The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health)

Develop a Parent Coordination program and minimize high stress for children of divorce!

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

In addition to numerous tables and charts, The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques provides methods of parental communication, time-sharing plans, and additional reading sources. More importantly, the appendix provides reproducible forms for your own parent coordination practice, including:

• 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