Positive Parenting After Separation (FutureLearn)

In this course you will learn practical techniques for parenting after separation and understand how to meet the needs of children affected by difficult separations and divorces.

What topics will you cover?

- Healthy parenting before and after relationship dissolution

- The parental relationships before and after relationship dissolution

- Problematic issues in post-relationship parenting

- Social and institutional interventions to post-relationship parenting problems

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Identify how parent-child attachments are formed and maintained, the developmental needs of a child, and healthy family role boundaries before and after relationship dissolution

- Identify how parental modeling of adult (and gender) roles affects children and family dynamics, how parenting styles affect outcomes on children

- Evaluate the difference between parental alienation, estrangement and other negative family problems

- Explore how different legal and social systems have handled relationship dissolution (e.g., divorce), family conflict, and custody issues to address post-relationship parenting problems.