Elements and Performance Criteria
- Support parents to maintain child focused approaches to planning and actions
- Focus on children's issues as a matter of priority
- Ensure the child is centre of support and intervention plans
- Engage parents using a range of communication techniques to establish an understanding of required contact behaviour
- Manage parents inappropriate attempts to exchange information
- Manage inter parental disputes and assist parents to recognise the needs of children and young people are separate to that of their own emotional needs
- Seek clarification and understanding of court orders to determine legal parameters of any service provision or interventions
- Reconcile competing ideas on the best interests of the child with the resident and non resident parent
- Create and maintain child focused environment
- Plan activities and interactions with parents ensuring they are developmentally ageappropriate for the child
- Provide resources for safe interactions of child and parents
- Provide service that ensures the child's needs and wants are central to the case activities
- Engage the reluctant and non participative child
- Evaluate and monitor child focused practice