The Divorce Education Intervention Model

Abstract

This article offers a divorce education intervention model that court systems can use to determine the level of programming that fits their goals for divorce education and their available resources. This model includes three levels of education that vary by extent of presenter and parent involvement: basic information, feelings and skills, and brief focused intervention. Eight program components are compared: goals, personnel, strategies, resources, examples, parental involvement, potential outcomes, and limitations.

A Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations: Mental Health and Legal Perspectives

“…Family Therapy also has the risk of being used as a further weapon in the on-going custody battle, since parents often quote therapists (however inaccurately) in their court motions and other legal processes. Blaisure & Geasler (2000) comment that Family Therapy is not an efficient way to address the widespread problems of post-separation families.…”

“…however, and approximately half of the parent education programs nationwide include both divorced and never-married parents (Blaisure & Geasler, 2000). 25.…”

“…Box 36 is based on the classification system introduced by Blaisure and Geasler (2000), modified here by the reviews of existing parent education programs cited in the text above. The discussion in the present text also draws on Blaisure and Geasler's (2000) analysis of resource requirements. It is rather difficult to assess the results of research designed to measure the effectiveness of these parental training programs because the exact nature of the programs being evaluated is not always clear.…”

Parents Forever: Evaluation of an Online Divorce Education Program

“…Sigal, Sandler, Wolchik, and Braver (2011) questioned the evidence of the effectiveness of divorce education programs but ascribed this weakness to the lack of methodological rigor of the existing evaluations, as opposed to inherent flaws in the divorce education model. Blaisure and Geasler (2000) outlined the Divorce Education Intervention Model, which grouped programs based on their dosage, content, goals, and teaching methods. Briefer programs were Level 1, longer programs were Level 2, and more specific and targeted programs were Level 3.…”

Pais por inteiro: avaliação preliminar da eficácia de uma intervenção em grupo para pais divorciados

“…Tais programas visam, por um lado, a redução de padrões comunicacionais e relacionais disfuncionais e destrutivos e, por outro lado, a promoção da criação de novos limites relacionais, novas fronteiras e reorganização dos vínculos emocionais (Blaisure & Geasler, 2000;Cookston, Braver, Griffins, Lusé, & Miles, 2007;Geasler & Blaisure, 1998;Sbarra & Emery, 2006).…”