HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Truancy, Meta-Communication, Shoplifting

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1070
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Not divorce per se but how the transitions surrounding the divorce process are managed within the family system talk about the divorce transitions rather than divorce per se. Basic overview of how divorce transitions impact on children. Bad for kids, growing up in a high conflict environment that continually raises the anxiety of kids. Stages in the divorce process transition periods (ahrons): Stages themselves speak to certain potential sources of anxiety in the life of the child and in the family that can spill over to the child. Separation - separated residencies, family is altered, dramatic for children, many variations. General discourse on transitions and anxiety, anger and behavior problems in kids general point needs to be emphasized that the most of what we call problems reflect a child"s attempt to reduce the anxiety that they are experiencing. To amplify on this point we need to understand the sources of anxiety and how problems are attempted solutions.