Are interventions supporting separated parents father inclusive? Insights and challenges from a review of programme implementation and impact

Philip, Georgia; O′Brien, Margaret

doi:10.1111/cfs.12299

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“…As is the case in the Men's Story Project, a key aim is for the stories told by children, mothers, and fathers to reflect on the personal and familial costs of violence, abuse, coercive control, and other acts of oppressive intimacy. Notably, when children's accounts of their experiences of parental conflict, coercive control, and/or violence feature in separated parenting programs, they have been shown to act as ‘wake‐up calls’ and ‘light‐bulb moments.’ prompting parents to reassess their thoughts and actions (Philip & O'Brien, ; Robertson & Pryor, ).…”

Section: Recognising Parental Loss Caring About Emotional Pain and mentioning

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A Therapist’s Mandate?: Integrating an Ethics of Care into Custody Law by Recognising and Responding to Post‐separation Parental Loss of Connection with Children

Elizabeth

2019

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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In 1999 Smart and Neale published their seminal book Family Fragments, arguing for the replacement of the ethics of justice that currently informs custody law and practice with an ethics of care. Recognising loss is one of four principles they identify as being key to care-based processes for managing post-separation parenting arrangements. Here they had in mind the non-resident fathers in their study, who were often anxious, angry, and resentful about their diminished fatherhood. Yet gender-neutral custody laws and the greater prominence given to shared care across the West means that increasing numbers of separated mothers are also experiencing diminished connections to their children, either by becoming non-resident parents or through shared care arrangements. Research into post-separation fathers' and mothers' experiences of loss and grief in relation to their children is sparse and largely consists of small-scale qualitative studies focusing either on fathers or mothers. Nonetheless, these studies show that the grief talk of post-separated parents is strikingly similar, except that mothers who become non-resident parents commonly talk about a sense of stigma and shame, while fathers are more likely than mothers to resort to the language of anger and rights. Despite Smart and Neale's call roughly 20 years ago, custody law systems across the West continue to neglect parents' need for recognition and support. This paper seeks to rectify this social neglect through describing a dual program of therapeutically informed interventions with separated mothers and fathers. This is designed to recognise and respond to parental loss and grief experiences, whilst simultaneously fostering personal self-reflexivity and transformation. The latter is no easy task but is frequently an essential basis for workable co-parenting post-separation.

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Section: Recognising Parental Loss Caring About Emotional Pain and mentioning

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A Therapist’s Mandate?: Integrating an Ethics of Care into Custody Law by Recognising and Responding to Post‐separation Parental Loss of Connection with Children

Elizabeth

2019

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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“…When the same team conducted a national evaluation of the CANParent trial (which included a specific aim to recruit more fathers), the proportion of fathers was only 9% of the 2,956 participants (Lindsay et al, ). Although there is growing evidence of (the lack of) fathers' participation in parenting programmes, it remains common for programmes not to disaggregate attendance and engagement figures by gender that can obscure any differences between mothers and fathers (Philip & O'Brien, ).…”

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“…not to disaggregate attendance and engagement figures by gender that can obscure any differences between mothers and fathers (Philip & O'Brien, 2017).…”

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Making fathers relevant: How practitioners include both parents in talk about parenting programmes

Symonds

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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Parenting programmes are recommended as an effective means to support parents in promoting positive relationships with, and managing the behaviour of, their children.One barrier that impedes their successful implementation is that partners, especially fathers, are less frequently recruited by child welfare services. This article reports on a study that investigated how both parents were engaged with parenting services.Direct recordings were made of initial telephone conversations between six practitioners and 28 parents referred to those services and investigated for evidence of how the other parent was recruited. Conversation analysis was used to identify how participants introduced the possibility of both parents being included in the service, how these possibilities were negotiated, and what eventual agreements were made for both parents to be included in future arrangements. Implications for practice, training, and future research are considered.

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Is the Egokitzen post-divorce intervention program effective in the community context?

Martínez‐Pampliega

Herrero

Sanz³

et al. 2021

Children and Youth Services Review

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Are interventions supporting separated parents father inclusive? Insights and challenges from a review of programme implementation and impact

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

A Therapist’s Mandate?: Integrating an Ethics of Care into Custody Law by Recognising and Responding to Post‐separation Parental Loss of Connection with Children

A Therapist’s Mandate?: Integrating an Ethics of Care into Custody Law by Recognising and Responding to Post‐separation Parental Loss of Connection with Children

Making fathers relevant: How practitioners include both parents in talk about parenting programmes

Is the Egokitzen post-divorce intervention program effective in the community context?

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