Parent coordinators? Who are they?
A Parent Coordinator (PC) is usually a licensed mental health professional or an attorney assigned by the courts to manage ongoing issues in high-conflict parenting cases. The PC’s decisions then become court-ordered. We are also frequently seeing parents voluntarily engage a PC to help them with their conflicts around their children. The parents agree to abide by the decisions made by the PC.
Some of the issues where a PC may be of help:
•In cases of very high conflict, a PC will structure communication between the parents to ensure that it is businesslike and respectful or assist the parents in other ways to relate information about the children to each other.
•The PC will establish protocols for how the parents will be approaching specific situations to minimize the possibility of ongoing conflict between them.
•The PC will educate parents about the impact of high conflict on the children.
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