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Married With Special-Needs Children: A Couples' Guide To Keeping Connected
by Laura Marshak and Fran Pollock Prezant

Woodbine House, 2007. Softcover, 296 pages, $24.95

 

While the birth of any child brings changes and challenges to all marriages, couples who have special needs children often find themselves facing additional stress and problems that can cause marital difficulties. In Married With Special Needs Children, Laura Marshak and Fran Pollock Prezant offer parents of children with disabilities insight and advice drawn from their professional backgrounds in marital therapy and parent training.

Their book, the first of its kind, is a compassionate and wise guide to recognizing concerns such as communication breakdown, decreased time for intimacy, managing and sharing child care, and differing expectations for their child with special needs. In addition to offering their professional expertise on how to cope with these challenges constructively as a couple, the authors also include advice and experiences from hundreds of parents. Much-needed and long overdue, this book is highly recommended for parents, support groups and related organizations, and professionals in the mental health and health care fields.

 

-Reviewed by Sally Rosenthal

 

 

About the reviewer: A former college librarian and occupational therapist, Sally Rosenthal is a contributing editor to and frequent writer for a number of publications on the topics of disability, companion animals, and working dogs.