Complete Group Counseling Program for Children of Divorce

Book excerpt: For guidance counselors, social workers, nurses and others who work closely with elementary students troubled by problems of divorce, this unique new resource presents 12 ready-to-use, school-tested group sessions with background information and reproducible materials to help children who are struggling to cope with and accept changes in their families. The sessions are preceded by guidelines for establishing divorce groups, ideas for beginning and ending each session, suggestions for responding to the confusion children may express, and case studies with actual examples of the children's questionnaires and artwork. Each of the 12 group sessions provides ready-to-use lesson plans and reproducible activity sheets that can be copied as many times as needed: general background on divorce, why parents marry and divorce, changes, two houses, feeling angry, feeling guilty, the grieving process, legal issues, stepparenting, a happy marriage, review, achieving closure.