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The article outlines how school counsellors can help by examining how parents’ decisions disrupt the family system, supporting children through post-divorce developmental tasks, and considering therapeutic options. 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Many of these families  \ninclude children. This article addresses the need for school counsellors to understand the impact that divorce has on children’s lives. Children require a method to deal with unresolved feelings related to divorce. A school counsellor can support children through the separation process by examining how divorcing parents’ decisions disrupt the family system, understanding how children progress through the post-divorce developmental tasks, and exploring possible therapeutic approaches.  \nSeparation and divorce affect many children. The children experiencing their parents’separation or divorce may feel depressed, confused, guilty, and stressed (Pehrsson et al. , 2007) . Parents also feel stressed during separation and divorce, and are often unable to recognize how their behaviour is affecting their children. It is important for guidance counsellors to have knowledge regarding divorce, in order to help the children of divorce create coping strategies. This article examines how divorcing parents’ decisions disrupt the family system and how school guidance counsellors can support children through the separation process.  \nThe Parents  \nWhen parents divorce, they typically have been through a series of events that have led them to the decision to separate. An actual divorce or separation indicates that marital conflict, unhappiness, or dissatisfaction has reached a critical level for a given couple (Acs, 2007) . There may be many reasons for divorce; however, the job of being a parent continues (Strohschein, 2007) . Family interactions, such as family dysfunction and parental conflict, not only predict and precede marital dissolution, but also take a toll on children’s mental health. Therefore, it is important for parents to rear their children in a positive, supportive manner rather than in a negative, hostile manner.  \nParents become divorced for many reasons. At the beginning of a relationship, individuals are aware of their partner’s deficiencies (Kluwer & Johnson, 2007) . Relationship distress starts with problems that existed in the beginning of the relationship, such as incompatibility in personality and high levels of conflict. However, the frequency of conflict may not be the only cause of lower relationship quality. Relationships end through divorce for several other reasons. One reason is financial (Osborne et al. , 2007) . Schilling (2000) also discussed three additional reasons: people change, infidelity, and illness. Regardless of the situation, anything that diminishes the real or perceived gains to marriage constitutes a risk factor for marital disruption (Teachman, 2002) . Divorce may be a sobering alternative to personal unhappiness, financial instability, and emotional liability (Pehrsson et al. , 2007) .  \nInevitably, it will end the relationship between the parents; however, the relationship between parent and child will continue.  \nThe behaviour of parents greatly influences how children adjust emotionally after the separation (Manitoba Family Services and Housing, n.d.) . It is sobering for parents to hear that it is not necessarily the divorce, but their behaviour and quality of their co-parenting that continues to echo throughout the family system (Ahrons, 2006b) . If parents have a good relationship with their children and the children feel the parents’ love and acceptance, the children can tolerate parenting imperfections (Manitoba Family Services and Housing) .  \nHowever, some imperfections are not easily tolerated by children: unpredictability, parental conflict, and parentification.  \nAn important challenge for parents is avoiding unpredictability. Inconsistent parenting is likely an important aspect of unhealthy family functioning in general (Thomson Ross & McDuff, 2007) . Although flexibility is necessary, so is de","cbCaiaetCHNKHufW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaetCHNKHufW","pdf",263989,"English","# The School Counsellor and Divorce: A Child’s Perspective\n## Abstract\n## The Parents","[{\"question\":\"How does divorce affect children according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"Children may feel depressed, confused, guilty, and stressed. 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