Awareness Integration: An AlternativeTherapeutic Methodology to Reducing Depression, Anxiety, While Improving Low Self- Esteem and Self-Efficacy in Separated or Divorced Individuals

Abstract

In the recent years, particularly since the mid 1950 [1], divorce has become a common practice and strategy for couples, whose marital relationship have reached a disequilibrium. At this point, couples have the option to sever the relationship, leave problems behind, and start anew; however, the process after divorce at times can be difficult, arduous, and even impossible to endure. Historically, society has cast a stigma on people, who choose divorce over making their marriage work. According to Gerstel [1], the fact remains that being married normalizes a person, while on the contrary, being divorced [2] leads to feelings of inadequacy, failure, and not measuring up to normal societal standards. Consequently, this feeling of not fitting into AbstrAct