The Impact of Divorce on Adolescents
The role of the counselor in supporting an adolescent’s development is critical to their socioemotional adjustment throughout their parents’ divorce. By providing a supportive environment, teaching resilience-building strategies, addressing misbehavior, and employing effective theoretical approaches, counselors can make a significant positive impact on the lives of adolescents navigating the challenges of divorce. From the perspective of your specific discipline, write a 1,000-1,250-word analysis of the socioemotional response of adolescents to divorce and custody arrangements. Use the template provided and address the following in your assignment:
- Discuss how a counselor can provide support for all the parties involved. Cite any scholarly references accordingly using in-text citations.
- Explain strategies for promoting resilience, optimum development, and wellness in adolescence. Further your discussion on promoting resilience, optimum development, and wellness in adolescence by discussing cultural and ethical factors that may come into play. Cite any scholarly references accordingly using in-text citations.
- Address how a counselor can approach the issue of an adolescent’s increased misbehavior as the result of divorce. Cite any scholarly references accordingly using in-text citations.
- Building on previous knowledge, expound on a theoretical approach to counseling that works well when addressing issues of misbehavior as the result of parental divorce. Justify your answer using one Christian worldview principle. Cite any scholarly references accordingly using in-text citations.
- Include a minimum of two scholarly sources in addition to your textbook and use APA headings for clarity.
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This assignment is informed by the following CACREP Standards:
- 2.F.3.f. Systemic and environmental factors that affect human development, functioning, and behavior.
- 2.F.3.i. Ethical and culturally relevant strategies for promoting resilience and optimum development and wellness across the lifespan.