A comprehensive guide to divorce counseling for therapists and all helping professionals, Divorce Doesn't Have to Be That Way is packed with intervention procedures for all key elements of the divorce counseling process, from decision to legal issues. Written specifically for helping professionals who want to give healthy support to their clients: the emphasis is on a family-centered, non-adversarial approach. Among the key topics: working with "problem" personalities, domestic abuse, custody, alternatives to litigation. Therapists will find the "critical entry points" and the guide to avoiding common "helper traps" uniquely valuable.

Dr. Appell's guidelines for professionals who work with high-conflict divorces are featured in the Fall 2007 "Family Forensic Corner" column in The Family Psychologist (APA Division 43). 

Softcover, 288 pages, 2006, $27.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-886230-71-2