Review by Choice Review
Those seeking an overview of modern American divorce--and especially those offering therapeutic guidance to people coping with this unsettling experience--will find Painful Partings a very informative work. The authors have kept abreast of the most recent social science literature on divorce and have distilled from it a meaningful picture of its procedural elements, and of how divorce affects children, extended family members, and all significant persons in the lives of those divorcing. With a minimum of technical jargon Schwartz and Kaslow provide a psychosocial framework for the clear understanding of American divorce in the 1990s as it occurs over the life course. This book should be invaluable to those in the helping professions who serve this population. The authors skillfully interweave clinical case materials to underscore their analytic points. Rather than challenging existent professional viewpoints of divorce, this work extracts current knowledge to make it clearer to lay people and to mental health practitioners. All levels. W. Feigelman; Nassau Community College
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Review by Choice Review
