Strategic Aspects and Potentials in the Haynes Model of Divorce Mediation How Do Requirements of the Mediation Process Empower the Couple to Solve Present and Future Problems?

Abstract

Over the past decade there has been an increasing interest in what is referred to generically as ‘family or divorce mediation’ (Brown and Mandela, 1977, Irving and Benjamin, 1983). This practice is concerned with the process of marital dissolution and involves a structured orientation to separation and termination in a relationship (Haynes, 1984). While superficially the opposite of marriage counselling, it does in fact encompass many of the same dynamics.