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Since 1991 PACE has been recognized as a national mental health professional organization. PACE certifies qualified mental health professionals to practice the specialties of Custody Evaluator and/or Parenting Coordinator. These individuals hold the following credentials:

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Nationally Certified Parenting Coordinator™ (NCPC) PACE, as a recognized professional organization, certifies qualified mental health professionals to practice the mental health specialty of Parenting Coordinator. They will hold the credential of Nationally Certified Parenting Coordinator™(NCPC) What is a Parenting Coordinator? The use of Parenting Coordinators is a relatively new intervention to manage high-conflict custody cases. Parents retain and compensate a clinician to arbitrate ongoing child-related disputes either by private agreement or by Court Order. That clinician then becomes the Parenting Coordinator. What does the Parenting Coordinator do? The Parenting Coordinator works directly with the parents to help them communicate more effectively and avoid conflicts about child-related issues. Parents who are constantly in court about child-related issues (such as a holiday visitation schedule or the sharing of information about a child’s academic or medical developments) might benefit from opinions and guidance to help make communication more effective. In addition, the parenting coordinator mediates issues, and when the parents are unable to agree, the parenting coordinator is often given the power to arbitrate what the result should be. Ultimately, the court has the final say over child custody and visitation issues, but a Parenting Coordinator can drastically reduce the need to go to court and therefore reduce conflict for the children in families involved in such disputes. Members will have two documents to verify their certification. One is a license-sized certificate (8” X 5”) with special built-in security characteristics and the other is a full-sized certificate for your office. They both contain all of the relevant information and attest to the fact that the named recipient "has satisfied the requirements for education, training, and experience, contained in PACE’S Criteria and is therefore recognized as a Nationally Certified Parenting Coordinator." Additionally, court personnel and prospective clients will be invited to visit a new website, being developed as both a registry and also to enhance the credibility and stature of the Nationally Certified Parenting Coordinator™(NCPC). The Academy Register site is being developed NOW. Click on the name above to visit.

Nationally Certified Custody Evaluator™ (NCCE) PACE, as a recognized professional organization, certifies qualified custody evaluators to practice the mental health specialty of Custody Evaluator. They will hold the credential of Nationally Certified Custody Evaluator™ (NCCE). Members will have two documents to verify their certification. One is a license-sized certificate (8” X 5”) with special built-in security characteristics and the other is a full-sized certificate for your office. They both contain all of the relevant information and attest to the fact that the named recipient "has satisfied the requirements for education, training, and experience, contained in PACE’S Criteria and is therefore recognized as a Nationally Certified Custody Evaluator." Additionally, court personnel and prospective clients will be invited to visit a new website, being developed as both a Registry and also to enhance the credibility and stature of the Nationally Certified Custody Evaluator™ (NCCE). The Academy Register site is being developed NOW. Click on the name above to visit.

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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE FRYE STANDARD, THE FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE, AND THE DAUBERT CRITERIA WHEN YOU GO TO COURT THE ADMISSABILITY OF EXPERT TESTIMONY, INCLUDING TESTIMONY ON SCIENCE, BY MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Barry Bricklin, Ph.D. and Gail Elliot, Ph.D. Please Note: Any mental health professional who testifies in court will find helpful pointers in this paper. But it is also important that you, the mental health professional, request that your attorney read it. Many of the action steps required to make your testimony more effective will need to be initiated by your attorney. Abstract: Following a discussion of the Frye Standard, the relevant Federal Rules of Evidence, the Daubert opinion and dicta, as well as expert testimony by mental health professionals, this paper specifically addresses how The Perception-of-Relationships Test (PORT) and Bricklin Perceptual Scales (BPS) meet the criteria for admissibility of scientific evidence by demonstrating the following: Both tests are testable and have been tested, with a combined database of 3,880 subjects. The tests have been published and peer-reviewed. They have a known error rate, and the predictive accuracy of the tests ranges between 88 and 92 percent agreement between test-based assertions and a wide range of validating criteria. A study found the tests to be the most widely used custody tests for children in the country, indicating that they have found general acceptance. Many test manual updates plus current revisions of the manuals have provided test users with information to maximize reliability and validity of the tests. CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE 21 PAGE ARTICLE

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