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The Atlantic: What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more. Read the full...
The Washington Post: My adult children just can't get along. What should I do?
While you can't necessarily fix things -- they're adults after all -- here are a few things to try if your grown kids can't get along.
The Washington Post: A parent’s affair can be hurtful. Here’s how to move past disappointments.
"Ask a Therapist" Column
This kind of disillusionment can be painful, but there are ways to manage the feelings of betrayal and anguish.
The Washington Post: How to complain better and strengthen relationships, according to experts
Here are some guidelines that I suggested to my patient, which may also help others:
The Washington Post: Radical Acceptance Can Help Build Emotional Resiliency
Read the full article here.
TIME: How Estrangement Has Become an Epidemic in America
An op-ed by Joshua Coleman and Will Johnson, published December 13, 2024. Read the full article here.
USA Today: Politics and family feel more fraught this Thanksgiving. Data shows they are. | Opinion
This year's election split voters down the middle. Now, as the nation sets the table for the winter holidays, it's doing the same thing...
The Washington Post: The heartbreak of parent-child estrangement and how to cope
When one of my patients thinks about her daughter, she remembers sitting with her in the neonatal intensive care unit for five weeks...
How Parents Can Heal Rifts with Their Adult Children
APRIL 15, 2024, Scientific American, Dr. Joshua Coleman Repairing a broken parent-adult child relationship is possible if both sides...
We Aren't Family: The Adults 'Divorcing' Their Parents
More adult children are “breaking up” with their folks, in what’s being described as an epidemic of intergenerational dysfunction. And...
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