[The Linz model: separation--divorce--new beginning].

The Linz-Project is a secondary-preventive and therapeutic model for coping with divorce. It contains a children's group (for children with age 8-12) and parallelly a parent group. The authors describe context, theoretical and practical fundamentals, aims, methods, basic structure and process of this specific group model. Their article outlines similarities and differences to other group models for coping with divorce and resumes the experiences with the Linz-Project.