Parenting Coordination Central

The Cooperative Parenting Institute

ANNOUNCES  

ADVANCED PARENTING COORDINATION TRAINING

It is important to share experiences and new knowledge as a way to support one another in a very difficult practice.  Since 1997 we have listened to professional feedback and have created an advanced training opportunity that will meet the needs of the experienced parenting coordinator/facilitator. As a result of this training, you will walk away with a deeper understanding of high-conflict cases as well as a refreshing outlook and renewed energy to work with complex cases.  

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MAY 4 & 5, 2012 

King of Prussia, PA

Dolce Valley Forge

301 West Dekalb Pike | King of Prussia, PA  19406

Trainers: Boyan and Termini 

Day One

"Learning to Paddle Upstream:  Working with High-Conflict Impasse"

Impasses associated with high-conflict divorce and separation are multifaceted and complex.   Day one, “Learning to Paddle Upstream” addresses the importance of identifying and managing parental resistance. Through lecture, case review, group activities and role play, participants will learn interventions designed to navigate the rough waters commonly demonstrated by high-conflict parents. Susan and Ann Marie will introduce a unique conceptual framework for recognizing types of parents encountered in in acrimonious separations. Their 5 Types of High Conflict Parents offers the master parenting coordinator a way to identify the type of dynamics demonstrated by each parent and then predict the best intervention to address their impasse. The degree of parental resistance is determined by multiple factors including the parent coordinator’s own style and personality.  Rather than paddling upstream, the PC will uncover the parents’ unconscious and unspoken goals, recognize the power of belief perseveration and learn to minimize the negative influence of others outside the biological team. 

Day Two

“Navigating Alienation, Allegations and Ethical Dilemmas”

During day two, participants learn to navigate the rapids associated with the impasses accompanying  Alienation & Other Allegations.  Alienation has and continues to be a source of controversy and concern for professionals in the field of divorce and family separation.  Participants will continue the dialogue and explore alienation within the context of attachment theory.  Professionals will be exposed to a broad yet comprehensive view of situations that arise that lead to children resisting contact with a parent.  Methods of identification and interventions suited to the work of a parenting coordinator will be highlighted.  Among these techniques, participants will explore alternative interventions including the use of alienation continuum, PA genograms and the use of an estrangement scale to document progress in the reunification process.

Ethics, professional biases and standards of care will also be discussed through lecture and case studies. Professionals will be asked to identify their own biases to better monitor the influence they may have over the parenting coordination process..  The master parent coordinator must identify and manage these obstacles to successfully steer parents towards calmer waters.

Advanced Training Requirements:  

• Minimum of a 2-day Parenting Coordination Training
• Experience providing Parenting Coordination Services

Advanced Training Fees:

• Early Bird Rate | $325.00 (available through April 13, 2012)
• Full Fee | $350.00

Advanced Training Continuing Education Credits:

• 12 CEUs
• NASW
• Others Pending

This training will not include the following topics offered in the 3 Day Basic Parenting Coordination Training:

• Role and responsibilities of the parenting coordinator
• How to set up and market your parenting coordination practice
• Step-by-step approach from intake to completion.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES & TRAINING OUTLINE

Day One - July 22, 2011

"Learning to Paddle Upstream:  Working with High Conflict Impasse"  

 Participants will:

• Develop a deeper understanding of the dynamics and influences that lead to intractable conflict between co-parents.
• Be introduced to a new conceptual framework for characterizing high conflict parents and interventions matching impasse issues
• Recognize how the goals of the pc may clash with underlying parental goals and how its connection to impasse.
• Identify how “belief perseverance” and other internal factors results in impasse issues.
• Expand techniques for dealing with the difficult clients, personality disorders, resistance and non compliance.
• Develop techniques for managing resistance from other professionals   

Day Two – July 23, 2011

"Alienation, Allegations and Answers to Ethical Dilemmas"

Participants will:

• Differentiate between alienation, alignment, and visitation refusal.
• Be able to identify when parental alienation is being used as a strategy for court.
• Identify the unique needs of alienation and what interventions can assist families in mild and moderate cases. 
• Identify the severe alienation case and plan for appropriate interventions.
• Review how attachment in children influences parental alienation.
• Be familiar with designing genograms for alienation case review.
• Be able to identity their own personal and professional biases.
• Understand the importance of functioning within the parameters of the court order/statute.
• Use standards of care to develop a protocol for maintaining professional practice

TRAINING OUTLINE

Day One - July 22, 2011

"Learning to Paddle Upstream: Working with High Conflict Impasse"    

I.  Impasse Issues Encountered by the Parenting Coordinator

   A:  Review of Janet Johnson’s Sources of Impasses

• Intrapsychic
• Interactional
• External-Social

  B.  Parenting Coordinator Impasse Model

       1.  Internal Influence

• PC personality
• PC support system 
• Counter-transference
• PC professional biases

       2.  Interactional Influence

• The Clashing of Parental Goals
• Identifying PC Goals Versus Unspoken Parent Goals
• Managing Misguided Goals
  •  To win
  • To payback
  • To connect
  • To control   

• The Powerful Influence of “Belief Perservence”
  • Definition
  • How it creates impasse
  • Techniques for challenging negative belief
  • Negative Beliefs as Outcome Predictor

        3.  Ecosytemic Influences

• Court
• Family Law Attorneys
• Mental Health Professionals
• Significant Others & Extended Family

II.  A New Conceptual Understanding and Interventions for the High-Conflict Parent

    A.  Categories 1-5:  High Conflict Parents

• The Immature Parent  
• The Impulsive Parent
• The Over-Anxious Parent
• The Unresolved Parent
• The Polarized Parent

    B.  Category 6:  The Seriously Impaired Parent

III.  Advanced Management Techniques and Strategies

     A.  Introducing the 5-Cs of High Conflict Management

• Containment Techniques
• Connecting Techniques
• Content versus Communication Techniques
• Challenging Beliefs
• Consequences and Limits

     B.  Other Techniques and Interventions

Day Two - July 23, 2011

"Alienation, Allegations and Answers to Ethical Dilemmas"  

 I.  The Unique Impasse of Alienation & Allegations

     A. Discriminating between parental alienation

•  Versus visitation refusal 
•  Versus estrangement 
•  Recognizing false allegations

     B.  Use of alienation genograms to predict and plan for interventions

• Interventions for mild alienation cases
• Interventions for moderate alienation cases
• Interventions for severe alienation cases

     C.  The role of the Court

     D.  Reunification Issues

• Family therapy versus Reunification Therapy
• Documenting Progress with an Estrangement Scale

II.  Other Allegations

     A.  Parental Allegations

• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Neglect
• Other allegations

    B.  Interventions and Documentation

III.  Recognizing Personal and Professional Biases

    A.    Professional & Personal Values

• Gender Biases
• Cultural Biases
• Religious Biases
• Heterosexual Biases
• Second Parent Adoption
• Time Sharing Biases

   B.  Implications for parenting plan development  

IV.  Understanding Ethical Responsibility and Standards of Care

   A.  General Responsibility

   B.  Implied Authority

   C.  Temporary Authority

   D.  Arbitration  

V.  Other Ethical Dilemmas

To Register Visit

 www.cooperativeparenting.com and go to the parenting coordination tab to download registration form.  For additional information contact susanboyan@gmail.com or call 404-315-7474 X1