Parent training for divorced parents

Faced with the increase in separations and divorces, parent training could be an intervention to support the exercise of the parental functions. The reflections on how to carry out this training started with the identification of some educational needs of divorced parents. To do this, focus groups were held, during which the participants told their stories of separation and divorce. Three macro categories of needs emerged from the research: need to rebuild and redesign one's self; need to reach shared parenting; need for discussion, to have time and space for exchange with other parents who have experienced separation and divorce. Parent training can be an answer to these needs. It starts from the recognition of parents’ skills and resources and encourages them to find unprecedented opportunities for growth in adversity. Four seem to be the cornerstones of a parent training that can support families and parents in their educational tasks: experience, reflection, social and action. Understood in this way, the training supports the parents in confirming, developing, questioning their own practices and educational interventions.