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

Boyan, Susan M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078902215X ISBN 13: 9780789022158

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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

About this title

Synopsis:

A step-by-step roadmap offering a practical model for psychotherapists working as parent coordinators in collaboration with the courts during court proceedings. It contains special features such as tables, figures, descriptive plans and forms that can be copied for case use.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 078902215X
• ISBN 13: 9780789022158
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 398