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Dr. Pedro-Carroll is internationally recognized as a leading expert on children and divorce. She shares her expertise through consulting and training, as well as at professional conferences and public presentations, and serves as an advisor to the Sesame Street initiative: Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce. Dr.
Pedro-Carroll’s positive
approach is filled with hope,
optimism, personal warmth and
great compassion for parents and
children alike, and for those
who help them through trying
times.
As a developer of award-winning,
evidence-based programs for
children of divorce and for
parents, she brings a depth of
understanding and experience to
those who use her services.
These include:
- mental-health
professionals
- teachers, counselors and
other school professionals
- parents and parent
groups
- legal professionals
- others who seek to
protect the well-being of
children whose families are
in the midst of major family
transitions
These are among the topics on
which she consults, trains, and
speaks:
- Parenting programs
- The development and
implementation of
evidence-based programs that
help divorcing and divorced
parents learn how to contain
conflict and change their
relationship to professional
parenting partners focused
on the best interests of
their children.
- Preventive
intervention programs for
children - The
development and
implementation of programs
that provide children with a
safe haven to express their
feelings and also help them
gain an accurate
understanding about the
changes in their lives and
develop coping skills.
- Factors that
influence children’s
resilience and those
that put them at greater
risk for long-term problems
following a divorce.
- Interpreting
children’s hidden emotions
and beliefs – the
multitude of feelings,
fears, and misperceptions
that often overwhelm
children during or after a
divorce, but which they
seldom share with their
beloved but beleaguered
parents. She explains not
only what the most common
feelings and beliefs are,
but how to listen carefully
and draw children into
expressing them.
- Parenting plans,
custody decisions—the
factors that influence
positive outcomes for
children.
- Signs of stress at
different stages of
children’s development –
and how to detect and help
reduce children’s stress.
- Telling the children—how
to share the difficult news
of divorce with children at
various ages, and then how
to continue the
conversations through the
multiple changes that
follow.
- Love and Limits: the
Pillars of Quality Parenting
– how to establish and
sustain the two most
critical parenting practices
that promote children’s
well-being
- Peace, Compassionate
Love, Healing and
Forgiveness in Personal
Relationships
- Other topics
tailored to the specific
needs of the client or
audience.
Contact Dr. Pedro-Carroll to
learn more and schedule a
training program, consultation,
or presentation.
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 NAPPA
Gold Award, 2010, National
Parenting Publications Awards
2010 Mom's Choice Awards® Gold Recipient
Putting Children First:
Proven Parenting Strategies
for Helping Children Thrive
Through Divorce
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