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SPSP, Shared Parenting Support Program
Description of The Shared Parenting Support Program (SPSP):
SPSP, the Shared Parenting Support Program is a structured nine session skills building course which is conducted with one set of parents who are both present in the sessions with the Parenting Faciltator. Parents learn skills from the Facilitator, do exercises in their SPSP workbook in sessions, practicing skills and receiving feedback directly from observation in sessions.
Parents choose to enroll in this program or may be referred by the Court and be Court-ordered to attend. The Courts may label parents as high conflict due to repeated hearings before the Judge on matters that can be best worked out between the parents if they develop the necessary skills that would allow them to do so.
Parents learn in sessions how to structure their communications about issues that arise during their parenting time with the children and how to inform the other parent without activating a "Blame" cycle. It is important for parents to be able to inform each other of health and behavioral concerns and discuss plans of action. Scheduling changes need to be communicated between parents regarding play dates, school schedule and activities, performances, conferences and appointments. Parents need a method for informing the receiving parent of anything outside the ordinary that may have occurred during their parenting time to ease the children's transition and prepare the other parent. Parents need to be able to meet on a quarterly, semi-annually or annual basis to plan for vacations, holidays, etc. in setting calendars, and negotiating changes in parenting time if needed to accomodate special events, and any extraordinary financial expensesthat might be coming up that may or may not have been addressed in the Court orders.
Each session parents have the opportunity to raise questions and issues that may have occurred in the interim. They may review how each parent responded as well as receive suggestions for better ways of handling similar situations in the future. There is also an opportunity to role play the situation, and practice incorporating the Facilitator's coaching into the interaction so if needed it can be fine-tuned to make sure that intended messages are being sent as well as received.
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