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Possibly. Dealing with divorce often destabilizes children. Children take divorce personally and feel at fault. Another common pit to avoid is confiding in your children about how bad your spouse is. To children, their mother or father don’t have faults so to thrust the idea that one of them is terrible, cheater, liar, “unfit to live” causes terrible conflict in children’s foundational core and tears at the fabric of a once safe family unit.
VIDEO: Helping Children Deal with Divorce
BOOKS:
Divorce Is Not the End of the World: Zoe's and Evan's Coping Guide for Kids
There are therapeutic providers who only focus on blended family needs. [See referral process] [dealing with divorce], [balance relationships]
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Time management
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Organization
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Initiation and Completion
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Attention
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Metacognition
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Flexibility and Shifting
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Working Memory
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Currently Choose Mental Health does not provide local referrals. However we do offer tips on how to best select a provider in your local market. See Finding A Local Therapist