Co-Parenting: Practical Tools for Two-Home Families

About the Course

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)

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Course Overview

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.

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Learning Objectives

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

Course Outline

  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

CE Information


American Psychological Association (APA)
Psych Hub is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course receive 2.00 continuing education credits.

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Psych Hub, #1750, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 2.00 clinical continuing education credits.

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Psych Hub is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CAMFT Approval #1000074. Course meets the qualifications for 2.00 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Psych Hub has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7051. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Psych Hub is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Counselors completing this course receive 2.00 continuing education hours.

New York State Education Department - Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSED-LMHC)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0257. New York State licensed mental health counselors completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.

New York State Education Department - Marriage & Family Therapists (NYSED-MFT)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0109. New York State marriage and family therapists completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.

New York State Education Department - Psychology (NYSED-PSY)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0208. New York State licensed psychologists completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.

New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSED-SW)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0699. New York State social workers completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.

Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider Number 50-45376. Participants completing this course earn 2.00 continuing education credits.

Experts


Brandyn Roark Caires, MS, LCPC
Brandyn Roark Caires is a Montana Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (#23438) in private practice in Bozeman, MT, specializing in working with children in two-home structures. She has more than 20 years of experience in the children's mental health field. She is a co-founder of Parent Team, an online resource for parents and clinicians navigating challenges of separation and divorce.