What is Parenting Coordination
Parents rarely move from conflictual to cooperative behavior - without first going through a step of disengagement.
When a Parenting Coordinator
Half of all divorcing couples
in moderate to high conflict will still be clashing three to four years later.
Who is a Parenting Coordinator
Not an authority in just one, a parenting coordinator possesses realistic insight, experience and knowledge in several disciplines.
Who is a Parenting Coordinator
One of the primary responsibilities of the parenting coordinator is to assist the parents in realizing the dynamics and emotions in their divorced family.
Through out the divorce process, most parents have encountered the legal, therapeutic, and mediation arenas. Attorneys, Judges, therapists, and mediators, all participating in specific roles - none, however focusing an interest in how the family will realistically adjust their lives to function in a divorced world.
Not an authority in just one, the parenting coordinator possesses realistic insight, experience and knowledge of several disciplines - problem resolution, mediation techniques, communication systems, legal aspects of divorce, adult psychotherapy, child development, developmental psychology and children's issues in adjusting to divorce.
Drawing on all these areas of expertise, the parenting coordinator utilizes a unique synthesis of strategy and action - identifying characteristics that put their family at risk and assisting the parents in implementing a long term parenting plan.