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The Invisible Child: Understanding and working with children of divorce, and how the experience of divorce impacts lifelong relationships

This workshop will use a strengths-based approach to help therapists understand the experience of divorce and provide tools to build resilience, support families in mitigating harm and provide healing and growth during the divorce, after the divorce, and in some cases treating the relationship and communication dysfunctions that can show up years later.

For a child experiencing divorce, there is grief, powerlessness, and attachment injury. That is true in the most stable and peaceful divorces; when disputes continue for lengthy periods of time, the trauma is compounded. Adapting to new circumstances and family norms impacts child development in ways that aren't yet fully understood. In addition, the emerging research on moral injury sheds new light on understanding the complex traumas that many children of divorce experience. 

 

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The Invisible Child: Understanding and working with children of divorce, and how the experience of divorce impacts lifelong relationships


Monday, March 3rd, 2025   10:00 AM EST -1:00 PM EST
$59.99 Cost For Member: 39.99 Menachem Hojda LMSW

This workshop will use a strengths-based approach to help therapists understand the experience of divorce and provide tools to build resilience, support families in mitigating harm and provide healing and growth during the divorce, after the divorce, and in some cases treating the relationship and communication dysfunctions that can show up years later.

For a child experiencing divorce, there is grief, powerlessness, and attachment injury. That is true in the most stable and peaceful divorces; when disputes continue for lengthy periods of time, the trauma is compounded. Adapting to new circumstances and family norms impacts child development in ways that aren't yet fully understood. In addition, the emerging research on moral injury sheds new light on understanding the complex traumas that many children of divorce experience. 

 

About the Presenter

Menachem Hojda is driven by the power of belonging. He shares this passion with students as an Adjunct Professor at Touro University Graduate School of Social Work and Field Instructor at University of Michigan School of Social Work. He works with individuals searching for belonging and healing from injuries to their sense of belonging as a clinical supervisor and therapist in private practice, and advocates for a community where everyone can belong as a trainer for Oakland Community Health Network.

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the types of loss experienced by children of divorce.
  2. List three factors contributing to post-traumatic growth in children of divorce.
  3. Define moral injury and its relevance to children of divorce.

Agenda:

Losing your family: The universal experience of divorce (20 minutes)

Pouring salt on the wound: prolonged conflict and attachment injury (30 minutes)

Moral Injury: What is it? And how might it apply to divorce? (20 minutes)

Raising your parents: Role reversals and developmental challenges (20 minutes)

Building resilience (20 Minutes)

Supporting families with mentalization to mitigate harm (20 minutes)

Narrative Exercise (10 minutes)

Post-Traumatic Growth and healing (20 minutes)

Finding an individual identity (20 minutes) 

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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