The experiences of professionals managing relationship conflict between separating couples

这项研究将调查家庭律师给予客户的情感支持。尤其侧重于以下研究问题：a)家庭律师是否有意识地接受情感支持是其角色的必要和核心部分，以及他们是否愿意处理情感问题？b)客户期望和寻求从律师那里获得什么情感支持，以及他们在多大程度上感觉到他们的需求得到了满足？c)客户寻求或接受的情感支持是否存在性别差异？已经确定，个人的情感准备是和解过程中的一个关键方面(Hitchings等人，2014)。家庭法律律师的客户似乎很挣扎，因为家庭法律制度希望他们孤立地处理事实问题，而不是他们所处环境的情感现实。心理学研究告诉我们，情绪在决策中起着至关重要的作用(Damasio，2006)，情绪支持有助于客户以积极的方式谈判和解决家庭纠纷(Hunt，2011)。这项研究将结合心理学和社会法律研究的知识，以一种新颖的方式看待家庭纠纷的解决和解决。

The research will investigate the emotional support family lawyers give their clients. In particular, focusing on the following research questions:a) Do family lawyers consciously accept that emotional support forms a necessary and central part of their role, and are they comfortable addressing emotional issues?b) What emotional support to clients expect and seek from their lawyers, and to what degree to they feel their needs are being met?c) Are there any gender differences in the emotional support which clients seek or accept?It has been established that an individual's emotional readiness is a key aspect in the settlementprocess (Hitchings et al, 2014). Clients of family law solicitors appear to struggle because thefamily law system expects them to deal with factual issues in isolation from the emotional reality oftheir circumstances. Psychological research tells us that emotions play a crucial role in decisionmaking (Damasio, 2006), and that emotional support helps clients to negotiate and resolve familydisputes in a positive way (Hunt, 2011). This research will combine knowledge from both psychologyand socio-legal research to look at family dispute resolution and settlement in a novel way.