Divorce Treatment Plan: Goals, Objectives, & Example for Mental Health Professionals

Treatment plans are one of the most important clinical documents completed in behavioral health. They provide a structured roadmap that connects a client’s presenting concerns, symptoms, strengths, and treatment needs to measurable goals, evidence-informed interventions, and ongoing progress monitoring. Because divorce affects individuals, co-parenting relationships, and children differently, a well-written treatment plan helps ensure care remains individualized, collaborative, and clinically sound.

Creating an effective divorce treatment plan involves much more than listing a few goals. It requires a comprehensive understanding of the client’s specific circumstances, current stressors, and the evidence-informed approaches most likely to support adjustment and, when children are involved, protect their wellbeing. A strong treatment plan also demonstrates medical necessity when applicable, facilitates communication between providers, and creates objective benchmarks that make it easier to evaluate progress over time.

In this guide, we’ll walk through how to create an evidence-informed divorce treatment plan, discuss what information should be included, provide practical examples of treatment goals and objectives, and review common documentation considerations for mental health professionals. Whether you’re a student, intern, or experienced clinician, these examples can serve as a starting point for developing individualized treatment plans that reflect each client’s unique circumstances.

Key Takeaways

• Divorce treatment plans should be individualized. Effective plans connect the client’s specific stressors, adjustment difficulties, and functional impairment to measurable goals rather than relying on generic documentation. Not every client experiencing divorce has a diagnosable condition; treatment planning becomes clinically relevant once the client has identifiable treatment needs, not simply because a divorce has occurred.
• Divorce is not itself a diagnosis; Adjustment Disorder may be the applicable diagnostic category when full DSM-5-TR criteria are met, but clinicians should evaluate the complete criteria and consider whether another disorder better accounts for the presentation rather than treating it as a default diagnosis for divorce-related distress.
• A large-scale meta-analysis of divorced families found that interparental conflict and post-divorce parenting quality are consistently associated with child adjustment; because the underlying research is correlational, this is best understood as an association rather than a proven causal mechanism (van Dijk, van der Valk, Deković, & Branje, 2020).
• “High conflict” and intimate partner violence or coercive control are not interchangeable; standard co-parenting communication strategies shouldn’t be recommended by default when there’s current violence, coercive control, stalking, intimidation, or credible safety risk, since child- and client-safety considerations take priority over improving cooperative communication.
• Treatment goals should follow SMART principles and connect to evidence-informed approaches, including individual coping-focused work, co-parenting communication skills, and, when children are involved and it’s a good fit for the family’s circumstances, structured parenting programs such as the New Beginnings Program.

View our Counseling Treatment Plan Template, which corresponds with this guide.

Why Treatment Planning Matters for Divorce

Clients presenting with divorce-related concerns range from an individual processing the end of a marriage, to a co-parent navigating ongoing conflict with an ex-partner, to concerns about how a couple’s children are adjusting. While clients often share common features—including grief, identity disruption, and stress connected to logistical and financial changes—every client’s specific circumstances, conflict level, and support system is different. Effective treatment planning helps clinicians organize assessment findings into a personalized course of treatment that reflects the client’s specific presentation rather than a generic “coping with divorce” template.

A comprehensive treatment plan also serves several important clinical and administrative purposes. It supports continuity of care, promotes collaboration between providers, documents medical necessity for third-party payers when applicable, and creates measurable outcomes that can be reviewed throughout treatment. Rather than functioning as a static document completed during intake, treatment plans should be reviewed and updated regularly as the client’s circumstances, such as legal proceedings or custody arrangements, evolve.

Whenever possible, treatment planning should be a collaborative process. Involving clients in identifying their specific priorities—whether that’s individual coping, co-parenting communication, or their children’s adjustment—often increases engagement and treatment relevance. Instead of focusing solely on distress reduction, treatment plans should also build upon the client’s existing strengths and support system, and, when applicable, their capacity to protect their children from the effects of ongoing conflict.

Complete a Thorough Clinical Assessment Before Writing the Treatment Plan

A treatment plan should never be developed in isolation. Before identifying goals or selecting interventions, clinicians should complete a comprehensive assessment to better understand the client’s presenting concerns, current circumstances, and diagnostic picture. Information gathered during the intake assessment provides the clinical foundation for every section of the treatment plan.

For clients presenting with divorce-related concerns, this assessment includes a detailed clinical interview addressing the current legal status of the divorce or separation (pending, in litigation, or finalized), the level of conflict with the co-parent or former partner when applicable, current stressors (financial, housing, custody-related), and screening for depression, anxiety, or adjustment difficulties using measures such as the PHQ-9 or GAD-7. When children are part of the presenting concern, assessment should include how the client perceives their children’s adjustment and current co-parenting arrangements, since interparental conflict is a well-documented driver of child distress independent of the divorce itself.

If you are looking for additional guidance on collecting assessment information before creating a treatment plan, our guides to the Counseling Intake Assessment and Biopsychosocial Assessment provide more detailed recommendations for conducting comprehensive evaluations.

Develop a Clinical Formulation Before Creating Treatment Goals

One of the most valuable steps in treatment planning is developing a clinical formulation before writing goals and objectives. A clinical formulation explains why the client is experiencing difficulty, what factors are maintaining it, and why the selected interventions are appropriate. A thoughtful formulation helps ensure that treatment remains individualized rather than relying on generic “moving on” advice.

For clients navigating divorce, formulation should consider the client’s specific stressors and losses (which may include grief connected to the relationship, identity disruption, financial strain, or housing instability); the level and nature of ongoing conflict with a co-parent or former partner, if applicable; and, when children are involved, how conflict and instability specifically—rather than the divorce as an event—may be affecting them. A large-scale meta-analysis of divorced families found interparental conflict and post-divorce parenting quality to be consistently associated with child adjustment; because this evidence base is largely correlational, it should be understood as identifying a meaningful association and a plausible mechanism, not a proven causal pathway (van Dijk, van der Valk, Deković, & Branje, 2020; Amato, 2000).

“High conflict” between co-parents is not the same thing as intimate partner violence or coercive control, and formulation should distinguish between them explicitly. When there is current violence, coercive control, stalking, intimidation, or another credible safety concern, standard communication or co-parenting strategies shouldn’t be recommended by default; these dynamics call for a safety assessment and appropriate specialized referral rather than an assumption that both parties simply need to communicate better. Child-safety and client-safety considerations take precedence over improving cooperative communication.

A strong clinical formulation naturally guides treatment planning. For example, if a client’s primary distress is grief and identity disruption with low ongoing conflict, individual coping-focused work may be most relevant. If ongoing, high-conflict but not unsafe co-parenting is a central concern, particularly with children involved, treatment should directly address communication and conflict-reduction strategies. The treatment plan should clearly demonstrate how the selected interventions address the client’s specific circumstances and priorities, and should also distinguish which treatment pathway is being addressed: individual adjustment (grief, depressive or anxious symptoms, identity disruption); co-parenting (communication, boundaries, conflict reduction); parenting (strengthening parenting practices post-separation); child-focused concerns (referral or evaluation when a child shows clinically significant symptoms, rather than automatically folding the child into the adult client’s plan); trauma or safety concerns; practical stressors (housing, employment, financial strain, social isolation); or coping with legal-system stress without the psychotherapy becoming a form of legal advocacy.

Many treatment plans remain superficial because they list symptoms and interventions without explaining the clinical reasoning connecting the two. A strong formulation demonstrates why specific goals were prioritized, why certain interventions were selected, and how the client’s circumstances, strengths, and barriers influence the treatment approach.

Establish Medical Necessity Through Functional Impairment

Treatment plans should document more than the presence of divorce-related distress. They should clearly explain how this distress interferes with the client’s daily functioning and, when a diagnosable condition is present, connect the presentation to that diagnosis. Documenting clinically significant functional impairment can help support medical necessity determinations, but requirements vary by payer, jurisdiction, service type, and clinical setting, and documenting impairment alone does not automatically establish or guarantee medical necessity for every payer.

Rather than simply documenting that a client “is going through a divorce,” describe the full clinical chain: symptoms and their duration, the resulting functional impairment, the diagnosis or clinical formulation when applicable, the treatment need that follows, measurable goals, the interventions selected, and the expected clinical change. For example, rather than “client is distressed about the divorce,” stronger documentation reads: “client reports depressed mood and difficulty concentrating for 4 months following separation, with associated occupational decline; symptoms meet criteria for Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood, establishing the clinical need for weekly CBT targeting mood and functioning.”

Whenever possible, establish a measurable baseline before treatment begins. A standardized symptom measure such as the PHQ-9 or GAD-7 assesses a specific symptom domain rather than divorce adjustment itself, and should supplement rather than replace clinical assessment; if the treatment target is primarily grief, parenting stress, trauma, or relationship functioning, these measures alone may not capture what matters most, and clinicians should select measures based on the actual presenting problem. A specific numerical score shouldn’t be treated as automatically determining treatment response or discharge readiness.

Creating SMART Divorce Treatment Goals

Effective treatment goals should be individualized, collaborative, and measurable. One of the most common documentation mistakes is writing goals that are too broad to evaluate objectively. Statements such as “cope with the divorce” or “improve co-parenting” provide little guidance for future treatment sessions and make it difficult to determine whether meaningful progress has occurred.

Instead, treatment goals should follow SMART principles whenever clinically appropriate. Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Objectives should identify observable behaviors or changes that demonstrate movement toward the larger treatment goal.

Breaking larger goals into smaller objectives also allows clinicians to recognize incremental progress throughout treatment. These measurable objectives become valuable reference points during treatment plan reviews and progress note documentation.

Divorce Treatment Goal Examples

The following treatment goal examples are designed to help mental health professionals develop individualized treatment plans based on each client’s presenting concern, circumstances, functional impairment, strengths, and treatment needs. Effective treatment goals should be collaborative, measurable, and connected to specific objectives and interventions that support meaningful clinical progress.

Goal 1: Process Grief and Rebuild Identity

Long-Term Goal: Client will demonstrate reduced depressive and grief-related symptoms and increased sense of individual identity and stability.

Possible Objectives:

• Attend scheduled therapy sessions consistently.
• Identify and process at least one specific loss connected to the end of the relationship weekly, reviewed in session.
• Identify at least two personal values or interests to reconnect with independent of the former relationship.
• Report a reduction in depressive symptoms, tracked via standardized measure.

Possible Interventions:

• Individual psychotherapy addressing grief, loss, and identity disruption.
• CBT-based strategies targeting depressive symptoms.
• Values clarification and behavioral activation.
• Routine progress monitoring using standardized measures.

Goal 2: Reduce Co-Parenting Conflict and Improve Communication

Long-Term Goal: Client will demonstrate reduced interparental conflict and consistent use of effective co-parenting communication strategies.

Possible Objectives:

• Identify and describe the specific pattern of conflict with the co-parent, reviewed in session.
• Practice a defined, business-like communication protocol for co-parenting exchanges, tracked via self-report.
• Identify and reduce at least one specific behavior that exposes children to conflict, when children are involved.
• Report a reduction in the frequency or intensity of co-parenting conflict, tracked over time.

Possible Interventions:

• Co-parenting communication skills training.
• Structured, evidence-based parenting programs (such as the New Beginnings Program) when children are involved (Wolchik, Sandler, Millsap, Plummer, Greene, Anderson, Dawson-McClure, Hipke, & Haine, 2002).
• Conflict de-escalation strategies specific to co-parenting interactions.
• Referral to co-parenting counseling or family court services when clinically appropriate.

Goal 3: Rebuild Functioning and Support System

Long-Term Goal: Client will demonstrate increased functioning and engagement with a rebuilt support system following the divorce.

Possible Objectives:

• Identify and engage in at least one new or renewed social connection weekly.
• Develop and follow a plan for managing practical stressors (financial, housing) connected to the divorce.
• Report improved functioning at work or in daily responsibilities, tracked over time.
• Identify a plan for managing future stressors connected to co-parenting or the divorce process.

Possible Interventions:

• Behavioral activation targeting social reconnection and valued activities.
• Problem-solving therapy addressing practical stressors.
• Referral to relevant community or legal resources as appropriate.
• Relapse-prevention planning and termination processing.

Remember that these examples are intended as starting points rather than standardized treatment plans. Effective treatment planning requires ongoing collaboration with the client and should reflect their specific circumstances, strengths, cultural considerations, and treatment preferences. Objectives, interventions, and review dates should be modified as the client’s circumstances, such as legal proceedings, evolve.

What to Include in a Divorce Treatment Plan

A comprehensive divorce treatment plan should do more than identify distress and list interventions. Effective treatment planning creates a clinical roadmap that connects the client’s presenting concern, functional impairment, strengths, treatment goals, measurable objectives, and selected interventions.

While treatment plan requirements vary depending on clinical setting, payer expectations, state regulations, and organizational policies, many evidence-informed treatment plans include several core elements that support clinical decision-making, continuity of care, and ongoing measurement of treatment progress.

A comprehensive divorce treatment plan template typically includes the following clinical documentation sections:

The following sections provide a detailed overview of each component and explain how clinicians can use these elements to create treatment plans that are clinically meaningful, individualized, and responsive to client needs.

1. Client and Plan Information

The first section establishes essential identifying and administrative information while creating a clear record of the treatment episode. Clinicians typically document client information, treatment plan dates, review dates, plan type, clinician information, practice details, session format, session frequency, and the anticipated duration of treatment.

Documenting this information helps establish when treatment began, who is responsible for care, how frequently services are provided, and when the plan should be reviewed. A treatment plan should be considered a living clinical document that changes as the client’s legal circumstances and co-parenting arrangements evolve over time.

2. Coordinating Providers and Services

Clients navigating divorce may be connected to other providers or systems, including legal counsel, family court services, or a co-parenting counselor if conjoint work is occurring separately. This section documents other providers and agencies involved in the client’s care, relevant releases of information (ROIs), and plans for coordination when clinically appropriate.

Effective care coordination is particularly relevant when legal proceedings are active, since documentation practices and communication with other providers may need to account for this context.

3. Diagnostic Summary

The diagnostic summary documents any underlying diagnosis, applicable ICD-10-CM code, diagnostic considerations, and clinical evidence supporting the diagnosis, consistent with DSM-5-TR criteria where applicable (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). Divorce or separation is a psychosocial stressor, not a mental disorder, and clinicians shouldn’t treat Adjustment Disorder as a default diagnosis simply because distress follows a divorce. When symptoms emerge within three months of the identifiable stressor, clinicians should still evaluate the full DSM-5-TR criteria and consider whether another disorder (major depressive disorder, an anxiety disorder, or another condition) better accounts for the presentation before assigning Adjustment Disorder, and should distinguish normal, time-limited reactive distress from a disorder that actually requires treatment.

A strong diagnostic summary extends beyond simply listing a diagnosis when one is present. It should clearly connect any diagnostic conclusion with observable clinical evidence, and should describe the specific symptoms, duration, severity, and functional impact supporting the treatment focus, regardless of whether a formal diagnosis applies.

4. Clinical Formulation and Treatment Rationale

Clinical formulation is one of the most important components of a comprehensive treatment plan because it explains the clinician’s understanding of why the client is experiencing difficulty and why specific treatment approaches were selected. Rather than documenting isolated symptoms, clinicians should synthesize the client’s specific stressors, conflict level, and, when applicable, concerns about children’s adjustment.

This section should also identify the client’s existing strengths and resources—insight, motivation for treatment, supportive relationships, and effective coping strategies already in use—alongside realistic barriers that may interfere with treatment participation or progress, such as ongoing high-conflict legal proceedings or limited support system. A strong formulation demonstrates why specific goals were prioritized and how the client’s circumstances, strengths, and barriers influence the treatment approach.

5. Medication and Concurrent Treatment

When clients receive psychiatric medication for a co-occurring condition, treatment plans should document medication names, dosages, prescribing providers, treatment response, adherence concerns, and recent changes. Medication does not directly treat divorce-related adjustment itself; when used, it is directed at an underlying diagnosable condition, such as depression or an anxiety disorder, in coordination with the prescribing provider.

This section may also include other concurrent treatments such as co-parenting counseling, group therapy, or legal support services. Documenting concurrent services provides a more complete picture of the client’s treatment landscape and supports coordinated clinical decision-making.

6. Presenting Problems and Functional Impact

The presenting problems section describes the client’s primary concerns and explains how divorce-related stressors interfere with daily functioning. Effective documentation goes beyond stating that a client “is going through a divorce” by describing how specific stressors interfere with important areas of life.

Clinicians may document impairment related to mood, work functioning, co-parenting, and, when applicable, children’s adjustment. Whenever possible, documentation should include observable examples of impairment. For example, noting a specific pattern of co-parenting conflict, or documented occupational decline connected to depressive symptoms, provides stronger clinical evidence than documenting general distress alone.

7. Treatment Goals and Objectives

Treatment goals identify the primary clinical outcomes the client and clinician are working toward throughout treatment. Effective divorce treatment goals should be individualized, clinically meaningful, and connected to the client’s specific stressors and priorities.

Each goal should include its own baseline severity and current functioning—the client’s starting point on relevant symptom measures and functional indicators—since establishing this reference allows clinicians to evaluate whether interventions are producing meaningful improvement over time. Short-term objectives then break the larger goal into measurable steps, describing observable changes in mood, communication, or functioning. Each goal should also document the specific interventions being used to pursue it and the clinical rationale connecting those interventions to the client’s presentation and formulation, along with how progress toward that goal will be tracked over time.

8. Treatment Modality and Interventions

This section documents the primary treatment modality being used and explains how it supports the client’s treatment goals. Individual psychotherapy addressing grief, identity disruption, and depressive or anxious symptoms is commonly used for adjustment to divorce. When co-parenting conflict is a central concern and there are no safety contraindications, communication skills training and structured conflict-reduction strategies are relevant. When children are part of the presenting concern, structured parenting programs are one evidence-based option: the New Beginnings Program specifically has documented 6-year follow-up benefits for the adolescent children of participating mothers, including reduced substance use, and a subsequent 15-year follow-up has also been reported in the literature (Wolchik, Sandler, Millsap, Plummer, Greene, Anderson, Dawson-McClure, Hipke, & Haine, 2002). This is a specific, studied program, distinct from co-parenting counseling generally, and evidence for it shouldn’t be read as establishing efficacy for every co-parenting intervention. Structured parenting programs may not be appropriate in every family context, particularly when there are significant safety concerns, coercive control, or other circumstances requiring specialized assessment first.

This section should also document between-session assignments designed to extend therapeutic work beyond scheduled appointments, such as practicing a communication protocol or completing a thought record.

9. Risk Assessment and Safety Planning Summary

Although a treatment plan does not replace a comprehensive risk assessment or standalone safety plan, documenting relevant safety considerations is an important component of comprehensive clinical documentation, particularly given that divorce can involve significant stress and, in some cases, interpersonal conflict with safety implications.

This section may include current and historical suicidal ideation, self-harm concerns, any safety concerns connected to interactions with a former partner, protective factors, overall risk level, and whether a safety plan has been completed when clinically indicated. Risk should be individualized and reassessed whenever clinically appropriate, including following significant legal or custody-related developments.

10. Family, Support, and Collateral Involvement

Support systems can play an important role in divorce-related treatment when involvement aligns with the client’s preferences and clinical needs. Treatment plans may document family involvement, collateral contacts, cultural considerations, and community resources. Individual therapy for one parent, co-parenting counseling, and family or child therapy are distinct services with different roles, informed consent requirements, and confidentiality expectations; the clinician should be clear about which service is actually being provided rather than blending them informally.

When information about a child, co-parent, attorney, school, or other third party is included in documentation, identify the source of that information (client report, collateral contact, direct observation, or standardized assessment) and avoid presenting an unverified report as an independently established fact — for example, “client reports the children witnessed several exchanges” rather than treating that report as confirmed. Divorce-related clinical documentation can become part of litigation, so clinicians should avoid becoming an advocate for one parent in treatment documentation unless their role explicitly requires it, avoid custody recommendations outside their role, training, or court-authorized scope, avoid speculative statements about what is “best for the children” based on one party’s report, and follow applicable laws, informed-consent requirements, and organizational policies regarding records and releases.

When co-parenting is a focus of treatment, involvement of the co-parent (through separate or conjoint services) should be guided by informed consent, confidentiality requirements, and clinical appropriateness, and the clinician should clarify whether individual, co-parenting, or child-focused services (or a combination) are being provided.

11. Transition and Discharge Planning

Transition planning helps clinicians and clients identify what successful treatment progress may look like and establish criteria for moving toward discharge or a lower level of care. Discharge criteria should be individualized and may include clinically meaningful improvement, restored functioning, demonstrated ability to use coping or communication strategies independently, achievement of agreed treatment objectives, or transition to another service when appropriate — not the complete absence of grief, stress, or co-parenting difficulty, some of which (such as ongoing co-parenting logistics) may reasonably persist long-term.

Clinicians should consider referral or an expanded level of care when there are persistent or worsening depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation or another safety concern, suspected intimate partner violence or coercive control, clinically significant symptoms in a child, substance misuse, trauma symptoms, severe functional deterioration, escalating legal or custody-related stress beyond what supportive therapy can address, a need for psychiatric evaluation, or a need for specialized family or parenting services.

Aftercare planning may include referrals to additional providers, co-parenting counseling, or follow-up care based on the client’s ongoing needs.

12. Plan Review and Signatures

The final section documents treatment plan review, client participation, signatures, and required approvals. Including client participation reinforces that treatment planning is a collaborative process developed between the client and clinician.

Documenting signatures, review dates, updates, and progress summaries provides a clear record that the treatment plan has been discussed, evaluated, and modified as clinically appropriate throughout treatment.

Divorce Treatment Plan Example

The following example demonstrates how the clinical sections of a divorce treatment plan connect together for a client navigating individual adjustment and co-parenting conflict. This example is a fictional, educational illustration rather than a universal treatment protocol, and should be adapted based on the individual client’s presentation, treatment preferences, clinical judgment, practice setting, and applicable documentation requirements. Numerical targets and timeframes in this example are illustrative, not evidence-based thresholds or required outcomes.

Divorce Treatment Plan Template

The images below provide a preview of TherapyByPro’s Counseling Treatment Plan template, designed for mental health professionals who need a structured framework for documenting divorce-related treatment goals, measurable objectives, clinical formulation, interventions, risk considerations, and treatment progress.

The template follows a comprehensive clinical structure that can be adapted for individual adjustment, co-parenting-focused work, or child-focused concerns connected to divorce. It includes sections for client and plan information, care coordination, diagnostic summary, clinical formulation, medication and concurrent treatment, presenting problems and functional impairment, treatment goals, objectives, interventions, treatment modality, risk assessment, family and support involvement, discharge planning, and plan review documentation.

Organized across 15 dedicated pages, the editable Word document and fillable PDF allow clinicians to customize documentation based on their practice setting, clinical approach, and documentation requirements while maintaining a consistent treatment planning workflow.

Clinicians seeking a complete treatment planning solution can access TherapyByPro’s Counseling Treatment Plan template. For clinicians who need a streamlined tool focused specifically on documenting treatment goals, objectives, and interventions, the Treatment Plan Goals template provides a simplified format for tracking progress across multiple treatment goals.

Common Documentation Mistakes When Writing a Treatment Plan for Divorce

Even experienced clinicians can develop documentation habits that reduce the clinical usefulness of a divorce treatment plan. A strong treatment plan should do more than identify that a client “is going through a divorce”—it should explain the specific stressors, functional impairment, treatment goals, selected interventions, and measurable indicators of progress.

The following examples highlight common divorce treatment planning mistakes, why they create documentation challenges, and how clinicians can strengthen their documentation approach.

Clinical Note: One of the most common documentation challenges in divorce treatment planning is treating the divorce itself, rather than the specific stressors and conflict patterns maintaining distress, as the clinical target. A strong divorce treatment plan connects the client’s specific circumstances, functional impairment, treatment goals, interventions, and measurable outcomes into a cohesive clinical roadmap.

Conclusion: Creating Effective Divorce Treatment Plans That Support Meaningful Clinical Progress

An effective divorce treatment plan is more than a documentation requirement. It connects the client’s specific stressors, conflict patterns, and functional impairment with evidence-informed interventions designed to support individual adjustment and, when applicable, protect children from the effects of ongoing conflict.

Interparental conflict is consistently associated with poorer child outcomes across a large body of research (van Dijk, van der Valk, Deković, & Branje, 2020; Amato, 2000), and structured parenting programs have documented long-term follow-up benefits when children are part of the presenting concern and the family context is a good fit for that approach (Wolchik, Sandler, Millsap, Plummer, Greene, Anderson, Dawson-McClure, Hipke, & Haine, 2002). Treatment plans are living documents and should be reviewed and updated as the client’s legal circumstances and co-parenting relationship evolve.

References

• Amato, P. R. (2000). The consequences of divorce for adults and children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 62(4), 1269–1287. Resource
• American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed., text revision; DSM-5-TR). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Resource
• van Dijk, R., van der Valk, I. E., Deković, M., & Branje, S. (2020). A meta-analysis on interparental conflict, parenting, and child adjustment in divorced families: Examining mediation using meta-analytic structural equation models. Clinical Psychology Review, 79, 101861. Resource
• Wolchik, S. A., Sandler, I. N., Millsap, R. E., Plummer, B. A., Greene, S. M., Anderson, E. R., Dawson-McClure, S. R., Hipke, K., & Haine, R. A. (2002). Six-year follow-up of preventive interventions for children of divorce: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA, 288(15), 1874–1881. Resource