HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Family Therapy, Decompensation, Truancy
15 Oct 2016
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Growing up in high conflict household raises the anxiety of children, this stress is not good, can happen with married couples. Divorce is not always bad for children, does not always create high conflict, high stress environment. Sources of anxiety in children associated with transitions, can be stressful. 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. Legal process that draws out/stretches, begins with awareness. Stages in the divorce process transition periods (ahrons): One of the partners begins to experience marital distress, believe there is no hope for the future of their relationship, divorce starts to be seen as more and more likely. Can take about 2 years for divorce to actually happen. Kids experience potentially spillover effect from possibility of divorce.
