Cooperative Parenting Program
The Cooperative Parenting program covers a wide variety of topics in eight sessions that puts children first while creating promising solutions that focus on education and the prevention of parental conflict.
The goals of the program include:
- Assisting parents in shifting their roles to co-parents
- Educating parents regarding the impact of parental conflict on their child’s development
- Helping parents identify their contributions to conflict while increasing impulse control
- Teaching parents anger management, communication and conflict resolution skills and children’s issues in divorce
Cooperative Parenting benefits children by:
- Reducing the child’s symptoms of stress as parental conflict decreases
- Diminishing the child’s sense of loyalty binds.
- Allowing the child to love both parents
- Creating a more relaxed home atmosphere, allowing the child to adjust more effectively
- Teaching effective communication and conflict-resolution skills as modeled by their parents
- Increasing the likelihood of keeping two active parents in the child’s life
Session 1
Making the Commitment to Caring
(Child-Focused or Out of Focus)
Session 2
Allowing My Child to Love Both Parents (Plan for Peace or Tug of War)
Session 3
Changing My Long Term Role
(Letting Go or Holding On)
Session 4
Choosing My Personal Path
(Make it Better or Keep it Bitter)
Managing My Own Anger
(Neither Fight nor Take Flight)
Session 6
Taking Control of Conflict
(Defuse or Light the Fuse)
Session 7
Negotiating Agreement
(All a Winner or Winner Take All)
Session 8
Co-Parenting Is Forever
(Cooperation or Conflict)