ABSTRACT

This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on legal status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Handbook focuses on the often-neglected processes involved as the relationship unfolds, such as infidelity, hurt, and remarriage. It also covers the legal and policy aspects, the demographics, and the historical aspects of divorce. Intended for researchers, practitioners, counselors, clinicians, and advanced students in psychology, sociology, family studies, communication, and nursing, the book serves as a text in courses on divorce, marriage and the family, and close relationships.

part I|2 pages

INTRODUCTION

part II|2 pages

DEMOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF DIVORCE AND RELATIONSHIP DISSOLUTION

part III|2 pages

CAUSES, UNDERLYING PROCESSES, AND ANTECEDENTS OF DIVORCE AND RELATIONSHIP DISSOLUTION

part VI|2 pages

VARIATIONS IN DIVORCE AND RELATIONSHIP DISSOLUTION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES