When Parents Hurt
Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along
Drawing on case examples and healing exercises from decades of clinical practice, Dr. Coleman helps parents work through the grief of a strained or distant relationship with an adult or teenage child — reducing anger, guilt, and shame, and finding a path toward rebuilding the relationship or making peace with what can't be changed.
Joshua Coleman's book is a gift, offering extraordinary wisdom coupled with practical advice. Steven Mintz, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
What’s inside
The first book to seriously address the heartache of parents dealing with a distant, angry, or rejecting teenage or adult child. Through case examples, Dr. Coleman looks at how temperament, the teen years, a partner's or one's own mistakes, and divorce can strain the parent-child bond. Rather than assigning blame, he helps parents understand society's shifting expectations of family life, come to terms with their own and their child's imperfections, and develop strategies for either rebuilding the relationship or making peace with what can't be changed.
All reviews
Praise from clinicians, sociologists, and writers.
“Joshua Coleman's book is a gift, offering extraordinary wisdom coupled with practical advice.”
Steven Mintz, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, author of Huck's Raft
“A wise and helpful book.”
Frederic Luskin, PhD, Director, Stanford Forgiveness Projects, author of Forgive for Good
“An especially healing, practical resource for anyone exhausted by strained relationships.”
Dr. Linda Nielsen, Professor of Adolescent Psychology & Women's Studies, Wake Forest University
“This is a hot topic.”
Library Journal
Also by Dr. Coleman
Four more books on family relationships, marriage, and repair.