This article outlines a redecision therapy model for grief work and describes its practical application to psychotherapy for postdivorce impasses and loss. The primary focus is on strategies that help clients to let go emotionally and say “good-bye” to an exspouse or former partner. Additionally, material from redecision theory and practice is presented for resolving issues that often stand between the client and a successful goodbye. These include problematic early childhood decisions that lead to adverse postdivorce adjustment and problematic decisions made in response to the divorce itself. Although a rudimentary knowledge of transactional analytic theory and gestalt therapy two-chair work is assumed, psychotherapists of other persuasions can incorporate the strategies described here into most theoretical and methodological frameworks.

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Using Redecision Therapy to Resolve Postdivorce Impasses and Loss
Pages 130-143
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
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Using Redecision Therapy to Resolve Postdivorce Impasses and Loss
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