Divorce and Post-divorce Adjustment: Definitions, Models and Assessment of Adjustment

Current statistics reveal the increase in divorce rates both in the world and in our country. [...]it seems important to consider the divorce process in terms of adjustment. First of all, current divorce rates and effects of divorce in legal, economic, social terms and in terms of psychological and physiological health will be included. Divorce causes many changes that lead to a need for adaptation in almost all areas of an individual's life, including legal, economic, social, societal, psychological and physiological (Herman 1974, Amato 2000). Besides such simultaneous changes, the stigmatizing viewpoint of society toward divorce and divorced people puts the divorce process at a different point from other stressful life events (Pledge 1992, Bevvino and Sharkin 2003). [...]different perspectives on the assessment of adjustment will be reviewed. [...]divorce process, accompanied by intense emotions and deemed a psychologically challenging life experience, will be comprehensively addressed.