The PC role: models of service delivery

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The PC role models of service delivery

• Matthew J. Sullivan, Ph.D.
• californiaparentcoordinator.com

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PC SurveyKirkland and Sullivan (submitted to FCR)

• 54 PCs, 20 Questions
• 44 psychologists
• 19 MSW
• 15 Masters level counselors
• 11 Bachelors level counselors
• 11 attorneys

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PC Survey

• 18 years total practice experience
• 8 years practicing as PC
• Percent of practice
• 5-70
• 40 on average

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PC Survey

• Fees
• 20-400, 200 average
• 90 retainer, 20 hours typical
• Term
• 2-3 years to open ended
• 92 Use of collateral sources
• Complaints
• 11 formal complaints, 1 civil suit, none
  sustained

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Essential elements of PC services

• Evaluative/Assessment
• Methods of assessment
• Appointment comes with CE
• Formal methods, impasse model

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Communication Protocols and Procedures
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• Communications protocols and procedures
• Clients Access to the process, communication
  with coparent, communication with others
• PC contact with parents children professionals
  - attorneys, therapists (parents,children),
  others - significant others, coaches, teachers

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• Access to information
• Previous (health, MH) - parents and children
• Current
• Substance abuse, medication
• Collaborative teams of professionals
• confidentiality

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• Facilitation of agreements
• Is it mediation? Methods of generating agreements
  (dispute resolution in the PC process)
• Working with parenting plan - structure,
  defaults, eliminating gray areas

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• Arbitration/decision-making
• Shifting to decision-making - demarcation
• Rules of Arbitration
• Scope, expertise, evaluation, use of 3rd parties

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• Documentation
• Within the process, in relation to the court
• Confidentiality, use in court
• Writing orders/recommendations/agreements
• Writing reports

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• Case Management
• Monitoring and enforcement of parenting plan
• Professional teams - referrals, coordination of
  interventions
• Terms, fees

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• Review of work (decisions and conduct)
• Procedures for objections
• Relationship of PC process to the court
• None, de novo, subordinate judicial process that
  is appealed with a standard of review
• Grievances - procedures
• Multiple review bodies for professional conduct
• Courts, professional licensing board,
  professional organization (APA, ABA), civil
  lawsuit