BLUE Cluster : Meeting with Parents
The Blue Cluster is about our work with parents. It includes bringing feedback to parents at various levels of readiness, developing strategies to assisting parents to increase their regulation, and consideration of some of the harder issues of working within family systems affected by drugs and alcohol, family violence, mental health, trauma or family violence, this cluster will have a continuous development of theories and strategies.
Meeting with Parents
Duration
- 15 hours total
- 5 hours in live tutorial, 10 hours in self-paced learning.
Description
This two-day program is designed for family law practitioners including mediators, parenting coordinators, family dispute resolution practitioners, family law lawyers, children’s lawyers, children’s therapists, and child consultants. MWP uses the Child-Centred Continuum Model for understanding and working with parents who present from highly dysregulated to more emotionally organized. This training looks at four levels of parent presentations and examines ways to increase Parent Readiness to hear their children’s input.
Meeting with Parents for ADR and Family Law Practitioners focuses on:
- Identifying the continuum of parent presentations
- Strategies for working with and increasing parent readiness for child inclusion and parenting planning
- Strategies for calming and managing dysregulated clients
- How to bring appropriate levels of information back to different parents at each level of readiness parents from children
- Identifying the intersection between child readiness to provide input and parent readiness to hear their child
- Advanced use of the Parent Readiness Scale and the Child and Youth Readiness Scale in practice
- Identifying Child Development factors related to parent feedback
- Parent and Child Temperament
Training Approach
- Course is taught online over two weeks.
- Two 2.5-hour live tutorials and self-paced learning prior to tutorials.
Entry Requirements
- Completion of the Meeting with Children Program.
Master Class: Dysregulation
Duration
- 5 hours total
- 2.5 hours in live tutorial, 2.5 hours in self-paced learning.
Description
- This Master Class considers strategies for the management of easily dysregulated clients. Using the Parent Readiness Scale, we consider strategies for utilising the higher scoring items as engagement strategies for containment of dysregulation.
Training Approach
- One 2.5-hour live tutorial and self-paced learning.
Entry Requirements
- Open
- Pre-reading: The Child Centred Continuum Model
Master Class: The Use of Metaphor with Parents
Duration
- 5 hours total
- 2.5 hours in live tutorial, 2.5 hours in self-paced learning.
Description
- This Master Class considers the place of symbols and metaphors in work with adults.
Training Approach
- One 2.5-hour live tutorial and self-paced learning.
Entry Requirements
- Open
- Pre-Reading: The Child Centred Continuum Model