Post-divorce coaching: a new intervention to facilitate divorce adjustment

Introduction: Family has been the most fundamental social institution underlying societies and human history. Divorce is one of the social issues, which often causes problems for family members and make them vulnerable. Despite all efforts, have done to date, to prevent divorce, statistics show that the divorce rate is growing day by day. Aim: The present study aims is to provide a framework for Post-divorce Coaching. The result has been categorized and presented in the three sections: 1. Definitions of coaching and Related Areas, 2. Family Coaching, 3. Post-divorce Adjustment and the coaching interventions required. Method: This is a descriptive-analytic review study. Comprehensively review the research conducted in the field of coaching. In the first phase, a total of 243 English articles and 3 registered Persian articles selected. Finally, after the final review, 84 articles chose. Results: As research in coaching is very limited, there is no record for coaching interventions to strengthen the lives of divorced people around the world. In this regard, the effectiveness of future-oriented interventions like coaching can be effective in reducing the issues caused by divorce. Therefore coaching is a useful intervention that can play a key role in Post-Divorce adjustment. Conclusion: Although divorce has consequences for the members involved, Post-Divorce Coaching intervention can promote the quality of life in divorcees and help them manage the changes imposed by divorce so, divorce adjustment will be the result of that.