Trainings
NCPC provides professional training for mental health and legal professionals in the following areas:
· Parenting Coordination Basics (12, 24, 28, or 40 hr. formats)
· Advanced Parenting Coordination Techniques (4 ,8, or 16 hr. formats)
· Empirically Based Parenting Plan Evaluations
In addition to our scheduled curriculum, Dr. Carter and faculty also provide customized training programs to meet your State or jurisdictional requirements and continuing education credits are provided for all NCPC trainings.
Parenting Coordination Core Curriculum
Training Program-
Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, LMFT, LMHC, and Legal Professionals
Learning Level: Varied (3 Day)
CE Credits:24 Contact Hours; 28 General CLER Credits including 3.0 Ethics, .50 Substance Abuse and .50 Mental Illness Awareness; 8.0 hours including 4.0 hours of Domestic Violence for Family and Dependency Mediators.
Parenting Coordination is a newly emerging area of practice for professionals. A parenting coordinator typically helps high conflict parenting partners to implement their parenting plan by facilitating the resolution of disputes between parents and/or legal guardians, providing education, making recommendations to the parties, and making decisions within the scope of the court order of appointment. In some cases, parenting coordinators may also be asked by parenting partners to help them develop a parenting plan.
Parenting Coordination Defined
This seminar is a core curriculum training and presents a comprehensive overview of the definition, role, responsibilities and function of the Parenting Coordinator in jurisdictions across North America. Parenting Coordination is an out-of-court intervention for high conflict parents who choose an alternative dispute resolution process to assist them in managing parenting disputes and minimizing litigation. The integrated model of Parenting Coordination is an ongoing family resource where parenting concepts are described. Factors leading to entrenched child disputes, the pathways and personalities that lead to enduring conflict, and specialized interventions focused on high parent conflict are also included. This seminar is 3 days and focuses on practice issues such as types of orders needed, ethics, how to begin and effectively manage these difficult cases as well as professional liability issues.
Learner Objectives:
- To discuss the integrated parenting coordination practice.
- To describe the conflict resolution techniques to use with high conflict parents
- To identify judicial system procedures in domestic relation cases
- To explain the guidelines and ethical standards for parenting coordinators
This twenty-eight hour course meets the training standards established in the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts Guidelines for Parenting Coordination Comprehensive Training. It also meets the requirements of many other state and provinces’ regulations. Many areas have also established circuit-specific requirements for serving as a Parenting Coordinator. **Check your local area to determine if any additional training is required.**
**FLORIDA NOTE: On October 1, 2009, a new parenting coordination statute (F.S. 61.125) took effect which provides for referral of divorcing couples to a parenting coordinator and includes standards for qualifying as a parenting coordinator. This twenty-eight hour course meets the parenting coordination training requirement established by Florida Statute 61.125(4)(a)(2)(c). As there are other requirements for qualification as a parenting coordinator, interested individuals are encouraged to review F.S. 61.125(4) to determine their eligibility for qualifying as a parenting coordinator. Click here to review F.S 61.125.
Cost:
$425 Early Registration Fee
$495 Registration Fee
$550 Pay at Door
$35 Extra Hard Copy Manual
Advanced Concepts in Parenting Coordination (2 Day)
Learner Level: Advanced
CE Credits: 14.75 Contact Hours; 18 General CLER Credits including 1.0 Mental Illness Awareness; 7.8 hours for Family and Dependency Mediators.
This comprehensive seminar focuses on providing relevant research, intervention and planning options in the areas of Alienation and Estrangement; Parenting Styles and Pathology; Managing Intractable Conflicts; and Advanced Parenting Coordination Strategies.
Cost:
$310 Early Registration Fee
$330 Registration Fee
$350 Pay at Door
$35 Manual
Supplemental Training for Parenting Coordinators (full day)
Learning Level: Varied
This workshop is designed to supplement the 20 hour Basic Parenting Coordination Training course which was offered prior to August 2009. Effective October 1, 2009, Florida Statute (F.S. 61.125) requires all parenting coordinators to have 28 hours of parenting coordination training, which must include four hours of domestic violence. This workshop will educate participants about changes to the practice of Parenting Coordination as a result of the new PC Statute, Rule, and approved forms. Workshop participants will also receive four hours of domestic violence training as it relates to the practice of Parenting Coordination. In addition, a review of the social science literature as it relates to children and families impacted by separation and divorce will be presented. Participants will learn how to utilize social science research as a parenting education intervention within the Parenting Coordination process.
Cost:
$175 Early Registration Fee
$225 Pay at Door
Development of Appropriate Parenting Plans: Empirically-Based Factors (3 hr)
Learning Level: Varied
CE Credits: 2.58 contact hours; This course has been submitted for continuing legal education credits by the Florida Bar; 0.6 hour Domestic Violence for all mediator types.
This presentation discusses child development and divorce adjustment research, including disruption research, exposure to high-conflict parenting, and factors that are relevant to developing child-focused parenting plans.
Cost:
Regular $95
Alienation & Estrangement: Formulations & Interventions in the Legal and Clinical Community (3 hr)
Learning Level: Intermediate
CE Credits: 2.58 Contact Hours; This course has been submitted for continuing legal education credits by the Florida Bar; 2.4 hours for Family and Dependency Mediators.
This presentation focuses on families in which children resist or refuse to visit a parent after separation or prolonged interruptions in contact between parent and child. Alienated children are differentiated from estranged children who refuse to visit, and other developmental reasons for resistance to visiting are explored through discussion and case examples. The newest research on effective interventions for parents and these vulnerable children as well as the interdisciplinary case management involved is discussed. Relevant research is also presented.
Cost:
Regular $95
Date and Location to be determined.
Divorce, Children’s Adjustment, and Parenting Style: Implications
for Practice (3 hr)
Learning Level: Varied
CE Credits: 2.58 Contact Hours; This course has been submitted for continuing legal education credits by the Florida Bar; 3.3 hours for Family and Dependency Mediators.
This workshop incorporates empirical research on factors associated with risk in children following divorce, including parent conflict, quality and type of parenting, loss of relationships, multiple transitions, protective factors associated with better outcomes in children, and implications for working with parents and children. This 3 hour seminar includes a brief summary of various interventions, including divorce education programs, family law mediation, and special interventions for managing high conflict parents, such as Parenting Coordination, with research findings on the effectiveness of such interventions.
Cost:
Regular $95
Disruptions of Attachments: Impact on Parenting & Child Development (3 hr)
Learning Level: Intermediate
CE Credits: 2.58 Contact Hours; This course has been submitted for continuing legal education credits by the Florida Bar; 1.0 hour for Family and Dependency Mediators.
This seminar focuses on empirical research on attachment throughout the lifespan and how disruptions impact stability in intimate partnerships and parenting. This workshop is a didactic and experiential training model. Clinical and empirical definitions of attachment across the lifespan will be presented along with implications for treating and evaluating individuals who may be impacted by disruptions of developmental and relational attachments. In addition, an overview of the impact of the family law system on children and families will be reviewed along with implications for clinical practice and forensic services to the court.
Cost:
Regular $95
Mental Health Essentials for Family Law Professionals (full day)
Learning Level: Introductory
CE Credits: 7.5 Contact Hours, 9.0 General CLER Credits including 1.0 Ethics and 1.0 Mental Illness Awareness; 8.5 hours for Family and Dependency Mediators
Family law has become a diverse and increasingly complex field that is equal parts law and psychology. The purpose of this workshop is to provide professionals with current, practical, and empirically based information to guide their work in family law cases. Professionals who do not have a background or training in essential mental health knowledge or skills will learn about:
- child development
- importance of attachment
- family systems theory and interventions
- cognitive behavioral theory and interventions
- impact of divorce on children and parents
- parenting styles, and
- personality disorders
This workshop builds upon an academic foundation for those with a mental health background and provides an update on the latest empirical research on factors associated with risk in children following divorce, including parent conflict, quality and type of parenting, loss of relationships, multiple transitions, protective factors associated with better outcomes in children, and implications for working with parents and children.
Cost:
$160 Early Registration (before 6/30/10)
$175 Regular
$220 Pay at Door
$25 Manual
Forensic Consultation for Mental Health Professionals (3 hr)
Learning Level: Introductory
This workshop presents a model of consultation for mental health providers to assist legal professionals and their clients in preparing for litigation, mediation, parenting plan development, and child focused intervention.
Customized Training
Learning Level: Varied
Private customized training is available to professional associations, groups and practices on any of the topics or combination thereof. Customary fee for a day (6- 7 presentation hours) is $3000, plus airfare and other travel expenses (airport parking, taxis, shuttles, mileage to/from airport and my office), and hotel and meal expenses associated with the seminar. The fee may be adjusted for court sponsored presentations or a brief workshop. The fee includes preparation time, the presentation, seminar materials for the host group to duplicate for attendees, as well as travel time. Click on Contact Us below for more information.
