School-based developmental facilitation groups for children of divorce: a preventive intervention.
A model of time-limited, school-based groups for children of divorce is presented. Common themes that emerged in groups conducted in three schools suggest that youngsters continue to wrestle with divorce-related conflicts years after the marital disruption. Developmental tasks created by specific post-divorce stresses are described, and multiple brief interventions tied to nodal points in child development are proposed.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004243:Divorce; D005190:Family; D006127:Group Structure; D006801:Humans; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D011322:Primary Prevention; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012381:Role Playing