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Digital Seminar

Divorce and Children: Practical Strategies for Keeping Kids at the Center (Not in the Middle of Parental Separation)


Speaker:
Christina McGhee, MSW
Duration:
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Aug 03, 2023
Product Code:
POS059481
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Most mental health professionals understand the all-too-familiar struggle of feeling like a referee rather than an agent of change when working with divorcing parents. Although parents tell us they're focused on their children's best interests, most of us are painfully aware that kids' needs frequently get overshadowed by strong emotions, increased anxiety, and polarization. 


But what if you could offer parents a behind-the-scenes look at the real impact of divorce on children? Imagine being able to motivate your clients to keep their kids at the center, not caught in the middle of their conflict.


In this unique training, Divorce Parenting Expert Christina McGhee will share invaluable strategies and practical tools to help:  

  • Utilize a child-centered approach to help parents make better choices while managing strong emotions 
  • Debunk common myths and perceptions about how divorce impacts children's lives.  
  • Model language that supports the integrity of parent/child relationships  
  • Reframe conversations about critical issues like parenting plans and custody 
  • Learn how to leverage your influence by asking powerful questions, setting intentions, and providing educational support 

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn how to use a child-centered approach as you guide families through this delicate transition. Join us and become a catalyst – let's change divorce for the better.  
 

Credit

Program Information

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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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Full attendance at this live activity qualifies for 1.5 contact hours.

 



Handouts

Speaker

Christina McGhee, MSW's Profile

Christina McGhee, MSW Related seminars and products


Christina McGhee, MSW, is an internationally recognized divorce parenting expert, speaker, trainer, and author of PARENTING APART: How separated and divorced parents can raise happy and secure kids. She maintains a select coaching practice, trains professionals through her Co-Parenting Specialist Certification Program, serves as the education and training director for The SPLIT Outreach Project and is the consulting producer for the documentary films SPLIT: The EARLY Years and SPLIT UP: The TEEN Years.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Christina McGhee is the founder of Divorce and Children, LLC. and has employment relationships with Mosten Guthrie Academy and the SPLIT Outreach Project. She receives royalties as a published author. Christina McGhee receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Christina McGhee has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

 

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Objectives

  1. Utilize your enhanced understanding of the long-term impact of divorce on children to inform your expectation and engagement with separating families. 
  2. Define the benefits of a child-centered approach while staying mindful of your professional role. 
  3. Explore pervasive themes and how they influence children's emotional well-being, view of self and family, ongoing relationship with parents, and their interpretation of divorce. Those themes are flexible over fair, belonging and connectedness, being free of adult worries, how parents relate after the split, and understanding what happened.  
  4. Apply key strategies for leveraging your influence and engaging co-parents in a child-centered process, specifically the skills of – asking powerful questions, challenging expectations around time-sharing arrangements, using a two-home concept, bringing the voice of children into the room, providing education around the impact of conflict, and the strategic use of educational support and referrals. 
  5. Learn critical issues to assess before exposing separating parents to SPLIT films or any other new resources and the value of having a clear intention in mind when offering supportive information.   

Outline

Putting children at the center, not in the middle, of divorce 
  • What is a child-centered approach and why it matters  
  • Rethinking your role and leveraging your influence 
  • Shifting beyond the standard 
How Parental Separation Impacts Children Throughout Their Lives 
  • Preview a clip from SPLIT UP: The TEEN Years    
  • Gain an unfiltered look at how divorce impacts children's lives 
  • Points on introducing resources – parallel processing 
  • Identifying professional biases and perceptions – how they affect our work  
Debunking Myths and Perceptions 
  • How parental separation plays out in the lives of children over time 
    • 5 key issues for children and considerations for guiding parents 
    • Focusing on flexible over fair  
    • The need for belonging and connectedness 
    • Freeing children of adult worries and concerns 
    • How parents relate to one another after the split: shifting from partners to co-parents 
Understanding what happened – what to say to kids and what they're better off not hearing
Transforming Conflict into Cooperation.  
How to leverage SPLIT UP or other resources with co-parents 
Creative ideas for using media to transform conflict into cooperation 
Key considerations before you share SPLIT with clients  
When SPLIT is appropriate and when it's not 
Suggestions for using it in different practice settings

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • School Administrators
  • Teachers/School-Based Personnel
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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