QUALIFICATIONS OF A PARENTING COORDINATOR
Effective parenting coordinators need experience working with high-conflict families as well as training and experience in the following different disciplines:
- family systems theory
- adult psychotherapy
- developmental psychology
In addition, professionals should have parenting coordination training to include topics, such as:
- how parenting coordination differs from other forms of high conflict work
- the role and responsibilities of a parenting coordinator
- the impact of high conflict on the family
- coping styles of children
- divorce recovery
- children's adjustment issues specific to divorce
- conflict resolution
- mediation techniques
- communication theory
- developmental risks for time sharing arrangements
- faciliating effective parenting plans
- legal aspects of divorce
- legal terminology and working with attorneys
- protocol for different types of sessions
- parental alienation and visitation refusal
- strategies and techniques for working with conflicted parents.
- dealing with noncompliance and resistance
- working with the step parent or significant other
- ethical considerations and parenting coordination
- standards and protocols
- managing the personality disordered parent
- domestic violence
States with statutes govening the role of a parenting coordinator, indicate the background, training and experience required to perform this role.
In many jurisdictions parenting coordinators are also required to participate in a 40-hour mediation training.
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