Strengths-building public policy for children of divorce.

Braver, Sanford L.; Hipke, Kathleen; Ellman, Ira Mark; Sandler, Irwin N.

doi:10.1037/10660-004

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“…After a thorough review of the empirical research literature, Grych (2005) concluded that prevention programs designed to improve parent‐parent relationships after divorce should be a part of the menu to protect children from the negative effects associated with divorce. Integrating proven programs for divorcing families into family courts is the next challenge facing preventionists (Braver, Hipke, Ellman, & Sandler, 2004). Our results suggest that Dads for Life presented to volunteering fathers offers substantial promise to courts hoping to alter the trajectories of divorcing families.…”

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Effects of the Dads for Life Intervention on Interparental Conflict and Coparenting in the Two Years After Divorce

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The ability of parents to forge harmonious coparenting relationships following divorce is an important predictor of their children's long-term well-being. However, there is no convincing evidence that this relationship can be modified through intervention. A preventive intervention that we developed, Dads for Life (DFL), which targeted noncustodial parents as participants, has previously been shown in a randomized field trial to favorably impact child well-being. We explore here whether it also has an impact on mothers' and fathers' perceptions of coparenting and interparental conflict in the 2 years following divorce. Results of the latent growth curve models we evaluated showed that both mothers and fathers reported less conflict when the father participated in DFL as compared with controls. For the fathers, perceptions of coparenting did not change over time in either the DFL or control conditions. Alternatively, mothers' perceptions of support declined over time in the control group, whereas those whose ex-husbands participated in the DFL program reported significant positive growth change toward healthier coparenting. The positive findings for mothers' reports are particularly compelling because mothers were not the participants, and thus common alternative explanations are ruled out. The DFL intervention, then, offers courts a promising program to improve families' functioning after divorce.

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“…Third, the domestic relations court has considerable authority to impact parents' and children's lives (Braver, Cookston, & Cohen, 2002). Fourth, in recent years, domestic relations courts have developed an array of nonjudicial programs to improve the well-being of parents and children in divorced families (Braver, Hipke, Ellman, & Sandler, 2004), including brief, often mandatory, parent informational programs, which could be used to recruit parents into longer, more intensive programs. Finally, a recent survey of court-based service providers demonstrated the feasibility of delivering programs like the NBP in the courts (Cookston, Braver, Sandler, & Genalo, 2002).…”

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PROGRAMS FOR PROMOTING PARENTING OF RESIDENTIAL PARENTS:  Moving From Efficacy to Effectiveness

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Family Court Review

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This article reviews prevention programs that target primary residential parents as change agents for improving children's postdivorce adjustment. First, we review parental risk and protective factors for children from divorced families, including parenting quality, parental mental health problems, interparental conflict, and contact with the nonresidential parent. Following a discussion of brief informational interventions, we describe the findings of evaluations of three multisession, skill-building interventions for divorced parents. Impressive evidence is presented that parenting is a modifiable protective factor and that improving parenting leads to improvements in children's postdivorce adjustment. We then discuss, in greater detail, the New Beginnings Program, which we highlight because it has shown repeated, immediate effects on children's mental health outcomes as well as long-term effects on a wide array of other meaningful outcomes, such as diagnosis of mental disorder in the past year, externalizing problems, alcohol and drug use, and academic performance. Also, mediational analyses have shown that program-induced changes in parenting accounted for changes in mental health outcomes. The remainder of the article describes a research and action agenda that is needed to successfully implement the New Beginnings Program in domestic relations courts.

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“…For example, an emotionally close relationship with a supportive and authoritative father has been shown to relate to child well-being (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999). Moreover, the factor with the greatest importance for the child's adaptation is the degree of conflict between the parents postdivorce (Amato & Keith, 1991;Braver, Hipke, Ellman, & Sandler, 2004); fathers are one of the two parents who conjointly create this conflict. Thus, there is a plausibly considerable benefit to children that will accrue by a preventive program designed to work with fathers.…”

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Prevention Programs for Divorced Nonresident Fathers

Braver

Griffin

Cookston

2005

Family Court Review

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Divorced nonresident fathers are a promising target for preventive efforts to assist families after divorce. The research literature suggests that such programs should focus both on the frequency and the quality of the child's contact with the father, as well as the quality of postdivorce mother-father relations. Dads For Life ( DFL) is the program for this target group with the most convincing evidence of preventive effects. This eight-week program centers on professionally made videos. It was tested in a randomized trial with 214 families. In comparison to control families, children in families in which the father participated in DFL had significantly lower internalizing problems. The preventive impact of DFL was strongest for the most troubled youngsters.

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Strengths-building public policy for children of divorce.

Cited by 15 publications

References 53 publications

Effects of the Dads for Life Intervention on Interparental Conflict and Coparenting in the Two Years After Divorce

Effects of the Dads for Life Intervention on Interparental Conflict and Coparenting in the Two Years After Divorce

PROGRAMS FOR PROMOTING PARENTING OF RESIDENTIAL PARENTS:  Moving From Efficacy to Effectiveness

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Strengths-building public policy for children of divorce.

Cited by 15 publications

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Effects of the Dads for Life Intervention on Interparental Conflict and Coparenting in the Two Years After Divorce

Effects of the Dads for Life Intervention on Interparental Conflict and Coparenting in the Two Years After Divorce

PROGRAMS FOR PROMOTING PARENTING OF RESIDENTIAL PARENTS: Moving From Efficacy to Effectiveness

Prevention Programs for Divorced Nonresident Fathers

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PROGRAMS FOR PROMOTING PARENTING OF RESIDENTIAL PARENTS:  Moving From Efficacy to Effectiveness