Are you going through a difficult period? Do you feel overwhelmed by a situation? Whether you are going through a separation, bereavement, job loss or any other hardship, you are not alone. Our outreach workers are there to listen to you, support you and offer you concrete tools to help you regain your equilibrium.
Marital separation and family breakdown can be accompanied by high distress and sometimes a state of crisis. The support aims to restore equilibrium and start the process of adapting to the separation.
We provide an information and awareness service for separated fathers on:
A significant number of requests for support from men are associated with marital and/or parental breakdown. A lot of these men wait until they are in crisis before seeking help. The way in which distress is expressed during a break-up (e.g. anger, blame, feelings of injustice, minimization of the problem, silent withdrawal) can sometimes create a risk to the physical and mental well-being of spouses and children (appearance of destructive thoughts or behaviours).
The intervention aims to resolve the crisis, promote a return to emotional equilibrium, and start a process of raising awareness of the issues involved in marital/family breakdown in order to better adapt to this new life situation.
Fathers in parental breakdown can sometimes experience a feeling of injustice over legal decisions regarding child custody. Fathers may have an unfavorable perception of their own parenting abilities. They may experience a considerable decrease in their contact with their children after the separation and feel a loss of their sense of identity as a father. The feeling of discouragement related to this situation increases the risk of paternal disengagement, marked by the escalation of these fathers' distress and that of their children.
Convergence provides an information and awareness service on adapting to the psychological shock and distress of family breakdown, children's reactions and needs, parental rights, family mediation, reducing conflicts with the ex-spouse and adapting to the new co-parenting life.
