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Clinical & Ethical Best Practices for High-Conflict Families: Child-First Strategies for Divorce, Custody, Coparenting, and Court


Average Rating:
   3
Speaker:
Bradley Craig, LMSW-IPR, CFLE
Duration:
5 Hours 37 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jan 21, 2016
Product Code:
POS020015
Media Type:
Digital Recording
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Professionals in the mental health field commonly work with children and families in crisis. With over half of all marriages in the United States ending in divorce, mental health professionals frequently find themselves involved in these complex family structures. Well-meaning professionals can be negatively impacted by this involvement if they are unaware of the specialized issues that come with the dynamics of these families and the potential court interaction. Worse yet, this involvement can not only have long-term damaging effects on your professional credibility, but on these children and their families as well.

Presented by Bradley S. Craig, LMSW-IPR, CFLE, author of Between Two Homes: A Coparenting Handbook, this recording offers you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the higher standard of practice involved in working with these families while learning about current research and knowledge regarding two-home issues. This recording will also discuss resources and parenting coordination tools available to these families.

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BRADLEY CRAIG, LMSW-IPR, CFLE, is a social worker, family life educator, and family law mediator in the North Texas area who has specialized in helping families work through divorce, custody, and coparenting issues for over 20 years. He is the author of Between Two Homes: A Coparenting Handbook, as well as numerous educational programs, videos, and curriculums designed to educate the public about the effects of parental conflict on children and the services available to help families through coparenting issues. Mr. Craig has conducted numerous trainings regarding clinical and forensic work with high-conflict families, covering topics such as family law mediation, parenting facilitation, coparent education, and child-first interventions, and he frequently speaks for state and national conferences and serves as an expert to the media.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Bradley Craig maintains a private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Bradley Craig has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.


Objectives

  1. Outline the current professional and legal standards of practice between therapeutic and forensic services
  2. Describe how interventions can be adapted effectively for families in transition to maximize client outcomes
  3. Identify ethical considerations that arise when clients are involved with the family court system
  4. Illustrate circumstances where professional experience can be misapplied to families involved in the court system and identify ways to prevent this from happening
  5. Evaluate resources available to families that reduce chronic re-litigation and improve outcomes
  6. Define auxiliary professional roles with court connected cases including parenting coordination

Outline

Behind Closed Doors – An Inside Look at High-Conflict Family Dynamics

  • What is coparenting?
  • Recognizing where the family is
  • The family in transition
  • Vulnerability of the family
  • Consequences for adults
  • Children’s adjustment
  • Best interest?
  • Parentification
  • Relocation
  • The legal system
  • Empowerment
  • Terminology
  • Resources and options for families
  • Conflict addiction

Ethical Considerations for Clinical & Forensic Roles

  • Dynamics of court involvement
  • Guidelines for practice
  • Therapeutic vs. forensic
  • Defining roles
  • Maintain your role
  • Avoiding dual roles or multiple hat issues
  • Treating with bias

Managing Risk From Day One

  • Know your family code and licensing authority
  • Why have a copy of orders?
  • What to look for in orders
  • Consent issues
  • Forms and accessibility
  • Intake
  • Defining your client
  • Goals
  • If you are the child’s therapist…
  • Reports
  • This happened vs. client reports
  • Who can you report on?
  • But I’ve been ordered to…

Child-First Strategies for High-Conflict Families

  • A parenting coordination model 
  • High-conflict behavioral patterns
  • Labels: cooperative, high-conflict, and domestic violence
  • Benefits and problems related to labels
  • Things to recognize and tools to use
  • Common parenting mistakes
  • Cognitive work
  • Boundary recognition
  • The blame game
  • Sympathy vs. empathy
  • Cooperative vs. parallel vs. conflicted coparenting
  • Alienation
  • Estrangement
  • Differentiating domestic violence  

Target Audience

  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
  • Case Managers

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Total Reviews: 3

Comments

Inger S

"I found Mr. Craig to be the most interesting, well-spoken and effective speaker of all the online courses/certifications/etc. I have taken via PESI over the past 3 years. What a treat to watch and listen to a speaker who did not get sidetracked, lost in his notes, or unable to coordinate the visual presentation. "

Kim D

"I really enjoyed this program, i would like to see recommendations for further study on this topic mentioned in this program."

Kelly R

"Great great information!!!! Helpful in all sorts of fields. "

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