ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|12 pages

The Impact of Divorce

chapter 3|26 pages

The Role of Parent Coordinator

chapter 4|18 pages

Implementing a Parent Coordination Program

chapter 5|14 pages

The Legal System

chapter 6|16 pages

Custody and Cooperation

chapter 7|42 pages

Time-Sharing Options

chapter 8|26 pages

The Intervention Phase

chapter 9|22 pages

Facilitating Effective Communication

chapter 10|36 pages

Managing Angry Parents

chapter 11|36 pages

General Techniques and Strategies

chapter 12|24 pages

The Impaired Parent

chapter 13|22 pages

Extreme Circumstances: Parental Alienation

chapter 14|18 pages

The Final Phase