In addition to the complexity of divorce, emotional environment and divorce as a repetition of a traumatic experience, the article presents an analysis of a relational family therapy treatment of a client coping with divorce. The focal point is on addressing complications and emotional dynamics where, through the regulation of fundamental affect and articulation of difficult emotions, client’s psychological structure, which had blocked her functionality in the past and, triggered by this traumatic event, escalated to the point of disorder, is transformed. Objectives and guidelines of psychotherapeutic work on all levels and the process of therapeutic treatment which was completed with client’s return to a normal life, are demonstrated. The article is part of monograph Relational family Therapy in Theory and Practice, edited by Simonič, and in the context of other articles (among authors there are other researchers involved in the project) it sheds light on turning points in family life and justifies the effectiveness of psychotherapy according to relational family therapy model.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7112026
With this article, the researcher participated in an international scientific conference, Science and culture for a healthy society, where the latest findings in challenges and problems of contemporary society, especially in the context of psychology, social work, spirituality, pedagogy, and psychotherapy, were also presented by researchers from abroad. The author demonstrated solving parental distress as an important segment of emotional addressing of divorce process within relational family therapy context, where empathic addressing and processing of one’s experience of divorce takes place. By means of analytic method it thoroughly analyses the process of implementing therapeutic tasks in which parental distress is separated from children subsystem and is being effectively transformed, and shows the sequence of events in client process and the consequence of therapeutic interventions in relational family therapy from the beginning (excessive affective reaction) to the final task (a change in implicit awareness).
COBISS.SI-ID: 6867546
The article was presented at an international multi-conference where various researchers can demonstrate their findings within different social dimensions and where interdisciplinary discussions enable setting guidelines for further research and business opportunities and government policies within each social segment. The researchers shed light on short- and long-term impact of divorce for children, parental role as a major factor in prevention of negative consequences, and emphasized the outcomes of divorce in cases of violent and conflictual relationships. They highlighted the perception by adult children of divorcees who participated in the study and added meanings to experiencing their parents’ divorce also in the context of violent and conflictual atmosphere preceding divorce. With this, the authors opened an important discussion of a positive role of divorce as an escape route from violent relationships.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7036762