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Families: Explore New Ways
One of the biggest problems in separation and divorce cases is the focus on finding "Who is to Blame?" And "What did he or she do wrong?" Except for obviously extreme behavior (severe abuse or blatant lies), these are very subjective questions with few clear answers. In many cases, parents spend years in court and tens of thousands of dollars attacking each other and defending themselves.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
New Ways for Families™ focuses on helping people learn "new ways" of thinking, feeling and behaving, rather than focusing on the past or blaming each other.
New Ways is a short-term, 4-Step structured method for parents re-organizing their families after or during a separation or divorce. This method can be used at any time by any family, from the beginning of the separation process or even after the divorce.
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Getting Started
New Ways for Families™ is a 4-Step method with an overall goal to help both parents develop new ways of making decisions, communicating, and planning for your children in a separation or divorce.
It is specifically designed to immunize parents and children against becoming high-conflict families in the family court system. It focuses on strengthening skills before long-term parenting decisions are made.
This method may be used if you jointly agree to use this approach, or if a court ordered you to attend; whether you have direct contact with each other or no direct contact; and whether the child is an infant or an older child.
New Ways is beneficial for parents involved in mediation, collaborative divorce, and those litigating in family court.
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Professionals: Explore New Ways
New Ways for Families™ is an exciting new method for handling the growing problem of high-conflict families in our courts. It is designed to save courts time, to save parents money, and to protect children as their families re-organize in new ways after a separation or divorce, for married or never-married parents.
This interdisciplinary approach requires the cooperation and coordination of all professionals in addressing clients inside or outside the court process.
The counseling component is brief and highly structured. It gives parents a chance to focus on making positive changes rather than becoming preoccupied with defending themselves in the endless “attack-defend” cycle of parenting evaluation and litigation.
It can be a partial assessment tool for future parenting orders. It gives parents a chance to change before final decisions are made.
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Getting Trained
Our 6-hour New Ways for Families™ Basic Training is designed for all professionals working with children and families in the family court setting. It is required for mental health practitioners who want to be listed as providers of New Ways counseling, and lawyers and collaborative divorce professionals who want to be included on the New Ways referral lists. Other family court professionals, including judicial officers, family court professionals, attorneys, parenting coordinators, mediators and collaborative divorce professionals should complete the New Ways Basic Training to understand the difference between the New Ways method and traditional counseling, and the reasoning and procedures of each of the four steps. For New Ways for Families™ to be effective for high-conflict families, all professionals involved must continuously reinforce the skills learned in the New Ways program.
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