Working with Separation and Divorce

WORKING WITH FAMILIES TRANSITIONING THROUGH DIVORCE

These two half-day training will introduce participants to some of the issues and challenges working with families as they navigate a separation or divorce. Key training for counsellors, family workers, and other helping professionals gain a professional understanding of the unique challenges working with divorcing families, including:

• ethical issues and the intersection with family law;
• interdisciplinary practice challenges, risk of court involvement, importance of consent agreements
• clinical issues often present in divorcing families using case examples
• key theoretical frameworks (family systems, attachment theory, trauma informed)
• awareness of alternative dispute resolutions, process of getting divorced in BC
• special issues in divorce – IPV, Substance abuse, high conflict personalities, alienation and resist/refusal dynamics – case examples

This is a virtual synchronous training over Zoom, and will include break out room discussions, use of case study, and access to support documents (sample consents, parenting agreements, resource list)