| Abstract: | Separation and divorce traumatically impact the lives of divorcing couples, their children, their relatives, their friends, their working colleagues, their jobs and their church. The couple is forced into a new life style, new roles and independence. Attachment (positive and/or negative) of each panner for the other perdures. Group counseling provides suppon and acceptance to angry, rejected, guiltridden and lonely persons. The group provides the ideal setting for cenain curative factors to take effect: realizing that one is not alone, that help in coping is available, that one can help others as well as be accepted by others, that one can have corrective experiences and catharsis, that one can learn, change and grow. Recommendations are made for similar programs in other communities. |
