Supporting Children Through and After Divorce

Therapists and counselors who work with children and adolescents often see the additional weight and difficulties that divorce creates for them. This course addresses the specific challenges and needs of children and adolescents who are navigating divorce, separation, or restructuring. This course focuses on specific, practical, and family systems-oriented strategies for practitioners to implement with their child and adolescent clients. Specific topics include common impacts of divorce on children, addressing common internalizing and externalizing behaviors, problematic parental behaviors, maximizing protective factors, and the role of the therapist.

Total running time 136 minutes. 2 Hours CE. Recorded Video Format (non-interactive).

Content Advisory: To protect client confidentiality, case examples include fictionalized elements.

ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 2.27 hours 

CE CREDITS:2.00 continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists

TARGET AUDIENCE: Mental Health Practitioners

LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Intermediate

PREREQUISITE(S): None

INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Recorded video format (non-interactive)

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Closed captioning of audio components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS: To obtain your CE certificate, learners must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.

FINANCIAL/COMMERCIAL SUPPORT STATEMENT: This course has no commercial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:  This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.

GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICIES: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.

PARTICIPATION COSTS:  The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.

COURSE CREATION DATE: 12/10/2021

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify at least five common parent behaviors that negatively affect children and adolescents' mental health and well-being during and after divorce.
• Implement at least four practical skills for children who live in two homes.
• Demonstrate at least four examples of neutral language to help children and adolescents articulate their experience during divorce conflict.
• Describe at least three legal complexities therapists may face when working with families navigating the divorce and restructuring process.

1. Research on children and divorce
   1. Key research findings
   2. Factors impacting children and adolescents
   3. Findings are not all negative
   4. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
2. Trauma and divorce
   1. Divorce through a trauma lens
   2. Internalized and externalized behavior
3. Parental behaviors that impact children and adolescents during divorce
4. Protective factors
   1. Relationships
   2. Parental resilience
   3. Social connectedness
   4. Social and emotional competence
5. Enhancing protective factors
6. Our role as clinicians