Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Experto en coordinación parental

Modality: Blended

The completion of a classic program typically entails earning 15 ECTS credits

Contact Hours: 45 hours

A. Parental Coordination

• A.1. Conceptualization: Parental Coordination, conflict, and high conductivity
• A.2. Development of the figure and differences and intervention with other professionals
• A.3. Principles of action, objectives, strategy, and action plan.

B. Legal module

• B.1. Family Law and the Best Interest of the Child: basic concepts
• B.2. Separation and dissolution of marriage: substantive and procedural aspects
• B.3. Legal framework of parental coordination.

C Psychological module

• C.1. Psychological profiles that favor conflictive divorce
• C.2. Child abuse and emotional damage to the minor
• C.3. Psychosocial strategies of children for coping with the conflict

D. Intervention module

• D.1. Intervention process and techniques: Communication techniques and conflict resolution
• D.2. Intervention process and techniques: Parenting plan
• D.3. Intervention process and techniques: Intervention phase
• D.4. Intervention process and techniques: Cases

Continuous assessment system with tests and/or practical cases and a final exam.

General Competences

Acquire the Parental Competencies that the figure of the Parental Coordinator contributes and teaches in the management of High Family Conflict processes. These competencies are oriented in four areas: Educational, parental, personal autonomy, and personal development.

1) Educational area

• Affection in relationships and recognition of achievements.
• Control and supervision of children's behavior thanks to the communication and promotion of confidence in their good intentions and abilities.
• Stimulation and support for learning: promotion of motivation, planning activities, and tasks, future orientation.
• Adaptability to the characteristics of the child: capacity for observation, flexibility or perspectivism, assertiveness.
• Use different communication formats for parental messages, argumentation, dialogue, and instructions.

2) Parental area:

• Parental self-efficacy: Perception of one's own abilities to carry out the role of parents.
• Internal control of situations, the ability to change what happens around you that must be changed.
• Agreement in the couple of the educational criteria and the behaviors to follow with the children.
• Have a realistic idea that the task of being parents involves effort, time and dedication.
• Satisfaction in the task of being mothers and fathers.

3) Personal autonomy:

• Involvement in the educational task.
• Responsibility for the welfare of the child.
• A positive vision of the child and the family.
• Seek help from significant others in order to complement the parental role rather than replace or devalue it.
• Identify and use resources to meet needs as parents and as adults.

4) Personal development:

• Impulse control.
• Assertiveness.
• Self-esteem.
• Social skills.
• Regulation and emotional intelligence.
• Coping strategies and stress management.
• Resolution of interpersonal conflicts.
• Ability to respond to multiple tasks and challenges.
• Planning and life project.

Specific Competences

• Competence 1: Know and understand the legal and regulatory framework for the protection of children, adolescents, and people with modified capacity, family law, and its jurisprudential update, being able, in addition, to understand court decisions, protection orders, reports custody experts, clinical reports, etc.
• Competence 2: Understand the legal, regulatory framework and legal procedures related to the exercise of parenting coordination, family mediation and other psycho-legal and educational interventions.
• Competence 3: Understand and know how to exercise the functions and good practices of the professional performance of parenting coordination.
• Competence 4: Apply personal self-knowledge and self-care skills, being able to manage one's own cognitions and emotions in situations of frustration, confrontation, uncertainty and stress.
• Competence 5: Know how to evaluate the effectiveness of their own actions and decisions, and reflect on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their own knowledge and decisions.
• Competence 6: Know and understand the foundations and cognitive, affective, motivational and behavioral psychological processes that are necessary to develop the professional role of Parenting Coordination.
• Competence 7: Know and know how to identify situations of vulnerability, child abuse, gender violence and other forms of violence, being able, in addition, to know how to apply the necessary actions to prevent, avoid and stop situations of abuse and violence.
• Competence 8: Understand, from an ecosystem perspective, family relationships and contexts of family diversity, also being able to identify the elements, characteristics, processes and dynamics of the family from that perspective.
• Competence 9: Knowing how to carry out evaluations and analysis of family conflict, and develop hypotheses related to said conflict.
• Competence 10: Understand the dynamics of interpersonal conflicts, their types, characteristics and processes.
• Competence 11: Know and understand the psychological functioning of people in a situation of family conflict.
• Competence 12: Know and understand the dynamics of the breakup and post-breakup of a couple, its consequences and the post-breakup parenting models.
• Competence 13: Understand and identify risk or conflict situations related to possible psychopathologies.
• Competence 14: Identify and understand child and adolescent psycho-evolutionary development, the needs of children and educational styles and the consequences for their education and psychology.
• Competence 15: Identify the criteria and indicators of high family conflict, being able to know how to organize the phases of the intervention, its protocols and methodologies of the Coordination of Parenting.
• Competence 16: Know the fundamentals and the theoretical framework that allow designing and carrying out interventions for Coordination of Parenting. And be able to develop and implement a parenting plan based on scientific evidence.
• Competence 17: Understand the different professional roles involved in breakup processes and know how to apply relational skills to cooperate with other professionals in carrying out functions and tasks specific to their professional profile.
• Competence 18: Know how to organize and manage documentation and present the results of their intervention actions, preparing reports and professional parenting coordination documents and being able to orally communicate their conclusions and reasons in an orderly and clear manner.
• Competence 19: Understand the importance of professional improvement through continuous training, supervision, updating in the management of ICTs and active participation in the improvement processes of the Parenting Coordination.
• Competence 20: Apply skills for data collection, aimed at research and innovation, being necessary to understand the basics of research methodologies in the Social Sciences.
• Competence 21: Know and know how to apply the fundamentals of communication, and develop interpersonal communication skills and team and cooperative work to relate to professionals from different specialties, overcoming individualism and personal orientations.
• Competence 22: Know and know how to manage the emotions of the people involved.
• Competence 23: Know and know how to apply psychoeducational intervention strategies with families in conflict situations.
• Competence 24: Identify the deficit in basic psychosocial skills (planning, causality, consequence, perspective-empathy, alternative thinking, frustration tolerance, assertive communication, etc.) and those related to problem solving and decision making.
• Competence 25: Know and know how to apply the different interview techniques and methods to children, adolescents and adults, being able to know how to apply different basic and advanced methodologies and techniques of mediation and conflict management.
• Competence 26: Know and understand the reference legislation in the field of Human Rights and, especially, in relation to the Rights of the Child.
• Competence 27: Know and understand the gender perspective as a methodology for analyzing social reality.