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Module 9 Reveiwing Your Competencies
Module 9 Reveiwing Your Competencies
4. Discuss the development of social cognition, in particular, social roletaking and interpersonal awareness.
Social role-taking
10. Discuss the impact of divorce on children and describe methods for
helping children cope with divorce.
Divorce is especially taxing on children because it disrupts one of the
core relationships in their lives and dissolves the family structure they
depend on for secure development. Children experience a series of stressors
when their parents divorce; hostilities between parents, distraught custodial
parent, loss of relationship with noncustodial parent, parent dating,
remarriage, and possible poverty associated stressors. In the presence of
such extreme stressors, childrens energy is diverted from their own needs
to worries about security, safety, and survival for themselves and their
loved ones. To help children cope with divorce, parents can provide adequate