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Parenting Coordination:
A Practical Guide for Family Law Professionals
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Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Cost: $50.00
The book is also available at all major online bookseller outlets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Description
Parenting Coordination is a child-centered process for conflicted, divorced, and divorcing parents. The Parenting Coordinator (PC) makes decisions to help high-conflict parents who cannot agree to parenting decisions on their own. This professional text serves as a training manual for use in all states and provinces which utilize Parenting Coordination, addressing the intervention process and the science that supports it.
The text offers up-to-date research, a practical guide for training, service provision, and references to relevant research for quality parenting coordination practice. Specifically, this book describes the integrated model of Parenting Coordination, including the Parent Coordinator’s professional role, responsibilities, protocol for service, and ethical guidelines.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Parenting Coordination: The Integrated Model
Chapter Two: Parenting Coordination Procedures
Chapter Three: Getting Started
Chapter Four: Developing an Intervention Strategy
Chapter Five: Conflict Analysis, Transformation, and Containment
Chapter Six: Strategies to Disengage from Conflict
Chapter Seven: Strategies to Build Consensus
Chapter Eight: Parenting Plans: Using Research as a Guide
Chapter Nine: Intervention Strategies for Families with Special Challenges
Chapter Ten: Managing the Parenting Coordination Process
Appendices
Parenting Coordination: A Guide for Parents
Forward
A Parenting Coordinator often becomes involved when parents have been unable to successfully implement their parenting plan or previously agreed upon time-sharing and custody arrangement. Parents may recognize their need for help or they may be referred to Parenting Coordination by their attorneys, the court, mental health professionals, mediators, or others who are familiar with Parenting Coordination.
Parenting Coordination, an alternative dispute resolution process, is designed to help families whose pattern of interaction is characterized by chronic hostility and conflict. Parenting Coordination is a process designed to help parents who are separated, divorced, or never married learn how to resolve their parenting disputes outside of court and reduce the excessive cost of litigation.
This book is a companion to Parenting Coordination: A Practical Guide for Family Law Professionals and is written specifically for parents and families who are experiencing conflict in their co-parent relationship. This guide will help parents know what to expect from the Parenting Coordination process and how to make the best use of this service to reduce the harmful effects of conflict which jeopardizes the well being of children. When parents are able to effectively communicate about their children and create a sense of stability and security, children benefit and the family unit as a whole functions more effectively.
