Parenting During a Pandemic and Other Tough Times for couples parenting parents Mar 15, 2022

 Kara Hoppe, MA, MFT

PACT Level 2

PACT Note to Parents: For guided practice and more skills to bring to your partnership, register for Kara’s Win-Win Parenting: Better Partners Make Better Parents, a new PACT workshop for couples, Saturdays online, April 23–May 21. 


When I read articles such as...

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Collaboration in the Co-Parenting Partnership aurisha smolarski children co-parenting for couples parenting Sep 19, 2020

By Aurisha Smolarski, MA, LMFT 

PACT Level 2 Therapist
www.aurishasmolarski.com


 No one said parenting was easy, let alone co-parenting with an ex.

Learning how to co-parent is complicated. It’s a partnership full of emotional undertones and adjustments. Being divorced or separated and having ...

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Joysticks and Controllers: Using PACT With Kids Who Use Video Games Obsessively children jason brand parenting Jun 18, 2017

Jason Brand, LCSW
PACT Level II
Berkeley, CA
www.jasonbrand.com

Video games used to have joysticks—simple black boxes with a red trigger button and a stick for movement. Today they have controllers that are multi-buttoned, provide sensory feedback, and obey spoken commands. In many families, I see a l...

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The Making of a Third for couples for therapists parenting sara slater thirds May 15, 2017

Sara Slater, MSW, LICSW

Seattle, WA

PACT Level III candidate

[email protected]

 

Apparently the pregnant couple in my office didn’t want to talk about preparing for baby at all. Instead, in the first minutes of their first session, Meg launched into her frustrations about their house an...

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Find Your Mentor Couple for couples ideas modeling pair bonding parenting prevention stan tatkin Dec 26, 2012

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

One of my mentors, Marion Solomon, introduced me to the brilliant idea of mentor couples. Also known as marriage mentors and sponsor couples, this concept originated in the church setting but is becoming increasingly popular. Basically, a mentor couple is on...

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