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    The divorce rate has risen above 50% and students are dealing with the effects of divorce in schools. School counselors can help identify these students and assist them with coping and academic success. Symptoms students may exhibit include emotional reactions, feelings of guilt, sadness, withdrawal, regressive behaviors, and psychosomatic complaints. Counselors can help alleviate fears, eliminate guilt, improve mood, decrease acting out, and get students behaving at their appropriate age level. They should encourage expression of feelings, develop a timeline, explore sources of guilt, ensure parent attention, establish routines, discuss pleasurable activities, demonstrate care, use expressive techniques, address common problems, and connect students to support groups.

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    The divorce rate has risen above 50% and students are dealing with the effects of divorce in schools. School counselors can help identify these students and assist them with coping and academic success. Symptoms students may exhibit include emotional reactions, feelings of guilt, sadness, withdrawal, regressive behaviors, and psychosomatic complaints. Counselors can help alleviate fears, eliminate guilt, improve mood, decrease acting out, and get students behaving at their appropriate age level. They should encourage expression of feelings, develop a timeline, explore sources of guilt, ensure parent attention, establish routines, discuss pleasurable activities, demonstrate care, use expressive techniques, address common problems, and connect students to support groups.

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    The divorce rate has risen above 50% and students are dealing with the effects of divorce in schools. School counselors can help identify these students and assist them with coping and academic success. Symptoms students may exhibit include emotional reactions, feelings of guilt, sadness, withdrawal, regressive behaviors, and psychosomatic complaints. Counselors can help alleviate fears, eliminate guilt, improve mood, decrease acting out, and get students behaving at their appropriate age level. They should encourage expression of feelings, develop a timeline, explore sources of guilt, ensure parent attention, establish routines, discuss pleasurable activities, demonstrate care, use expressive techniques, address common problems, and connect students to support groups.

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    DIVORCE REACTION

    The divorce rate has risen to over 50%. Students in our schools are dealing with the
    symptoms of divorce. School counselors can play a vital role in assisting school
    staff in identifying these students and helping students cope and achieve success in
    school.

    Symptoms
    1. Emotional reactions (crying, begging, temper outbursts) around separation or
    transferring from one home to another
    2. Feelings of guilt; belief that they were somehow responsible for the
    divorce/separation
    3. Strong feelings of sadness combined with social withdrawal and academic
    decline
    4. Marked increase in acting out and regressive behaviors (thumb-sucking, bed-
    wetting)
    5. Pseudo maturity by suppressing emotions of divorce and assuming parental roles
    6. Psychosomatic complaints in response to sadness, stress or frustration

    Cause
    1. Parents were divorced or separated

    Goals
    1. Alleviate fears of abandonment
    2. Eliminate feelings of guilt that reflect blame for parents’ divorce/separation
    3. Elevate and stabilize mood.
    4. Decrease acting out and regressive behaviors
    5. Eliminate psychosomatic complaints 6. Behave at age-appropriate level

    How to Help
    1. Encourage the student to express their feelings associated with the
    separation/divorce
    2. Develop a time-line of student’s significant developments or changes in their life
    3. Explore factors contributing to student’s feeling of guilt about the
    separation/divorce
    4. Encourage parents to give their child an allotted time of undivided attention each
    day
    5. Assist parents in establishing a routine of positive activities for the student
    6. Explore with student the pleasurable activities that could be pursued
    7. Demonstrate genuine interest and positive regard to promote self-esteem
    8. Use art, play or role-plays to help the student express their feelings about the
    divorce
    9. Identify common problems associated with divorce/separation
    10. Place student in separated family group
    11. Discuss positive ways family and friends can help in adjustment

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