separation (psychology)

Presents interviews with twenty young people who have experienced family breakup through divorce, separation, or death and with two professionals, a child psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker, who discuss the general aspects of the problems and feelings brought out by the young people.

Discusses the meaning of separation and divorce and some of the reasons that relationships come to an end. Also examines the effects that divorce and separation can have on people's lives.

Discusses ways of dealing with the breakup of romantic relationships including advice on how to face one's feelings, accept the change, get over the hurt, and move on with one's life.

Five stories depict different situations in which families have to separate.

Little Maria learns to deal with her parents' separation.

Provides information for girls on how they might feel when a boy ends a relationship, and offers advice on how to deal with those feelings. Includes suggestions from girls who have experienced break-ups.

Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.

While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.