Divorce Process

Craig Everett (Arizona Institute for Family Therapy, Arizona, USA) (Author)

• Contents IntroductionI. 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