This training program for parenting coordinators, mediators, custody evaluators, lawyers, judges, therapists, parent educators, and others who work with high conflict families.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify the characteristics of PC clients that make them challenging
- Set up the case for success: from referrals to service agreements and appointment order to intake
- Use communication channels and the parenting plan/custody order to manage conflict between co-parents
- Set and enforce rules, including court orders and PC procedures
- Discuss PC functions in a conscious manner: case management, education, settlement, and decision-making
- Gain competence in management strategies for when the PC process gets derailed
- Analyze PC practice risk and strategies to manage and minimize professional risk
Describe how PC clients’ involvement in legal adversarial court processes necessitates re-training in functional co-parenting