Abstract

ALPASLAN, Assim Hashim (Nicky). Reframing the death of the marital relationship as an opportunity for growth: a programme for facilitating post-divorce adjustment. Social work (Stellenbosch. Online) [online]. 2018, vol.54, n.3, pp.308-326. ISSN 2312-7198.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15270/52-2-651.

Divorce, symbolically speaking, may be viewed as the "death" of a marital relationship. During post-divorce guidance the counsellor should, amongst other things, allow the divorcee to mourn this relationship loss, facilitate a process where the dissolution of marriage is reframed to unearth opportunities for constructive and personal growth, and to support the divorcee in terms of healthy post-divorce adjustment. This paper proposes a programme for facilitating post-divorce adjustment. Schlossberg's Transition Process Model (1981) is adopted, amongst others, as foundational framework informing the subject matter of the post-divorce guidance programme with the foci of this programme being informed by and based on the post-divorce recovery groups facilitated by the author.

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