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The Roles of Mental Health Professionals in Divorce
Our traditional legal system, based on the adversarial model, does not work well when handling family disputes, such as divorce. Indeed, involvement in the legal system with its emphasis on guilt and innocence tends to foster competition and confusion between divorcing parties. Within the traditional model, there is a continuum of opinions about the value of psychological counseling as part of the legal divorce. The views can range from the attorney measuring the legal feasibility of doing what the client wants without paying attention to (or feeling poorly equipped to handle) the psychological and interpersonal issues in divorce, to an assumption that the legal aspects of a divorce situation can be adequately dealt with only if the emotional aspects and need to understand the client are engaged by the lawyer. Somewhere in the middle lies the idea of using mental health professionals to de-escalate conflict, supporting the belief that other professionals should play only those roles explicitly delegated by the lawyer.
With the changing culture of divorce, contributed to in large part by the Collaborative movement and its view that the adversarial process is grossly inappropriate for the resolution of most marital disputes, the importance of the emotional divorce has taken on new meaning. “When the goal of ending a marriage is minimal emotional damage to the family, Collaborative divorce is considered”. The Collaborative model’s philosophy is that divorce is less likely to seriously traumatize the dissolving family when both the legal and emotional issues of divorce are addressed. Attorney-mental health coach teams are used as an effective vehicle to help minimize the stress of the divorce experience.
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- Posted on: 2018-09-25 08:31:44
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