In twenty pages this paper assesses the impact of divorce upon children and discusses various parental and counseling therapeutic options. Seventeen sources are cited in the bibliography.
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There as many approaches to dealing with the impacts of divorce as their are circumstances leading to divorce. Children, in particular, are of concern in regard to the need
for therapeutic intervention. Consequently is a particularly diverse number of approaches to addressing the numerous psychological and sociological impacts inflicted on children who suffer the divorce of their parents.
Therapeutic intervention in regard to the children of divorce often becomes the responsibility of a number of different professions. Group
work has proven itself to be particularly effective. Group work with children of divorce hopes to not only identify these impacts but resolve them so that the well being
of the child is optimized. What such work clearly reveals is that the impacts of divorce extend far beyond the dissolution of the union between a man and a
woman. Divorce, in fact, has many victims. The most innocent of these are the children. The blows divorce sometimes deals to children are often multifaceted. Consequently,
these blows are considerably difficult to resolve. Group work offers at least some hope in this resolution but a number of other therapeutic approaches are important as well.
Of foremost consideration in treating the impacts of divorce is evaluating the exact extent of those impacts. This can vary dramatically according to
a number of factors. Of 2,194 children in the ninth grade with a mean age of 15.9 years who participated in one Finnish study, for example, one percent experienced
parental divorce every year (Palosaari and Aro, 1994). Some of this group had experienced parental divorce prior to their reaching school age, others in latency and others in adolescence