Adolescents and Divorce

**understanding our teen their EXPERIENCE - how they might internalize the experince

• anger

• parents empathy

• expectations and flexibility

• period of reorganization

• normal responses

• grief

• they say thier fine/seem normal- link to article understanding: internal vs externalized emotions

How to talk to your teen about divorce

Navigating Changes and transitions: roles, rel, boundaries, parentification, triangling, what yours vs theirs,

-its obvious if your here, that you care deeply about your child/ren and are aware that the expeirnce of divorce effects ever child

Ways to support your teen

• indivi therapy, family therapy, groups

• still be a teen

• Support for Parents

  • individ, family, co-parenting, groups, importance of processing own experince-normalize