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On thinking of parents as adults in divorce and separation

Through examining templates of situations between divorcing couples offered in HM Government's Next Steps package, this paper argues for thinking about divorcing parents as adult couples whose dilemmas would benefit from consideration from a psychotherapeutic perspective. Four templates are examined, and in each case an important aspect of what occurred is considered as a manifestation of the couple's shared internal psychological functioning. This reinforces the view that adult functioning is paramount for functioning well as a parent, and implies a need for joint working between child and family services, especially those specifically for adults.