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The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce

Strategies and Techniques

• By Susan Boyan, Ann Marie Termini

• Price: $34.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 402
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 7th December 2004
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-2215-8

About the Book

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

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
• Chapter 1. The Impact of Divorce
  
• Professional Reactions to Divorcing Families
  
• The Adult Perspective
  
• The Binuclear Family Perspective
  
• The Extended Family Perspective
  
• The Tribal Perspective
  
• Never-Married-Parents Perspective
  
• Chapter 2. Divorce and Parental Conflict: The Child’s Perspective
  
• Reactions of Children
  
• Factors that Influence Children’s Adjustment
  
• Coping Styles of Children of Divorce
  
• Parental Conflict
  
• The Role of Parents in Children’s Recovery
  
• Chapter 3. The Role of Parent Coordinator
  
• The Problem and the Solution
  
• History and Growth of Parent Coordination
  
• Statutory Authorization
  
• Appointment of the Parent Coordinator
  
• Referral Sources
  
• Areas of Decision-Making Authority
  
• Common Practices
  
• Parent Coordinators versus Other Helping Professionals
  
• The Cooperative Parenting Institute Model
  
• Chapter 4. Implementing a Parent Coordination Program
  
• CPI Parent Coordination Model Overview
  
• General Systems Perspective
  
• Program Components
  
• Financial Concerns and Time Commitment
  
• Theoretical Principles
  
• Methodology
  
• Educational Foundation
  
• Getting Started
  
• Marketing Your Program
  
• Appendix: Resources for Understanding Family Violence
  
• Chapter 5. The Legal System
  
• Employing a Systems Perspective
  
• Working with the Legal System
  
• Confidentiality versus Privilege
  
• Handling a Subpoena
  
• Working with Attorneys
  
• Working with a Guardian ad Litem
  
• The Legal Perspective
  
• Chapter 6. Custody and Cooperation
  
• Custody Options
  
• The Label of Custody
  
• Living Arrangements
  
• Joint Custody: What Works and What Doesn’t
  
• Is Joint Custody the Panacea?
  
• Authors’ Views on Custody
  
• Cooperation
  
• Barriers to Cooperative Coparenting
  
• Parallel Parenting
  
• Chapter 7. Time-Sharing Options
  
• Considerations
  
• Age and Developmental Stages
  
• Temperament and Attachment
  
• Other Family Factors
  
• Plans Based on Child’s Age and Level of Parental Conflict
  
• Specific Time-Sharing Plans
  
• Equal Time-Sharing Plans
  
• Long-Distance Plans
  
• Transitions Between Homes
  
• Supervised Visitation and Therapeutic Visitation
  
• Chapter 8. The Intervention Phase
  
• Initial Interview
  
• Types of Sessions
  
• Joint Sessions
  
• Extended Family Sessions and Significant Others
  
• The Stepparent Factor
  
• Timing and Pacing of Sessions
  
• Chapter 9. Facilitating Effective Communication
  
• Designing an Effective Communication System
  
• Alternative Parent Communication
  
• Parent-Child Communication
  
• Teaching Communication Skills
  
• Teaching Negotiating Skills
  
• Communication Metaphors
  
• Chapter 10. Managing Angry Parents
  
• The Angry Parent
  
• Anger versus Aggression and Domestic Violence
  
• Domestic Violence and Custody Disputes
  
• Impact of Domestic Violence on Children
  
• Anger and Emotional Abuse
  
• Safety Measures
  
• Anger-Management Techniques
  
• Chapter 11. General Techniques and Strategies
  
• Encouraging Cooperation and Fostering Commitment
  
• Mutual Goal Setting
  
• Facilitating Parental Responsibility for Behaviors
  
• Maintaining a Child Focus
  
• Equalizing Power
  
• Increasing Parental Respect
  
• Guiding the Problem-Solving Process
  
• Encouraging Exceptions and Amplifying Change
  
• The Power of Metaphors
  
• Application of Effective Storytelling

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