Parenting Coordination Reference Manual
$54.95
Description
The Parenting Coordination Reference Manual is over 480 pages that provides you everything you need to prepare, plan and intervene as a parenting coordinator. The Manual offers information about how to be appointed as a parenting coordinator, and how to help parents disengage from the blame game and become focused on their children and their adjustment. It offers child development and time-sharing information, legal terminology, writing parenting plans and much more. In addition, important information about the impaired parent and how to avoid making matters worse with this difficult population is outlined in an easy to read format. Furthermore, this text includes a tremendous number of techniques, educational activities and structural interventions to offer tools to the professional working with angry, blaming, and challenging high-conflict parents.
Parenting Coordination Reference Manual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1. The Impact of Divorce and Separation
The Adult Perspective
Characteristics of High-Conflict Parents
The Binuclear Family
The Extended Family
Impasses of Divorce
Chapter 2. The Child’s Perspective Reactions of Children
Factors that Influence Adjustment
Post-Divorce Adjustment Styles
Risk Factors
Protective Factors
Negative Impact of Parental Conflict
Three-Styles of Coparenting
Chapter 3. The Role of Parent Coordinator
History and Growth of Parent Coordination
Appointment of the Parent Coordinator
Common Practices
Authority
Role and Responsibility
PC versus Other Helping Professionals
Chapter 4. Understanding the Legal System
Family Systems
Custodial Trends
Legal Terminology
Working with the Legal Professional
Chapter 5. The Cooperative Parenting Model
Theoretical Principals
Function and Role
Methodology
Educational Foundation
Chapter 6. Implementing Your PC Practice
5 Tips to get you started
3 Steps after your appointment
Intake and Assessments Forms
Chapter 7. Protocol for Types of Sessions
Intake Appointment
First Joint Session
Joint Sessions
Child Intake
Coaching Session
Significant Other Intake
Significant Other and Bio Parent Session
Joint sessions with S.O.
Relapse Prevention Session
Chapter 8. The impact of the Significant Other
Impact of Significant Others
Knowing the Dance “Steps”
Asset or Liability
Three Types of Significant Others
Chapter 9. Facilitating Effective Communication
Designing a Communication Protocol
The Parent-Child Communication
Teaching Communication Skills
Chapter 10. Managing Angry Parents
Anger versus Aggression
Anger versus Abuse
Anger Management Techniques
Noncompliance
Chapter 11. Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic Violence versus Intimate Partner Violence
Types of IPV
Power Imbalance
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Children
Safety Measures
Chapter 12. General Techniques and Strategies
Encouraging Cooperation/ Fostering Commitment
Facilitating Parental Responsibility for Behaviors
Maintaining a Child Focus
Increasing Parental Respect
Encouraging Exceptions
Disengaging Techniques
Chapter 13. Facilitating and Resolving Parenting Issues
Mediation Terms
Interest based negotiations
Techniques
Caucus
Impasse Strategies
Negotiation Skills
Chapter 14. Child Development and Time Sharing Options
Attachment
Developmental Tasks
Factors
Plans Based on Child’s Age
Primary Home Time Sharing Plans
Equal Time-Sharing Plans
Other Family Factors
Transitions Between Homes
Long-Distance Plans
Supervised and Therapeutic Visitation
Chapter 15. Creating Parenting Plans
Parenting Plan Terms
Creating Pre-divorce Parenting Plans
Re-visiting Post Plans
Chapter 16. The Impaired Parent
Family Systems versus Diagnosis
Personality-Disordered Parents
Additional Problematic Parents
Chapter 17. Documentation and Court Testimony
Necessity of documentation
Folders
Memos
Testimony
Variations on Success
Chapter 18. Visitation Refusal and Parental Alienation
Terms for Parental Alienation
Characteristics of Alienating Parents
Authors’ View of the Alienation Continuum
Parental Exclusionary Behaviors
Children Alienated from a Parent
Children’s Exclusionary Behaviors
Impact of Parental Alienation
Alienation and the Courts
Appendix
Guidelines for Practice of Parenting Coordination / Consent Order Appointing a Parenting Coordinator
Parenting Coordination Contract / Parenting Plan Checklist
Bibliography
Additional information
Weight | 20 oz |
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Dimensions | 8 × 10 × 2 in |