The IACP Standards call for 15 hours of additional training, in
addition to the 12 hours of basic collaborative training and 30 hours
of mediation or similar training. The additional training can be
advanced mediation, communication skills, interest-based negotiation,
or more collaborative training (including the rest of your basic
training if it was 16 or 24 hours???).
Does anyone think that the 15 hrs. additional training, should be a
prerequisite to doing collaborative cases? And if it isn't, what are
the IACP Standards really for? Their own definition of what they are
for is basically circular: "The IACP sets the following basic
requirements for a professional to hold
herself/himself out as a Practitioner who satisfies IACP Standards
for Collaborative Practice in family related disputes."
I would especially like to know what the CP trainers out there
think, since people who go to trainings assume that that prepared
them to do collaborative cases.
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John Crouch
Arlington, Virginia
703-528-6700
divorce@xxxxxxxxxxx
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