Second Chances
Divorce Process
Risk and Resilience
Single-Parent Households
Famous TV Shows and Movies
100
In Chinese calligraphy, what word is written by joining symbols for danger and opportunity?
What is Crisis?
100
What begins when one or both partners in a marriage determine that the love relationship they hoped for has not materialized or has gone away?
What is the divorce process?
100
Marital instability and divorce introduce a complex chain of marital transitions and family reorganization. What buffer the person or promote resilience in coping with the challenges of divorce.
What are protective factors?
100
Second most common pathway to single parenthood.
What is divorce?
100
American sitcom that aired from 1969-1074 that featured a widowed father with three sons who married a divorced mother with three daughters.
What is the Brady Bunch?
200
This task describes how a family separates in a divorce can help determine the nature of postdivorce years?
What is Ending the Marriage?
200
Period often characterized by feelings of disillusionment, dissatisfaction, alienation, anxiety, and anguish.
What is emotional divorce?
200
Age at marriage, education, household income, race/ethnicity, religiosity, parents' marital history, and community characteristics (i.e., crime rate, community unemployment rate, percent of families in poverty) can contribute to divorce.
What are risk factors?
200
Single most important contribution therapists can make to the functioning of single-parent households is to promote parental ________.
What is well-being?
200
Modern comedy remake of a couple who divorced shortly after their twin girls were born and lost contact. Eleven years later, the twins reunite in summer camp without knowledge of their birth history.
What is The Parent Trap?
300
Which task requires adults to be aware of age and developmental stage at time of divorce when they work through the breakdown of the marriage and all the postdivorce years?
What is Helping the Children?
300
Unlike loss experienced when a spouse dies, individuals headed toward divorce feel a sense of active ______ by a person they have looked to for emotional fulfillment.
What is rejection?
300
Parenting style that works best in divorced households. Characterized by warmth, support, responsiveness, and consistent control and monitoring.
What is authoritative parenting?
300
Most common form of single parenthood (75%); many whom become parents as teens.
What are low income, minority mothers?
300
Television show filmed in mockumentary style in which the the family patriarch Jay Pritchett with adult children married a much younger wife who has a 14-year old son.
What is Modern Family?
400
This is perhaps the single most difficult task imposed by divorce. It requires children to overcome rejection, humiliation, unlovability, and powerlessness they feel when one parent leaves.
What is Dealing with Loss?
400
This process occurs when emotional divorce stage of the divorce ends. It is also when partners begin living separately.
What is physical divorce?
400
In contrast to postdivorce research on parent-child relationships, studies of relationship between ________ are rare. Few studies in this area show that these relationships following parental divorce are generally distressed, marked by patterns of conflict and negativity, as well as disengagement and avoidance.
What is relationship between siblings?
400
Although numerous studies show an association between single parenthood and financial strain, maternal psychological problems, child development, and family functioning, ______ is a known influence on parental psychological functioning, child functioning, and family relationships.
What is poverty?
400
Desperate to spend time with his children after his wife divorces him, this American comedy portrays how one man transforms himself into an elderly housekeeper and takes a job working in the wife's house.
What is Mrs. Doubtfire?
500
This is a major task for children to work through and to recognize their parents as humans capable of making mistakes, and to respect them for their real efforts and courage.
What is Dealing with Anger?
500
Longest period of the divorce process when partners move from being divorced former spouses to single adults. It includes completing the process of grieving the loss of the marriage and the former social network.
What is rebuilding or reestablishment?
500
Most adults and children are resilient and are able to move on and lead satisfying new lives postdivorce. What percentage of families experience lasting adjustment problems?
What is one fourth?
500
As a therapist working with single parents, attention to any of these contacts beyond the parent-child dyad will expand the family's resources and strengthen potential lifelines to the larger system.
What are extended family members, close friends, or wider community groupings?
500
1979 American movie tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son. It won five Academy Awards, including a Best Actor award for Dustin Hoffman and a Best Supporting Actress award for Meryl Streep.
What is Kramer vs. Kramer?
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