Parent Educator

At the very beginning of the divorce process, the parent educator provides a brief, three-session model of specific parent training on:

• how to tell the children and adolescents about the divorce.
• what factors impact the adjustment and development of their children during and after the divorce.
• how to handle the transitions children make as they go back and forth between parents’ homes and other changes in the children’s day to day lives as a result of the divorce.

Parent education gives parents the basic knowledge and information they can use to communicate with their children and to make good use of later services such as mediation, counseling, coaching and planning the parenting agreement. In the role of parent educator, Dr. Cradock meets with parents only.