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Article: The effects of family conflict resolution on children's classroom behavior.
- Article from:
- Journal of Instructional Psychology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
- Author:
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Fifteen children of recently separated or divorced parents completed a family systems intervention with their custodial parent for purposes of reducing family conflict and improving classroom behavior. A paired-samples t-test indicated significantly improved use of verbal reasoning (p
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More than a third of American children experience their parents' divorce before reaching 18, and under many circumstances, the effects of divorce can have immediate and long-lasting consequences. With more than one million divorces occurring every year (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1996), divorce has become a frequent occurrence in American society.
The negative effects of ...