Parent Coordination includes functioning in an ongoing role of guardian, mediator, educator and case manager.
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Goals include:
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Educating co-parents in effective communication skills and anger management.
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Shielding the children from parental conflict, loyalty binds, and unnecessary stress.
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Monitoring parental behaviors and parental access and reporting to the attorneys only as necessary.
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Ensuring the execution of the court order or settlement agreement.
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Mediating unresolved parenting issues.
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Creating a specific Parenting Plan.
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Collaborating with all professionals involved with the family.
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Determining additional services such as counseling, random drug screens, parenting classes.
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Incorporating follow-up sessions at 3, 6, and 12 months and to be available in the interim.
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For the sake of the children divorcing parents must continue to communicate with their former spouses in matters of child-rearing. Yet, approximately 20-30% of divorcing parents exhibit high conflict behaviors, creating stress for both adult and child. Research indicates that unrelenting parental conflict is the single most common cause of poor adjustment in children following a divorce.
Parent Coordination offers divorcing parents a unique service that may be used during the divorce process or years after. Parents with serious concerns regarding their co-parent may request through their attorney, the monitoring services of a Parent Coordinator. Similar to a guardian, a Coordinator is a neutral working to ensure parental access and protect children from unnecessary stress.
Parent Coordinators are licensed psychotherapists who are especially trained in child development, mediation and high conflict.
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