title: [Family therapy in divorce].
abstract: A multi-generational approach to family therapy with divorce families is presented. Parents and children of such families are faced--with special problems during the phases of ambivalence, divorce and post-divorce. Their problems require varying focal points during therapeutic treatment. It focuses on arriving at a decision, finding constructive solutions for practical and emotional problems caused by the divorce ("psychic divorce" and parental cooperation concerning custody and education of the children) as well as supporting individuation and re-orientations. The main aim of therapeutic treatment is to alter the underlying pathogenic patterns of relationships and conflict-solving in order to prevent its repetition in a new partnership or in the next generation. Family therapy with divorce families is complicated to a high degree by aggressiveness, destructivity and resistance against working on central conflicts which serve to avoid feelings of anxiety, shame, guilt, anger and mourning.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universität Göttingen.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bauers
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody; D002667:Child Reactive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004243:Divorce / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation
vernacular_title: Familientherapie bei Scheidung.