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Research supporting safer outcomes for children and families.
Learning for Separated-Family Practice
CoPA provides professional education for practitioners and organisations working with separated families.
Training is designed for professionals in counselling, psychology, social work, mediation, family support, family law, child protection, education, domestic and family violence services, and related fields.
Training Topics May Include
- Foundations of complex separated-family practice
- Child development, attachment, and family systems
- Coercive control in post-separation dynamics
- Distinguishing ordinary conflict from patterns of harm
- Voice of the child
- Child interviewing and suggestibility
- Parent-child contact difficulties
- Relationship repair and safe reconnection
- Intervention pathways across levels of concern
- Documentation and professional reasoning
- Ethical practice and referral responsibilities
Possible Course Titles
- Foundations in Separated-Family Practice
- Voice of the Child in Professional Practice
- Child Interviewing and Suggestibility
- Coercive Control versus Normal Range Behaviour
- Parent-Child Contact Difficulties
- Intervention Pathways and Relationship Repair
- Professional Documentation and Reasoning