PO278: Examining Ways Parental Divorce Influences Academic Performance

  • 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…

  1. evaluate the current literature surrounding the relationship between divorce and academic performance;
  2. learn how the age when the child experienced the divorce may influence their academic performance; and
  3. 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

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