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Digital Seminar

High Conflict Families: Healing the Hostility, Revenge, Manipulation and Parental Alienation


Speaker:
Monica P Johns, LPC, NCC
Duration:
5 Hours 59 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jun 10, 2016
Product Code:
POS049550
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD


Description

  • Assess for Parental Alienation Behaviors and Hostile Aggressive Parenting
  • Confront manipulation and stay out of the “co-parenting quicksand”
  • Ethical obligations and violations
  • Steps to resolve entrenched parental conflict
  • Develop non-hostile communication, conflict resolution and relationship-building skills
  • Teach self-care, resilience and coping strategies

High-conflict co-parents destroy their children. Torn between both parents and being forced to lie—or take sides—these children become depressed, anxious, stressed and get in trouble. They suffer from grief, fear of abandonment, anger, resentment and are afraid to love one parent while with the other parent. As clinicians, we are seeing more and more of these cases.

Join high-conflict family expert Monica Johns, LPC, NCC, and learn how to firmly, yet positively, push co-parents out of their enmeshed, negative relationship and move into a new, healthier type of structure. You will leave the day with specific tools to guide co-parents past their hostility, anger, revenge, manipulation, resentment, guilt, and grief, which will have a direct, positive and immediate impact on the children.

Attend with an open mind and a willingness to challenge old techniques in working with high-conflict families. Leave with a deeper insight into the psychology of high-conflict families and how they attempt to manipulate you and other professionals. Your new knowledge will open doors for your clients as well as new doors for other professionals seeking your expertise.

Walk away with explicit strategies and tools to:

  • Detect Parental Alienation Behaviors and Hostile Aggressive Parenting
  • Assess the high-conflict family and conduct a thorough home visit
  • Teach non-hostile communication, conflict resolution and relationship-building skills
  • Confront hostility, anger, revenge, manipulation, resentment, guilt and grief
  • Stay out of the “co-parenting quicksand”
  • Teach self-care, resilience and coping strategies
  • Proactively work with attorneys, Guardian Ad Litems and Social Services
  • Illustrate the ethical pros and cons of parental behaviors relating to emotional abuse and neglect

OUTLINE

Illustration of a High Conflict Family (HCF)

  • What does a HCF look like?
  • Hostile Aggressive Parenting
  • Parental Alienation Behaviors
  • 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
  • Parental personality disorders

INTERVENTIONS FOR WORKING WITH HIGH CONFLICT FAMILIES:

Family System Approach: A Step by Step Process

  • Conduct a home visit
  • Clean up the boundaries
  • Establish the rules
  • Create safe place
  • Manage family meetings
  • Access needed support systems
  • Eye opening family strategies

Sessions with Child/Children

  • The child’s voice
  • Confront grief, anger, fears and embarrassment
  • Address child manipulation
  • Conquer resistance to parental contact
  • Relationship-building skills
  • Self-care and resiliency strategies
  • Coping strategies
  • Overcome strong alliance and internalized false beliefs

Sessions with Co-Parents

  • Steps to resolve entrenched parental conflict
  • Confront family grief, anger, revenge, conflict addiction
  • Address parental manipulation
  • Overcome strong alliance and internalized false beliefs
  • Navigate co-parent agendas
  • Manage parental personality disorders
  • Self-care and resilience strategies
  • Non-hostile communication skills
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • Healthy co-parenting skills

Alternative Dispute Resolution Options

  • Parent Coordinator
  • Parenting plans
  • Collaborate with outside systems, such as attorneys, schools, Social Services, Guardian Ad Litems

Ethical Obligations

  • Confidentiality
  • Emotional abuse and neglect
  • Reporting/involving Child Protective Services (CPS)
  • Ethical violations
  • Dual relationships and impartiality

OBJECTIVES

  • Illustrate the psychology of a high-conflict family and how they attempt to manipulate others.
  • Identify Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation Behaviors.
  • Demonstrate techniques to motivate and challenge co-parents in making child-focused decisions.
  • Construct a safe environment giving children permission to love both parents.
  • Employ effective strategies to navigate and defuse family grief, anger, revenge and conflict addiction.
  • State the ethical necessity to reduce high conflict for the emotional and mental health of the children.
  • Design and inspire a supportive, family friendly team of professionals.

 

 

Credit


* Credit Note - **

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Counselors - Counselors

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Counselors - Texas Counselors

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

This program has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Approval #4540.


Social Workers - Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 5.25 Clinical and 1.0 Ethics continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. No more than 6.25 total CE hours may be awarded for this activity. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance.


Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 5.25 Clinical and 1.0 Ethics continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 contact hours.


Social Workers - Kansas Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours.


Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study package has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - New York Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This self-study activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Social Workers - Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #: RCST071001. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc., is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology.Provider Number #50-399.This product qualifies for 6.3 self-study continuing education credits.


Psychologists - Psychologists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 credits.


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 6.25 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


Chaplains/Clergy

This self-study program is designed to qualify for 6.25 continuing education hours.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

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Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Chaplains/Clergy, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

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