Addictions
ADHD
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Debt Management
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Divorce
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Women's Issues
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Bloomingdale Psychological Services offers psychological,
financial, legal, and career counseling for individuals and families
in transition. Support and services are provided for those
undergoing emotional and financial stress due to separation,
divorce, job loss, illness or death of a loved one. Bloomingdale
provides programs and resources which encourage personal growth and
well-being.
Psychological
- Diagnostic assessment
- Individual, couple or family counseling
- Group therapy
- Support Groups
- Workshops
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Financial
- Diagnostic assessment
- Individual, couple or family counseling
- Cash management
- Debt reduction
- Workshops
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Legal
- Education
- Mediation
- Referrals
- Attorney accompaniment
- Workshops
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Career
- Assessment
- Goals & values
- Resumes
- Interview training
- Workshops
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Guiding Principles
- Marriage should be maintained, if possible, but divorce is
sometimes necessary or non-preventable an inevitable.
- Relationships and family can be strengthened if personal
growth results from the divorce experience.
- Personal growth and self-awareness are necessities for the
prevention of further divorces.
- Marital separation and divorce are painfully disruptive
experiences for all the involved family and friends.
- Drugs and alcohol are self-defeating reactive behaviors to
divorce.
- Supportive assistance is necessary during the process of
divorce and life reestablishment.
- One's spiritual beliefs fortify during the divorce process and
can be strengthened by the divorce experience.
- Recoupling and remarriage should be delayed until personal
growth and self-awareness have well begun and one's personal life
has been reestablished.
- Legal and psychological knowledge are necessary and beneficial
aspects to learning and coping during the divorce process.
- Divorce mediation is a more beneficial legal alternative than
an adversarial structure.
Positive Guidelines for Coping with Divorce
Divorce is a life crisis that requires a period of adjustment:
- Accept the reality of your divorce as disruptive and painful
for everyone involved.
- Accept the gradualness of recovery. Transition takes time;
focus first on the small steps towards the reestablishment of
your life.
- Commit to taking charge of your life. You cannot always
control the things around you that happen, but you can control
how you react to them. The key to emerging from your divorce
more emotionally healthy is in your attitude and state of mind.
- Minimize the energy you spend on negative thoughts and
feelings and redirect that energy toward positive, realistic
goals, not unrealistic expectations.
- Accept the responsibility for the adjustment of the
children. Concentrate on helping your children (listen, share,
and participate).
- Obtain information about the legal process. Learn what your
rights are and how the system works. Seek an attorney who
prefers to negotiate rather than litigate.
- Accept that you may need help:
- Reach out for support, seek professional help where you
need it, join a support group.
- Become active with your old friends and develop new ones.
Don't avoid friends who were marital couples - new
relationships may be established.
- Try new activities and reactivate old ones. Start a daily
journal and chart your progress.
- Gather resource information - read self help books, attend
seminars and workshops.
- Develop solitary activities that give you pleasure and
focus (hobbies, crafts, reading, videos).
For more information please call Bloomingdale Psychological at
610-688-2737.
Related Support Groups
Separation & Divorce Group
Children of Divorce
Group
Related Workshops
Managing Change
Wallet Watchers
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