[Download Now] Healing Children of High Conflict Families: Family-Based Strategies to Improve Emotional and Mental Health – Monica Johns

Do you work with children of high conflict families? These children are torn between their parents and forced to lie or take sides, afraid to love one parent while in the presence of the other. Fear of abandonment, low self-esteem, self-hatred, and lack of trust are some of the things they suffer from. They are resentful, depressed, anxious, and angry. They end up in the juvenile court system because of their oppositional behaviors. If you are frustrated because your strategies don’t improve your client’s mental and emotional health, look no further!

There are concrete family-based strategies that have a positive and immediate impact on these children.

• 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

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 after this recording. Your new skills will help you improve your clinical success rate.

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

A high conflict family is depicted.

• 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 can be used to measure.

• Strength of the perceived alliance between parents
• Parents’ ability to cooperate and negotiate with each other
• Willingness vs. ability

There are techniques and strategies to use.

• 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 is an intervention.

• Parent Coordinator
• Co-parent counselor
• Parenting plans
• Collaborate with attorneys, schools, social services, g uardian ad litems

The family system approach is 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

There are 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

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