In response to the increasing number of divorces involving children in recent years, several intervention models have been described in the literature. The educational model is one of these interventions for assisting children in their adjustment to divorce. Children's educational groups have been conducted to foster a healthier understanding of divorce. Educational groups for parents have been used to equip parents with skills for assisting their children. Despite the growing use of divorce education groups as an intervention, there have been no systematic studies comparing the effectiveness of child education to parent education. This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of parent education and child education in facilitating divorce adjustment among children. / Twenty children were recruited for participation in an eight week educational group, while another 14 children participated only in assessment procedures and did not receive treatment. The parents of the group of 14 children participated in a parent education program designed to assist them in working with their children. Both groups of children were compared on behavioral and attitudinal measures to ascertain differences which might have occurred as a result of the two treatments. / This study found no significant differences between parent education and child education on postassessment scores. Drawing conclusions about the relative effectiveness of either treatment, however, should be made in the light of important differences which existed between the two experimental groups on time since separation and divorce. Another confounding variable may have been that too much time had passed for most subjects since parental separation for the treatments to have been effective in impacting such crucial areas as custody arrangements and visitation patterns. Additionally, the lack of adjustment difficulties among most subjects at preassessment may have rendered both treatments ineffective in producing significant change between pre- and post-assessment scores. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-10, Section: A, page: 4306. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74619 |
| Contributors | WORLEY, LEONARD EDWARD, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 145 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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