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Overview of Family Support Partnership Lanarkshire's new Parenting Apart service.
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Parenting Apart
Rosanne Cubitt
Head of Professional Practice, Relationships Scotland
Parenting Apart Facilitator and Family Mediator, Relationships Scotland Family Mediation South Lanarkshire
December 2008
Parenting Apart Groups
Information and skills for parents so that they can help their
children to successfully manage separation or divorce
Parenting Apart Groups
• complement other services and support
• share research and provide information
• develop skills and insight
• normalise separation and divorce
Parenting Apart Groups - Structure
3 hour workshops to groups of parents
information, discussion, practice, DVD, materials
parents can go to the same or different groups
groups run at different times and days
refreshments!
Parenting Apart Groups - Content
The emotional process of separation
What children need and what they need to hear
Developing a working relationship with your ex
Parenting Apart Groups - development
US and Australia In a US study of 10,000 parents, over 90% said that parent education had increased their appreciation of the importance of their child’s relationship with the other parent, and that they would recommend the groups to other separating parents.
Christina McGhee, US Divorce Coach and Parent Educator
Institute of Family Therapy in London
What parents do is the most important determinant of whether
or not children are at risk
The Truth about Children and Divorce, Emery, 2004
Parenting Apart Groups
helping families to thrive,
not just to survive
separation