Loss After Divorce
The need for the helping professions to develop models for prevention and treatment with the growing number of children who are affected by their parents' divorce seems evident and urgent. This is particularly true for children in remarried families who must deal with the double loss of their first family and their single parent family. Based on secondary sources and the author's experiences with divorced families, this paper suggests ways the social work practitioner can help the child or the parents assist the child with his or her "grief work."