PDF Articles by Dr. Gary Kneier

The following articles were provided by Dr. Gary J. Kneier. You can obtain more information about Dr. Kneier's from his website at: www.drgary.ca.
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• Children's Difficulty with Divorce. Gives a feeling for what children experience in a conflicted divorce. Sets the stage for the next four sections about transfer reactions, switching, and splitting (parental alienation).
• Little Mary, the Switcher. A story about how children ages 5 to 10 tend to cope with a conflicted divorce, and how their reactions tend to increase parental conflict.
• Transfer Reactions: Tommy and the Radar. A story about how children ages 1 to 5 sometimes react to sudden or conflicted divorces.
• Splitting (Alienating) From One Parent: Refusal of Access. A brief essay about the development of this serious problem in pre-adolescent and adolescent children.
• Treating the Symptom of Splitting/Alienation/Refusal of Access. A discussion about approaching this problem as a real psychological symptom. Included are descriptions of the usual treatment with parents who are able to deal with the problem jointly; as well as musings about two possible but untried, paradoxical approaches for very difficult cases.
• Delivering Parenting in Divorced Families. A discussion of various child-sharing regimes and the associated psychological issues for children.
• The Importance of Fathers. With the importance of mothers being well known and obvious, this paper presents recent findings about the similar importance of involved fathering for children. The paper is basically a book report of Dr. Kyle Pruett’s wonderful book, Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child.
• Hello and Goodbye. Describes briefly why marriage counseling and mediation are very different processes.