Divorce Therapy

Examine a wide variety of divorce therapy approaches with this seminal book. Divorce Therapy is one of the first books to present a comprehensive approach to divorce therapy. Based on a foundation of theory and research about divorce, this landmark volume focuses on the help that psychotherapists can provide during the three stages of divorce--pre-divorce decision making, divorce restructuring, and post-divorce recovery. A distinguished array of researchers and clinicians address discuss mediation, criteria for a constructive divorce, remarriage, custody issues, and much more.

Phd, Charles Figley

Contents I. Introducing This Volume and Divorce Stages as a Framework for Therapy - Introduction: Divorce Therapy - Divorce Stage Theory and Therapy: Therapeutic Implications Throughout the Divorcing Process - II. Focus One: Divorce Decision-Making and Criteria for a Constructive Divorce - Divorce: Dynamics of Decision Therapy - Criteria for a Constructive Divorce: Theory and Research to Guide the Practitioner - III. Focus Two: Restructuring--Therapy for Children, Mediation, and Custody - Family Therapy With Children of Divorce - Divorce Mediation: An Introduction - Systemic Assessment Criteria for Joint Custody - IV. Focus Three: Post-Divorce Recovery and Remarriage - Creating New Realities for the Newly Divorced: A Structural-Strategic Approach for Divorce Therapy With an Individual - From Divorce to Remarriage: Implications for Therapy With Families in Transition - Sibling Relationships in Families of Divorce - V. Comprehensive Views of the Field - The Comprehensive Divorce Treatment Center: The Divorce and Marital Stress Clinic Model - Divorce and Divorce Therapy: An Annotated Bibliography