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BRIEF INTERVENTION MODEL FOR ACCESS‐BASED POSTSEPARATION DISPUTES
Author(s) -
Birnbaum Rachel,
Radovanovic Helen
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.174-1617.1999.tb00549.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , service (business) , sample (material) , outcome (game theory) , psychology , business , psychiatry , economics , marketing , chemistry , mathematical economics , chromatography
With the increasing demand on the courts to “manage” parental disputes, coupled with the dwindling of publicily funded resources, briefer interventions to service some highly conflicted families become necessary. This article describe an innovative, brief intervention for examining access‐based disputes between parents before the courts in two public services in Ontario. Included will be a description of the model, the selection criteria, and the results of preliminary outcome data. Offering a differential intervention to a sample of 40 families has shown that less time was spent on the intervention and that no further court intervention was necessary. Parents reported satisfaction with the expeditious handling of their disputes .