The effectiveness of two programs consisted of the "rebuilding the life" and "the children of divorce intervention" on the psychological problems of children of divorcing parents.

Barkhordari, Fahime and Berahmand, Usha and Abolghasemi, Abbas and Hajloo, Nader (2016) The effectiveness of two programs consisted of the "rebuilding the life" and "the children of divorce intervention" on the psychological problems of children of divorcing parents. Doctoral thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of two programs “rebuilding the life” and “children of divorce intervention” on psychological state of the children whose parents were getting divorced. The method of the present study was developed experimental and of multi-group pre test and post test type. The statistical population of this study includes all children at the age of 8-10 years old whose parents are living far from each other but are not divorced yet and the children are under the custody of one of the parents. The primary sample of the present study included 54 children but finally the data related to 45 subjects were analyzed. Voluntary sampling method was also used. In the first group, the children’s parents were trained by rebuilding the life program in two groups of 9 in 10 sessions of 90 minutes. In the second group, children were trained by children of divorce intervention in two groups of 9 in 15 sessions of 1 hour. And no intervention was performed in the third group. The used instruments were CIAD (completed by children), PEF and CBEL (completed by parents) that were completed before the intervention and after holding the training courses and 2 months after the last training session at the follow-up step. Descriptive statistics methods such as frequency, mean, standard deviation, and ANOVA with repeated multivariate measure were used for data analysis and testing the hypotheses. The results indicated that both rebuilding the life program and children of divorce intervention program have positive effect on the improvement of psychological state of children including cope with divorce and internalizing and externalizing behaviors and this effectiveness remained stable overtime. In comparing these two programs to each other, it can be said that the mean scores of cope with divorce were higher in the children who were trained with children of divorce intervention program. This result has important implications in the field of training for children of divorce. Keywords: children of divorce, rebuilding the life program, children of divorce intervention.

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