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Navigating Emotional Currents in Collaborative Divorce: A Guide to Enlightened Team Practice |
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| "This is the book the Collaborative community has been waiting for: an accessible, practical grounding for Collaborative lawyers (as well as financial and allied professionals) in how to bring to our conflict resolution work something of the psychological understandings and skills that we so admire and envy in our mental health colleagues.... This book is the first of its kind, and it has transformative potential." Pauline H. Tesler, Esq.
Collaborative Lawyer and Trainer
Co-founder and first President of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Author of Collaborative Law: Achieving Effective Resolution in Divorce without Litigation |
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Designed to help all professionals -- lawyers, as well as mental health professionals, financial neutrals, etc. -- who practice in the area of Collaborative Divorce, this important new book explains how marital dynamics (both conscious and unconscious), combined with the traumas of both the current divorce and those resulting from previous situations, will be re-enacted within the Collaborative process. If these traumas and dynamic re-enactments go unaddressed, misunderstood or unmetabolized by the team they can impede progress, create difficulty in team functioning, result in a compromised agreement, or cause a complete break-down of the process itself.
Navigating Emotional Currents in Collaborative Divorce offers both a theoretical and practical roadmap for navigating the Collaborative process from an emotional point of view. The authors, Kate Scharff and Lisa Herrick, recognize that readers will come to the book with varying degrees of psychological savvy and self-awareness. The book's goal is to sensitize all team members to the importance of attending to and working with their clients' emotional needs, and to give them the tools to do so in order to achieve the best result.
In presenting this framework for thinking about divorcing clients and how best to work with them, Scharff and Herrick make these key assumptions:- The ways our clients think, feel, and behave are often driven by unconscious factors;
- Those unconscious factors play a strong, sometimes problematic role in the course of a Collaborative case; and,
- It is only by developing an understanding of the dynamics underlying our clients' patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that we can help them to navigate the Collaborative process.
The authors examine the psychological underpinnings of the Collaborative process itself (why we do what we do), the ways in which individual professionals and their teams are affected by the emotional make-ups of their clients, and the issues of assessment and technique. One might wonder how relevant it is to their divorce practice that the author venture into what might feel like psychotherapeutic terrain. The primary answer is that unless you understand all the reasons that a couple becomes a couple, you can't understand what happens to them as their marriage unravels.
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"All Collaborative professionals wanting to improve their case outcomes should read this book."
Peggy Thompson, Ph.D.
Co-founder, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
"This is an important work for Collaborative professionals to read together with their colleagues. In their fresh and engaging style, the authors give clear examples to illustrate the complicated scenarios that arise in Collaborative Practice and offer constructive solutions for working together optimally."
Suzanne L. Brunsting, Esq.
Collaborative Lawyer and Trainer
"Boldly going where none have gone before, the authors have courageously engaged with the new and unfolding area of Collaborative Practice. In doing so they have ventured beyond the basic structures to bring us fresh conceptualizations, brought to life through illustrative vignettes describing characters that are ever so familiar to the experienced practitioner. Their ideas are original, theoretically sound and will be very useful to this ever evolving community."
Susan Gamache, Ph.D.
Senior Practitioner and Trainer in Collaborative Practice
Original Mental Health Co-Chair, Vancouver Collaborative Separation and Divorce Group
"A masterful integration of the secrets of effective psychotherapy applied to the Collaborative context ... a compassionate and enlightening approach that gives practitioners a detailed map to successfully navigate the landmines planted by the personality dynamics of clients and professionals. ... a truly pathbreaking work."
Richard A. Warshak, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Scharff and Herrick's contribution will raise the level of practice throughout the Collaborative community."
Anne (Jan) W. White, Esq.
Pasternak & Fidis, P.C.
President, D.C. Academy of Collaborative Professionals
"A book that every Collaborative professional should keep as a handy reference, no matter what their profession or skill level ... [the authors] have put on paper what others of us on the Collaborative team who are not trained in [their] profession often have difficulty identifying or articulating as we run into emotional issues within our Collaborative cases."
Lonnie J. Broussard, CFP®
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst"
Founding Faculty Member, Collaborative Practice Training Institute
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