Understanding and working with children of divorce, and how the experience of divorce impacts lifelong relationships
This workshop will use a strengths-based approach to help therapists understand the experience of divorce and provide tools to build resilience, support families in mitigating harm and provide healing and growth during the divorce, after the divorce, and in some cases treating the relationship and communication dysfunctions that can show up years later.
For a child experiencing divorce, there is grief, powerlessness, and attachment injury. That is true in the most stable and peaceful divorces; when disputes continue for lengthy periods of time, the trauma is compounded. Adapting to new circumstances and family norms impacts child development in ways that aren't yet fully understood. In addition, the emerging research on moral injury sheds new light on understanding the complex traumas that many children of divorce experience.
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FREE WEBINAR
The Invisible Child:
Understanding and working with children of divorce, and how the experience of divorce impacts lifelong relationships
Previously Recorded
Presenter: Menachem Hojda LMSW
Course Length: 3 Hours
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the types of loss experienced by children of divorce.
- List three factors contributing to post-traumatic growth in children of divorce.
- Define moral injury and its relevance to children of divorce.
This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
This workshop will use a strengths-based approach to help therapists understand the experience of divorce and provide tools to build resilience, support families in mitigating harm and provide healing and growth during the divorce, after the divorce, and in some cases treating the relationship and communication dysfunctions that can show up years later.
For a child experiencing divorce, there is grief, powerlessness, and attachment injury. That is true in the most stable and peaceful divorces; when disputes continue for lengthy periods of time, the trauma is compounded. Adapting to new circumstances and family norms impacts child development in ways that aren't yet fully understood. In addition, the emerging research on moral injury sheds new light on understanding the complex traumas that many children of divorce experience.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the types of loss experienced by children of divorce.
- List three factors contributing to post-traumatic growth in children of divorce.
- Define moral injury and its relevance to children of divorce.
Agenda:
Losing your family: The universal experience of divorce (20 minutes)
Pouring salt on the wound: prolonged conflict and attachment injury (30 minutes)
Moral Injury: What is it? And how might it apply to divorce? (20 minutes)
Raising your parents: Role reversals and developmental challenges (20 minutes)
Building resilience (20 Minutes)
Supporting families with mentalization to mitigate harm (20 minutes)
Narrative Exercise (10 minutes)
Post-Traumatic Growth and healing (20 minutes)
Finding an individual identity (20 minutes)
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0048.
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program. - NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
- NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.