Co-Parenting: Practical Tools for Two-Home Families

Many therapists work with co-parents in some capacity. Whether working with an individual who is a co-parent, with co-parents of a child-client, or with a couple who may be transitioning to two-homes and will be co-parenting in the future.

This course addresses the challenges co-parents experience transitioning to two-homes and setting up a two-home system. This course also addresses the emotional adjustment co-parents experience and identifies the behaviors co-parents engage in that negatively affect their children. This course will teach therapists how to guide co-parents and learn practical tools to use in session when educating and supporting co-parents no matter where they are in their family adjustment.

2 hours CE. Recorded video format (non-interactive)

ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 2.03 hours 

CE CREDITS: 2.00 continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists

TARGET AUDIENCE: Mental Health Practitioners

LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Intermediate

PREREQUISITE(S): None

INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Recorded video format (non-interactive)

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Closed captioning of audio components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS: To obtain your CE certificate, learners must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.

FINANCIAL/COMMERCIAL SUPPORT STATEMENT: This course has no commercial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:  This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.

GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICIES: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.

PARTICIPATION COSTS:  The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.

COURSE CREATION DATE: 

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Educate co-parents on what research suggests about parental conflict in two-home structures and how this impacts their children
• Integrate 4 practical tools/worksheets into their work with co-parent clients including: communication skills, boundaries skills, and perspective taking skills
• Describe co-parenting behaviors which negatively impact children and make them feel in the middle of parental conflict

1. What does the research suggest?
   1. Divorce as an ACE - why is this?
   2. Impact of ongoing parental conflict
   3. Kids experiencing “being in the middle” of co-parents (Micro / macro)
2. Co-parenting behaviors which negatively impact children
   1. Intensity and frequency scale : unhelpful v. harmful behaviors
   2. HOW to talk with co-parents without shame or blame - child lens
3. 4 Practical Tools for working with co-parents
   1. Grief / Relief Scale
   2. The “Backpack”
   3. Parent Brain / Ex-Spouse Brain
   4. Two-Home Tasks
   5. The Child News Report