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OVERVIEW:
In high-conflict Family Court matters, parental narratives can be emotionally compelling and persistent. They are often shaped by biases, personal history, and protective strategies. How these narratives are managed can determine the case's direction and the child's outcomes.
This webinar provides practical, evidence-formed tools to stay child-focused without getting pulled into the parent's frame.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Set and hold a child-focused frame from the first interaction
Understand how threat, identity, and self-protection shape narratives
Listen to emotionally loaded narratives without losing
the child frame
Validate without reinforcing distortion
Guide conversations back
to child focus without confrontation
Use the SCIPT framework separate facts from interpretation, recognise protective distortion, and guide narratives toward
child-focused reality
SCRIPT FRAMEWORK
SCRIPT is an evidence-informed structure for analysing and responding to parental narratives in high-conflict matters.
S - SEPARATE
Distinguish facts, interpretations, assumptions, and emotional meanings
C - CONSTRUCTED MEANING
Identify where fear, attachment, prior experience, or perceived threat shape reality
R - RECOGNISE DISTORTION AS PROTECTIVE PROCESSING
Understand amplification and minimisation as adaptive responses
I - IMPACT ON THE CHILD
Keep the child's development, wellbeing, safety, relationships, and long-term outcomes as the anchor
P - POSITION TOWARD CHILD FOCUS
Maintain a professional stance that keeps the child visible as a person
T - TRAIN THE NARRATIVE
Use careful language, calibrated validation, and targeted redirection to support a reality-based, child focused account
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
FAMILY COURT LAWYERS
LAWYER FOR CHILD
PSYCHOLOGISTS
MEDIATORS
COUNSELLORS
REPORT WRITERS
SOCIAL WORKERS