Separating together : how divorce transforms families
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Separating together : how divorce transforms families
Guilford Press, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-281) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The view offered in this book is to look at divorce not as a catastrophe, but an event that changes families and family members. Using research they conducted with over 100 families the authors describe what the experience of parental separation and divorce is like for the various family members. Case studies and quotations from interviews illustrate how different families handle the process, and what a different experience it is for adults and children in the same household. The book emphasizes the factors that make parental divorce harder and easier on family members, and eveluates for and against many common beliefs.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Psychological Experience of Parental Divorce.Changing Our Minds about Parental Divorce. Studying Family Transformation: Research Designs and the Family Changes Project. The Parents' Stories: The End of a Marriage and a New Beginning. The Children's Stories. Part II How Individual Family Members Adapt to Parental Separation. Parents Adjusting after the Separation: What Helped? Beyond the "Effects of Divorce on Children": Uncovering and Understanding Complexity. Part III Family Dyads, Adjustment and Change. The Mother-Child Relationship: Insider and Outsider Views. When the Conflict Continues: Implications of Parental Conflict in the Postseparation Family. Patterns of Conflict and Parenting in Divorcing Couples. Part IV Parental Divorce as a Family Transformation. Families after Separation: Changing Systems. Wise Families, Wise Changes.
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