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A “Good Enough” Separation: Some Characteristic Operations and Tasks
Author(s) -
ABELSOHN DAVID
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1992.00061.x
Subject(s) - normative , psychology , frame (networking) , developmental psychology , social psychology , political science , computer science , law , telecommunications
Perhaps there are advantages, at this stage of our knowledge, to be looking for the adaptive mechanisms of divorcing families where children are involved, rather than focusing primarily on concepts of risk, dysfunction, and disaster. Perhaps what is truly remarkable is that divorcing families are not more disturbed, given the stigmatization, the uncharted nature of this complex upheaval with little normative frame, and diminished financial resources. As a modest offering in this regard, a 3‐year longitudinal study is presented of a nonclinical postseparation family with an adolescent who neither entered nor required treatment. Specifically, their successful resolutions invented for dealing with day‐to‐day divorce dilemmas and challenges are explored.