- PMD: 4,7
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Introduction
- Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- evaluate the current literature surrounding the relationship between divorce and academic performance;
- learn how the age when the child experienced the divorce may influence their academic performance; and
- discuss possible supports that could be utilized to encourage students' performance and achievement through and following a family change such as divorce.
Description
How age and conflict before and after a divorce have an effect on academic performance.
Presenter(s)
Madeleine G. Eaton, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Jeremy Jewell, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville