Effectiveness of a Psycho-Educational Group Intervention Program for Improving Post-Divorce Adjustment Difficulties of Women

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It indicates that of all changes through the life course, divorce appears to require the highest personal and social changes to adjust to subsequent demands of life.Studies have consistently shown that women and children who experience divorce are at an increased risk for a wide range of mental health, substance use, and social adjustment problems. Specifically, women compared to men, face additional changes and challenges after divorce. Moreover, women would suffer from personal, social, cultural, economic, emotional, and parental problems after divorce and it affects them more than men. Generally, literature in the area reported divorce has an enormous psychosocial effect on many aspects of divorced women, including lack of social support, income decline, depression a feeling of rootlessness and lack of identity, feel abandoned and rejected, difficulties in new friendships, anger and anxiety and lower levels of social involvement and less contact with friends.