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Why Mental Health Consultation Works
What. Hiring a consultation is almost like having a mental health expert on-call and at your service during your time of need. If you ever need to find out how to handle your former spouse, deal with a child experiencing troubling behaviors, or even just dealing with day-to-day struggles, consultation might be the option for…
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Parental Alienation & How to cope
What is Parental Alienation (PA)? Parental Alienation occurs when a parent knowingly and purposely turns a child against the other parent after a divorce or separation. The child can begin believing the alienating parent and could potentially build an alliance, which then results in a damaged relationship with the victim parent who has been alienated.…
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Taking the conflict out of co-parenting after divorce
It can be difficult to communicate with your former spouse after divorce. For this reason, we developed some tips to help you communicate, without the conflict. Always remember, to give us a call if you or someone you know, would benefit from our services. Keep things businesslike Use a strictly professional tone when communicating with…
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How to know when your parenting plan is negatively affecting your child
What is a parenting plan? If you are divorced and you have a minor child with your former spouse, according to Chapter 61 of FL statutes you are required to have a document called a “parenting plan” that outlines when and where timesharing will occur with your child and the other parent. Typically, the parenting…
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Reactive Attachment Disorder in Our Dependency Courts
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? RAD is a very serious disorder that must be identified before the age of 5 in children. According to the DSM 5, a tool mental health professionals use to diagnose disorders, RAD can be classified as a severe, but rare disorder. RAD occurs when the bond between the infant…
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Diagnosing in Therapy: Pros and cons of being diagnosed by your therapist
Many individuals seek out therapy for several reasons: stress, anxiety, depression, etc. What people may not know, is that many therapists will typically diagnose you, the client, with a clinical diagnosis that could potentially follow you in several ways, and could also hurt you in the future. What is a diagnosis? A diagnosis is the…
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What does a biased child custody report look like?
Anchoring. One of the most basic forms of bias is called “anchoring.” In this situation, the child custody evaluator uses initial judgments and preliminary conclusions to make their decisions. This could hurt the outcome seeing as information that is gathered later, could be excluded or left out. The major problem with anchoring, is it can…
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Bias and Inaccurate Parenting Evaluations: 3 Tips From An Expert
After receiving the results of a parenting evaluation, which likely includes recommendations for timesharing and decision making responsibilities, many parents are left feeling speechless and shocked by the clear signs of biases found throughout the final report. This is because, the reality is, that the results of a Social Investigation (previously referred to as a…
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Was my child custody evaluation done properly?!
Child custody evaluations should never be taken lightly and should always be done by mental health experts who specialize in family law. So, if you’ve recently gotten a child custody evaluation and you aren’t sure if it was done properly, read over these simple questions to check if your evaluation is solid: Inequality of time…
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Discipline v. Punishment? Parents Who Learn the Difference see a Difference!
There are two very different ways of attempting to change a child’s negative behaviors. The first is punishment and the other discipline. If what you are doing now isn’t working, I’d venture to guess you’ll recognize yourself as having a punitive parent. If you need to see fast changes, keep reading to jump on the…