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Collaborative Divorce: An Effort to Reduce the Damage of Divorce
Author(s) -
AlbaFisch Maria
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.22260
Subject(s) - adversarial system , constructive , honesty , settlement (finance) , psychology , family court , domestic relations , family law , public relations , social psychology , law , engineering ethics , process (computing) , political science , business , computer science , engineering , finance , payment , operating system
Divorce has been trapped in the adversarial system of the courts, a system ill suited to the needs of a family attempting to reorganize itself and still safeguard the well‐being of its members. Collaborative divorce (CD) is a relatively new approach comprising an interdisciplinary professional team trained to help the divorcing family arrive at a financial, legal, and emotional settlement. The CD approach is designed to assist both members of the couple and their children transition into a more constructive future wherein they can still be a family. The structure and adversarial approach of the courts have been replaced by collaborative structures and principles developed to encourage honesty and cooperation. The case presented illustrates how this actually works.