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