Supporting children through separation and divorce
For parents in particular, it’s acknowledged that levels of stress can become unbearable as they struggle to cope with helter-skelter emotions, all the practical challenges that sole parenting presents, along with often guilt-ridden concern around how their children are coping.
In the words of the creator of the US Sandcastles programme for children of divorce, US psychotherapist M Gary Neuman, divorce often brings a landslide of new problems to parents’ doors at a time when their ability to cope has never been worse.
