A comprehensive guide to divorce counseling for therapists and all helping professionals, Divorce Doesn't Have to Be That Way is packed with intervention procedures for all key elements of the divorce counseling process, from decision to legal issues. Written specifically for helping professionals who want to give healthy support to their clients: the emphasis is on a family-centered, non-adversarial approach. Among the key topics: working with "problem" personalities, domestic abuse, custody, alternatives to litigation. Therapists will find the "critical entry points" and the guide to avoiding common "helper traps" uniquely valuable. Contents: Introduction: It Doesn't Have to Be That Way Chapter 1 - How Might Things Have Gone Differently? Chapter 2 - Laying the Groundwork Part 1: Divorce is a Process Chapter 3 - Laying the Groundwork Part 2: Helping Principles Chapter 4 - Uncoupling Chapter 5 - Helping the Individual Chapter 6 - Domestic Abuse Chapter 7 - Parenting and Divorce Chapter 8 - Parental Alienation Chapter 9 - Children and Divorce Chapter 10 - The Legal Process and the Players Chapter 11 - Avoiding the Traps A Final Word Bibliography Appendices Appendix 1 - Interview Questions for Assessing Domestic Violence -- Adult Protocol Appendix 2 - Interview Questions for Assessing Domestic Violence -- Child Protocol Appendix 3 - Developmental Issues and Parenting Plan Guidelines for Children of Divorce Index About the Author: Jane Appell, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Concord, Massachusetts. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Tufts New England Medical Center and the president of Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem. She has over 30 years of experience working as a therapist with children, adults, couples and families at all stages of the divorce process. In addition to providing psychotherapy, she specializes in working with high-conflict divorcing families as mediator, parenting coordinator, divorce coach or child custody evaluator. She frequently conducts training programs and speaks at professional conferences concerning divorce. The remarried mother of two children, she resides in Massachusetts. |