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Children in separated families: A group‐based intervention strategy
Author(s) -
Durkin Chris,
Mesie Jeff
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.2380030408
Subject(s) - panacea (medicine) , intervention (counseling) , feeling , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology
Abstract The effects of divorce and separation on children can be traumatic and long lasting. Any intervention has to be aware of, and sensitive to, the aims of custodial parents. A group‐based intervention aimed at helping children to be less vulnerable to both emotional problems and future abuse is described. The results of such groups suggest that future intervention needs to treat the panacea of increasing child‐parent communication with some caution, and should instead recognize that children make their own choices about when to speak out and what to say within their own family situation. Intervention should instead be geared towards helping children to sort out their own feelings and letting them decide how they want to express them.