196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Phd, Charles Figley