman was invited to speak to the faculty and students on Dual-Career Couples at Harvard in November 2010
Radio Free Europe: Infidelity in the U.S.
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Dr. Coleman will be speaking to host Irene Bakchanyan on attitudes toward infidelity in the U.S. on Monday May 17.
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Estranged Parents Featured in NYT’s Article: When The Ties That Bind Unravel
Dear readers,
Today’s NYT’s featured an article on parental estrangement by one of my favorite journalists, Tara Parker-Pope. The article is one of the first I’ve seen that discusses the pain of estrangement from the parent’s perspective. She interviewed several people who post here on the When Parents Hurt forum. To read the full article, click [...]
Posted in Articles Tagged adult child, divorced mother, estranged parents, estrangement, PAS 21 Comments
Book Review: MIND IN THE MAKING: The Seven Essential Skills Every Child Needs, by Ellen Galinsky
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I have long been an admirer of Ellen Galinsky’s work. As president and co-founder of the Families and Work Institute, Ellen and her colleagues have produced some of the most interesting and important findings on the relationship between work and family functioning that we have. I often cite her research in my interviews [...]
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How Common Are College Hook-Ups?
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Not as common as you might think. Researchers at Duke University spelled it out for a random sample of almost 1,500 students at the Durham, N.C., campus and found that only about one-third had had a hookup in college. Researchers surveyed 732 freshmen and 723 seniors and found that of the one-third in [...]
New Teleseminar Series on Alienated and Estranged Parents