Multimedia Divorce Adjustment for Young Children

此申请建议开发DivorceCARE for Young 儿童，一个互动的，多媒体节目，旨在帮助年轻人 六至八岁的学龄儿童，有效地适应他们的 父母离婚或分居。该计划被概念化为一个 扩展到更大的离婚子女调整资源和 教育（离婚护理）计划，一个NIDA资助的离婚套件- 目前正在开发相关的多媒体预防程序， 创新培训系统（ITS）。该计划将包含一套 供青少年独立使用的多媒体儿童模块 学龄儿童，以及专业人员的团体手册 有兴趣进行相应的补充支持小组。 该计划将依赖于互动位移的情况下， 通信电报和其他适合发展的 帮助目标年龄组儿童的心理教育战略 获得改善离婚的关键技能和资源 加强结构性改革第一阶段将确定 程序，概述补充组手册，开发原型 计算机界面，并制作和测试演示光盘。阶段 II包括完成拟议方案和现场测试， 展示功效和产品满意度。 拟议的商业应用： 该项目的商业影响非常有希望。 近150万儿童经历父母离婚 每年，但大多数人没有获得预防计划，以帮助 他们会成功地进行离婚后的调整这款产品将 通过学校辅导员法庭强制离婚 教育班和书商如果发现离婚有帮助， 家庭，其商业可行性显然是巨大的。

This application proposes development of DivorceCARE for Young Children, an interactive, multimedia program intended to help young school-age children six-to-eight years old, effectively adjust to their parents' divorce or separation. The program is conceptualized as an extension to the larger Divorce Child Adjustment Resource & Education (DivorceCARE) program, a NIDA-funded suite of divorce- related multimedia prevention programs currently under development at Innovative Training Systems (ITS). The program will contain a set of multimedia child-modules for independent use on the part of young school-age children, as well as a group manual for professionals interested in conducting corresponding supplemental support groups. The program will rely on interactive displacement scenarios, communication telegrams, and other developmentally appropriate psycho-educational strategies to help children in the targeted age group acquire the key skills and resources associated with improved divorce adjustment. Phase I will define the components and content of the program, outline the supplemental group manual, develop prototypes of the computer interface, and produce and test a demo CD-ROM. Phase II involves completion of the proposed program and a field test to demonstrate efficacy and product satisfaction. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: The commercial impact of the project is extraordinarily promising. Nearly 1.5 million children experience the divorce of their parents annually, yet most do not have access to prevention programs to help them make a successful post-divorce adjustment. This product will be distributed through schools, counselors, court-mandated divorce education classes, and book sellers. If found to be helpful by divorcing families, its commercial viability is clearly enormous.