NCJ Number
101114
Journal
American Journal of Family Therapy Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Dated: (1985) Pages: 3-10
Date Published
1985
Length
8 pages
Annotation
Until now, divorce mediation has been considered as simply an alternative method of resolving disputes between separating and divorcing couples.
Abstract
In accepting this view, however, therapist/mediators have incorporated into their thinking, and into their practice of divorce mediation, assumptions consistent with the legal profession's views of divorce, but inconsistent with their own. This paper argues that, properly understood, divorce mediation represents a rejection of a legal model of divorce and substitution of a mental health model and shows how such a model would be applied to the disputes between separating and divorcing couples. (Author abstract)