Mental Health Matters Forensic Edition March 2021   Published by: Lepage Associates Psychological & Psychiatric Services   First time recipient?  See below for info.

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Demystifying Reunification Therapy (RT): Roles & Responsibilities of the Therapist and Family Members

If the court has ordered or parties have consented to reunification therapy (RT), your clients may be looking to you as their attorney to explain to them what RT entails and what will be expected of them. Reunification therapy is a form of family therapy often court-ordered when a parent-child contact problem has culminated in the child refusing to spend time with one parent. This type of refusal is typically seen in separated or divorced families in which there is a ‘favored’ parent and a ‘rejected’ or ‘disenfranchised’ parent. Each person involved in the reunification therapy process (i.e. therapist, rejected parent, favored parent, and child) have their own roles and responsibilities. It is important to understand roles to help the reunification process be productive and successful. (Read on...)

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