3. Increase children’s accurate understanding of family changes and clarify divorcerelated
misconceptions. Over several sessions, leaders strive to reduce children’s fears of
abandonment, feelings of responsibility for the divorce, and unrealistic fantasies about their
responsibility for restoring the marriage. Various games, puppet plays, and role plays are
used to increase children’s ability to attribute the divorce to external realities, rather than
internalizing feelings of responsibility for parents’ marital problems.