Concurrent Sessions 7 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

304-01: Parents' Intended Strategies For Discussing Divorce With Young Children
Luke T. Russell, Chang Su-Russell, Carley Maruna

304-02: Identifying Assessment Tools of Child-Centered Communication For the Development and Evaluation of Divorce Education Programs
McKenzie L. Zimmermann, Erin J. Guyette, Lindy N. Maska, Melinda Stafford Markham, Anthony J. Ferraro, Tiana Sothers, Melissa Richards

304-03: The Interactive Strategies For Interpersonal Communication Scale (ISICS):  Measuring Technology and Communication Methods of Post-Divorce Coparents
McKenzie L. Zimmerman, Erin Guyette, Lindy Maska, Melinda Stafford Markham, Anthony J. Ferraro, Hilary D. Pippert, Tiana Sothers

304-04: Domains of Ongoing Communication Between Former Spouses: Associations With  Parenting Stress and Children's Post-Divorce Well-Being
Jonathon J. Beckmeyer, Jessica Troilo, Melinda Stafford Markham

Discussant: Raymond E. Petren
Chair: Jonathan J. Beckmeyer

Summary
Although rates of parental divorce have declined over the past several decades (Allred & Schweizer, 2020), because it can undermine child and parent well-being (e.g., Lansford, 2009) it remains an important topic of study among scholars (Raley & Sweeney, 2020) and family life educators (Markham, 2017). This has led to a proliferation of divorce education resources and programs aimed at promoting resiliency among divorced families (Mulroy et al., 2013). The proposed symposium brings together four high quality, theoretically grounded studies with important implications for divorce education resources and programs. Specifically, each study focuses on the topic of communication in the context of parental divorce and authors explicitly tie their findings to divorce education.

Objectives
-- Analyze how family communication shapes post-divorce family systems.
-- Describe the different topics divorced parents communicate about and how they use technology to communicate.
-- Provide insights into how family life educators promote healthy post-divorce family communication.

Subject Codes: family structure, relationship dissolution, transitions
Population Codes: U.S., divorced, Family Life Education
Method and Approach Codes: grounded theory, regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical), measurement development