Parenting Coordination: A Practical Guide for Family Law Professionals

Dr. Debra Carter has taken cutting edge research, years of experience in the field and written an easy to understand and practical guide for not only family law professionals but also helpful to parents experiencing a high conflict divorce and the resulting problems for children and extended family. I work in the field of family law and find Dr. Carter's book to be easily readable, a valuable tool for educating parents and helpful to me in writing parenting plans and parenting evaluations. Dr. Carter's book takes very lofty and recent research and puts it in a format anyone can easily use in their practice. I recommend it to parents as I think it can help non-professionals to parent effectively through a difficult separation or divorce. I highly recommend this book. I am using it myself in my own practice and find it very effective. If I could give more than five stars I would!

Dr. Carter explains what parent coordinators & GALs have been taught and NOT been taught and what they can and cannot do. She reveals how a parent coordinator or GAL, even with knowledge and skill, might not act independently and might overly rely on a judge or therapist that might also be misguided and might not get a true picture of the family dynamics and what is best for the children. It would be interesting if Dr. Carter would comment about Dr. Amy Baker's & Dr. Craig Childress's work on "restrictive gatekeeping parenting" as well as covert abusive parenting allowed by misguided or uncaring judges as portrayed in the 2017 documentary "Erasing Family.”

The book arrived later than the date they assigned. However the book is amazing, in excellent condition (it’s new) and I started it today and is an excellent resource for family law lawyers, social workers and other people who work on that area.

This is a fantastic, very informative book for any professional game enough to be a Parenting Coordinator. Answered all why questions and then some. Carefully considered, in-depth explanations of common issues.

Am still reading it.It's written in a perfect and easy English,Very interesting

This is a very helpful, well thought out text.

Quite good. Has validated my understanding of the role.

I recommend Parenting Coordination for anyone who is considering using the parenting coordination process to resolve disputes over time-sharing and parental responsibility. Dr. Carter uses language that is easy to read and understand, making this book a useful tool for both parents and professionals. Dr. Carter explains the unique professional role of a parenting coordinator and provides a step-by-step approach to the parenting coordination process. Each time I pick up this book, I learn a little more and the more I learn, the more I am inspired by the opportunities parenting coordination provides to parents who are entrenched in conflict. This alternative to expensive and damaging litigation should be available to parents in every jurisdiction. The book is a good academic treatise, but I really hope it will also encourage qualified professionals to obtain training and provide these services to families in their communities.