Description
Do you work with children of high-conflict families who are caught in the middle of toxic and never ending parental conflict? These children are torn between both parents and forced to lie or take sides—afraid to love one parent while in the presence of the other.
Monica Johns – Healing Children of High Conflict Families: Family-Based Strategies to Improve Emotional and Mental Health
They suffer from fear of abandonment, low self-esteem, self-hatred, and lack of trust. And, they are resentful, depressed, anxious, and angry. Their oppositional behaviors get them into serious trouble, landing them in the juvenile court system. If you are frustrated because your strategies do little to improve your client’s mental and emotional health—look no further!
Join high-conflict family expert Monica Johns, LPC, NCC, and learn concrete family-based strategies that have a positive and immediate impact on these children, including such as:
Integrating client-centered techniques including Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy and Emotional-Focused Therapy into therapy
Tools to assess parental alienation behaviors and Hostile Aggressive Parenting
Techniques that guide co-parents to move past their toxic hostility, anger, revenge, manipulation, resentment
Activities to teach families non-hostile communication, conflict resolution and relationship-building skills
Methods to detect and navigate parental and child manipulation and agendas
Activities that teach children self-care, resiliency and coping strategies
Steps to becoming a successful court-appointed therapist
After this recording, you will be able to evaluate these high conflict families, assess their needs, make recommendations, and educate other professionals on the damage of this never ending conflict. Your new skills will open the door to a new, healthier family structure and improve your clinical success rate!
Handouts
Manual (1.54 MB) 25 Pages Available after Purchase
Outline
Illustration of a High Conflict Family (HCF)
Long-term impact on children’s mental and emotional health
Hostile Aggressive Parenting (HAP)
Parental alienation behaviors
Parental personality disorders
Alienation vs. estrangement vs. justified resistance
Assessment Tools to Measure
Strength of the perceived alliance between parents
Parents’ ability to cooperate and negotiate with each other
Willingness vs. ability
Techniques and Strategies to:
Confront family anger, revenge, fear, conflict addiction, grief and embarrassment
Detect and navigate parental and/or child manipulation and agendas
Explore and challenge a child’s resistance to parental contact
Educate parents and child the effects of high-conflict families
Diffuse parental conflict while teaching them to remain child-focused
Challenge co-parents to make child-focused decisions
Overcome strong alliance and internalized false beliefs
Manage parental personality disorders
Teach coping, self-care and resiliency skills
Develop non-hostile communication and conflict resolution skills
Promote healthy co-parenting skills and relationship-building skills
Eye opening family strategies
Alternative Dispute Resolution as an Intervention
Parent Coordinator
Co-parent counselor
Parenting plans
Collaborate with attorneys, schools, social services, guardian ad litems
Family System Approach: A Step-by-Step Process on How To:
Conduct a home visit
Clean up the boundaries
Establish the rules
Create safe place
Manage family meetings
Access needed support systems
Ethical Obligations
Confidentiality
Emotional abuse and neglect
Reporting/involving Child Protective Services (CPS)
Ethical violations
Dual relationships and impartiality
Impact of ongoing custody litigation on treatment
