Families in Transition - CFR Post-Graduate 5 Week Course

Registrants will have the choice of attending in person at CFR's University City Office or virtual through a Zoom link.  If you plan to attend in person, you must email kseitz@councilforrelationships.org at least 48 hours before the class begins.

The phenomenon of divorce has a large presence in modern-day America. Most clinicians will encounter the following constellation of issues in their practices: 1) couples and individuals making decisions about whether to stay in their marriages; 2) families struggling at the brink or in the midst of the divorce transition; 3) children and adult children of divorce, and 4) post-divorce families dealing with single, shared, and step-parenting.

This course will delineate the stages of the divorce process in its functional and dysfunctional aspects, as it unfolds for the adults and the children in the family, as well as for the family as a whole. It will also consider the special strengths and limitations of the different forms that the post-divorce family can take. We will discuss family dynamics and treatment approaches for adults in conflict and for children under stress. The class will also cover treatment modalities such as mediation, co-parent counseling and parent coordination so that attendees can be well-informed about the options available to help the divorcing and divorced families with whom they may work.

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