Effectiveness of Children of Divorce Intervention Program on Children's Adjustment with their Parental Divorce

Divorce is one of the most impor-tant phenomenons of human life that not only undermines the psychological balance of the couple but also to cha-nge the psychological balance of the children, relatives, and friends. The purpose of the present study is to inv-estigate the impact of Children of Div-orce Intervention Program (CODIP).A sample of 26 children of divorce (11 boys and 15 girls) between 7 to 9 ye-ars old was selected through an avai-lable sampling of community. CODIP was conducted on the experimental group over 15 sessions (two sessions per week) once the subjects were ran-domly assigned to control and experi-mental groups and completed three questionnaires including Children’s Ideas about Divorce scale (CIAD), Parent Evaluation Form (PEF) and Group Leader Evaluation Form (GL-EF). Study results based on ANOVA show a significant difference between experimental and control groups (P<0/001). These results indicate that CODIP was effective to increase children's positive feelings and attitu-des towards their parental divorce, re-duced children's negative feelings to-ward their parental divorce, improved children's relationships with their par-ents and peers, and increased problem-solving skills of children.