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Preventive Interventions for Children of Divorce: A Developmental Model for 5 and 6 Year Old Children

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Implemented and evaluated a preventive intervention for kindergarten and first grade children of divorce. Structure and content of the 12 session Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP) was tailored to the developmental characteristics of 5 and 6 year olds. Pre-post comparisons of demographically matched groups of 37 CODIP participants, 26 non-program divorce controls and 39 children from non-divorced families yielded improvements for the experimental group on teacher, parent, child and group leader measures of adjustment. Limitations of the study and directions for future research, including a follow up study, are discussed.

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Pedro-Carroll, J.L., Alpert-Gillis, L.J. Preventive Interventions for Children of Divorce: A Developmental Model for 5 and 6 Year Old Children. The Journal of Primary Prevention 18, 5–23 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024601421020

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