Constance Ahrons

Constance Ruth Ahrons (April 16, 1937 - November 29, 2021) was an American psychotherapist. She was an early advocate of collaborative divorce.

Career

Ahrons received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1973. She took a professorship in sociology at the University of Southern California in 1984. In 1996 she was the director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Training Program at USC. She taught there until 2001.

Honors and awards

• Radcliffe Institute Fellow, 2000-2001
• Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Literary Association for the book The Good Divorce (HarperCollins, 1994), 1995

Books

• The good divorce: keeping your family together when your marriage comes apart (HarperCollins, 1994). ISBN 0060169737
• Divorced families : a multidisciplinary developmental view. with Roy H. Rodgers. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1987. ISBN 0393700305
• We're still family : what grown children have to say about their parents' divorce. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2004. ISBN 0060193050

Selected articles

• "Family ties after divorce: Long‐term implications for children." Family process 46, no. 1 (2007): 53-65.
• "The continuing coparental relationship between divorced spouses." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 51, no. 3 (1981): 415.
• "The binuclear family." Alternative lifestyles 2, no. 4 (1979): 499-515.
• with Richard B. Miller. "The effect of the postdivorce relationship on paternal involvement: A longitudinal analysis." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 63, no. 3 (1993): 441-450.
• "Divorce: A crisis of family transition and change." Family Relations (1980): 533-540.

External links

• Ahrons, Constance R. [WorldCat Identities ]