Download e-book for kindle: Counseling in the Family Law System: A Professional by Virginia Allen EdD

This sensible profession consultant is the 1st ebook written in particular for pro counselors on tips to supply prone to the kinfolk courtroom method, a turning out to be and profitable box of perform. Written by way of a qualified counselor with over twenty years of expertise, it discusses the jobs of counselors in family members courtroom and offers step by step instructions on the way to extend oneís counseling perform to incorporate family members forensic companies. It describes the best way to input the sector, construct a profitable perform, and the way to paintings successfully with legal professionals and judges in addition to mom and dad and youngsters.

The publication offers particular directions and examples of the way to speak successfully with legal professionals, behavior interviews with mom and dad and youngsters, make strategies for custody and visitation, write studies, and effectively testify in court docket. content material builds at the history and services already possessed by means of the pro counselor, and describes the benefits that counselors haveóand demanding situations they need to usually overcomeóin effectively training within the family members legislation method. incorporated is a wealth of correct information regarding the courtroom procedure, definitions of felony phrases, criteria of perform required by way of the organization of relatives and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), education and licensing specifications for evaluators and mediators, scope of perform, and moral matters. The booklet additionally contains varieties for taking interview notes, templates for writing stories, examples of tangible studies, pattern visitation schedules, and case studies.

Key Features:

• Written in particular for counselors, by way of an skilled counselor
• Offers a pragmatic, step by step strategy for counselors with little felony history
• Describes tips to speak with lawyers and behavior interviews with mom and dad and youngsters, together with dos and doníts
• Includes templates for accomplishing interviews, writing reviews, visitation/parenting plans, pattern reviews, and case examples
• Examines myths and misunderstandings concerning forensic relations perform