271 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
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Professionals who work with divorcing couples and their families will be inspired by this important book on effective clinical assessment and intervention. The book blends a variety of expert contributions--descriptive, theoretical, and empirical--into a practical handbook that focuses on resources for dealing with the anger and pain of parting spouses and disrupted childhoods. A rich array of... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- I. Background
- The Developmental Course of Conflict in the Marital Dissolution Process
- The Grief Resolution Process in Divorce: Phase II
- Divorce: Three Different Experiences for Three Different Families
- II. Dysfunctional Marital Patterns
- The Ambivalent Spouse Syndrome
- A Comparison of Men Who Are Divorce Prone With Those Who Are Marriage Phobic
- III. Defining the Range of Dysfunctional Patterns in Children
- Children of Divorce: The Question of Clinically Significant Problems
- Who Are the “Normal” Children of Divorce? On the Need to Specify Population
- Children and Divorce: The “Negative” Identification
- IV. Developmental Features in Children of Divorce
- “Where Is My Daddy’s House?” Preschool-Age Children of Divorce and Transitional Phenomena--A Study
- Depression in Children From Single-Parent Families
- Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Suicide: Does Knowledge That the Parents Are Divorced Make a Difference?
- Young Adult Children of Divorced Parents: Depression and the Perception of Loss
- V. Family Reorganization
- Recoupling: Development and Establishment of the Spousal Subsystem in Remarriage
- Defining Post-Divorce Remarriage Families: A Typology Based on the Subjective Perceptions of Children
- VI. Group Treatment Models for Divorcing Populations
- The Long-Term Effects of Divorce: Mothers and Children in Concurrent Support Groups
- Group Work With Emotionally Attached or Ambivalent Spouses in Process of Separating, Separated, or Recently Divorced
- An Evaluation of the “Recovery of Hope” Program
Biography
Craig Everett (Arizona Institute for Family Therapy, Arizona, USA) (Author)
