Measuring Children's Perceptions of the<i>Families in Transition</i>Program (FIT)

Oliphant, Emmerentie; Brown, James R.; Cambron, Mary Lou; Yankeelov, Pam

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“…Court-related programs seek to teach parents how to reduce the level of conflict children are exposed to, keep children from being caught in the middle of divorce issues, and cultivate positive parent-child relationships that may reduce the negative consequences of divorce. To maintain this parental education focus, we excluded a few studies focused only on children's perceptions of the effectiveness of DPEs (e.g., Oliphant, Brown, Cambron, & Yankeelov, 2002) or experiences of children whose parents attended a divorce education program (e.g., Hans & Fine, 2001).…”

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How Effective Are Court‐affiliated Divorcing Parents Education Programs? A Meta‐analytic Study

Fackrell

Hawkins

Kay

2011

Family Court Review

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In this meta-analytic study, we looked at all empirical studies that examined the effectiveness of court-affiliated divorcing parents education programs (DPEs). Overall, we found that DPEs were generally effective. Nineteen studies with a DPE treatment group and no-treatment control group had an overall significant moderate positive effect (d = .39); those who participated in DPEs were about 50% better off in terms of program outcomes compared to those who did not participate. The studies examined five specific outcomes: co-parenting conflict, parent-child relationships, child well-being, parent well-being, and relitigation; with most of these specific outcomes we found significant moderate effects ranging from d = .19-.61. However, there were important methodological limitations in this body of research, which are discussed. While more research is needed to confirm the positive potential of DPEs, we probably know enough to justify continuing and even increasing support for this recent social policy innovation.

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Section: Selection and Inclusion Criteriamentioning

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How Effective Are Court‐affiliated Divorcing Parents Education Programs? A Meta‐analytic Study

Fackrell

Hawkins

Kay

2011

Family Court Review

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“…Its major goals are to prevent or reduce anxiety, aggression, and depression, and to increase social competencies. A qualitative study of the Families in Transition program showed that children ages 8 to 16 years believed that the program helped them cope with problems associated with parental divorce and assisted them in understanding the behavior of their divorcing parents (Oliphant, Brown, Cambron, & Yankeelov, 2002).…”

Section: Children's Mental Healthmentioning

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A Review of Effectiveness of Group Work with Children of Divorce

Rose

2009

Social Work With Groups

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This article reviews the published studies of the effectiveness of major group work programs, mainly implemented in schools, which address the stressful impact of parental divorce on children. Focused short-term program group work has shown to be modestly effective in helping children of divorce. However, methodological issues exist in regard to the evaluation studies, related to research design, program fidelity, biased ratings, and the overreliance on measures that focus on psychopathology and ignore coping and adaptation.

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“…The majority of the programs are psycho-education classes that range from short videotape discussion to 6-hour seminars (Olphant, Brown, Cambron, & Yankeelov, 2002). Most courts now require these programs on parenting after divorce (Geasler & Blaisure, 1999).…”

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Love during divorce : development of the Sorokin Psycho-Social Love Inventory (SPSLI) and testing of a predictor model.

D’Ambrosio¹

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DEDICATIONThis dissertation is dedicated to:1. My children, Lauren, Robert and Nicoletta, whose love inspires me to live life meaningfull y.2. Os. Japie Vermeulen, who never formally received his PhD because much like me, life held too many other interesting mysteries for him, and he didn't have my mentor to guide him through completion of his dissertation. The scale was developed with a sample of 518 individuals who were going through a divorce or had been through a divorce. It measures high love, low love and hate actions toward a former spouse. The validation of the SPSLI utilized Classical Measurement Theory which allowed for the examination of reliability, face and content validity on the item structure in development of the subscales. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), which is theory driven, was then used to determine if higher order constructs could be found that would measure high and low love and high hate actions toward a former spouse. The results of CF A indicated that while the high love model met the requirements of a reliable and valid scale (high love a=O.92) it was necessary to change some of the v theoretical assumptions followed in the study in order to create a higher order low love scale (low love a= 0.81) and a higher order hate (a=0.86) scale.Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) then guided the development of the structural model which displayed the interrelations among latent variables hypothesized to predict high love actions. Based on the squared multiple correlations, the independent variables were able to explain 24% of the variance in anger toward a former spouse, and 39% of the variance in hate toward a former spouse. After including the mediators, the independent variables, together with anger toward spouse and hate, were able to explain 17% of the variance in emotions and 40% of the variance in altruism. The total model was able to explain 28 % of the variance in love actions toward a former spouse. One of the most significant results of the study was that it was possible for individuals who experienced divorce to express other-regarding love actions toward their former spouses.Altruism and positive emotions led divorcing individuals to show other-regarding love actions no matter whether hate or anger was present.VI

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Measuring Children's Perceptions of theFamilies in TransitionProgram (FIT)

Cited by 5 publications

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How Effective Are Court‐affiliated Divorcing Parents Education Programs? A Meta‐analytic Study

How Effective Are Court‐affiliated Divorcing Parents Education Programs? A Meta‐analytic Study

A Review of Effectiveness of Group Work with Children of Divorce

Love during divorce : development of the Sorokin Psycho-Social Love Inventory (SPSLI) and testing of a predictor model.

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