This book offers a practical model for psychotherapists working as parent coordinators in collaboration with the Courts. The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques provides professionals with an understanding of high-conflict divorce and its impact on children and families. This comprehensive guide lays out a step by step roadmap with tools and directives to help therapists develop and market a parent coordination practice.
In The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques, you’ll learn to diffuse parental conflict while teaching parents to remain child-focused. You’ll also find techniques and strategies for dealing with various behaviors commonly exhibited by conflicted parents. This book examines additional factors such as unresolved anger, over-involved step-parents, and the impact of alcohol, abuse, and personality disorders while showing how to maintain control in a variety of situations.
The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques gives you vital information and
recommendations on:
- the child’s developmental, physical, and emotional needs
- time-sharing arrangements and parenting plans
- how to understand and work effectively with the legal system
- how to manage and minimize parental alienation
- how to teach communication and conflict resolution skills
- how to work with emotionally impared parents
- and much more
- standards of practice for parent coordination
- sample stipulation appointing a parent coordinator
- sample contracts
- a checklist for structuring parent coordination sessions
- a checklist for parenting plans