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Supporting Children Through Family Change: A Review of Interventions and Services for Children of Divorcing and Separating Parents
Supporting Children Through Family Change A Review of Interventions and Services for Children of Divorcing and Separating Parents Author:Martin Richards, Joanna Hawthorne, Julie Jessop, Jan Pryor Many children experience upset during parental conflict, separation and divorce and for some there may be persistent negative consequences. The growing appreciation of these difficulties that children may suffer has led to the development of a wide variety of procedures, activities and programmes intended to ameliorate or prevent adverse outcome... more »s. The report provides a description of background research and an analysis of existing programmes in the UK and in Scandanavia. It describes and analyses such programmes for their effectiveness and considers the extent to which they are grounded in the research on the effects of parental divorce and our knowledge of children's understanding.« less