The logistics of supporting families, where parents are living apart, can be difficult at the best of times but when there is high conflict situations between parents, it can be extremely challenging to approach.
Research shows that adult conflict significantly lowers wellbeing for children. In fact, it is not divorce, single parenting, or step-families that creates poorer child outcomes; it is deteriorated parenting practices and adult conflict that predict poor child wellbeing. Family scholars have found that even moderate tension between adults significantly diminishes children’s attention, social skills, and immune functioning. Parenting is the primary source of conflict between parents
Claire Ross - Training Manager at Shared Parenting Scotland - will be joining us to discuss her work supporting families in high conflict separations and looking at the challenges of shared parenting, the importance of positive communication, and how to encourage resolution in families.
She will focus on how these themes are addressed through Shared Parenting Scotland's ‘New Ways For Families’ training which promotes positive communication strategies and key tips to dealing with high conflict personalities and ways to reduce confrontation and tension. She will also touch upon their ‘Love, Loss, and Living’ programme that helps support parents that have little or no contact with their children.
The presentation will be followed by Q&As.