Therapy with Family Members in the Throes of Divorce: Clinical Considerations

Description of Workshop:

In this Clinical/Diagnosis webinar, we will discuss various clinical considerations for your clients, including divorcing parents and their children. Have you found yourself worried about your clients in this category? Adult clients who are in the midst of (usually) contentious litigation that is eroding whatever may be left of their decent behavior with the other spouse. Or perhaps the clients you worry most about are the children of divorce, who are (frequently) caught between their parents in escalating co-parenting conflict.We will look at the helpfulness of Divorce Groups for Kids and how several clinicians might structure these groups with your combined kid clients, and perhaps also manage to form a Co-Parenting Group for some of the willing parent clients of your combined practices. If you cannot offer the groups, finding these resources is vital.

We will also discuss the following ideas that may or may not fit into your practice model:

1. Visiting child clients at their schools to talk with teachers about their emotional state (and possibly behavior issues) exhibited at school.
2. If group is not possible for the warring parents, the option of meeting with each separately or the two of them together if they can be slightly civil with each other (or agree to your “rules” for the joint session). The goal of this joint session (or more if you can get their cooperation) is to guide the parents to consider the long-term “business” of co-parenting and encourage them to make changes for the emotional wellbeing of their children.
3. Referral networks for this type of work (i.e., co-parenting groups or other therapists with same orientation = “the business of co-parenting” and divorce groups for kids and/or parents) are fantastic and perhaps some such networking could be begun through this webinar.

Just like in the above webinar, Participants are encouraged to submit situations ahead of time if desired.

Trainings are three (3) hours and certificates will be provided at the end of the seminar.

To register:  beyond-ethics.com/registration-for-ceus/

Approved for 3.0 in Diagnosis; no NBCC credits are available for this program through LCA.