To increase knowledge about a less adversarial alternative to custodial litigation, setting the stage for better cooperation between parents to protect children and provide a less chaotic home environment.

To assess the impact of overwhelming long-term traumatic stress to military families.

To increase knowledge about a technique to reduce stress by considering the benefits of acquiring more information and/or more support.

To identify and practice positive communication skills to enhance parenting.

To help one recognize the specific triggers of their PTSD, and their responses to those triggers.

To increase knowledge about a paradoxical intentionality technique in which a client or family with rigid behavioral patterns is asked to continue, or even exaggerate, an undesired behavior as a way to regain a sense of control, thereby leading to gradual extinction.

To increase knowledge about a paradoxical intentionality technique to use when clients are exhibiting mindless behavior patterns that have been resistant to change. The therapist suggests that the client only pretend to have the symptomatic behavior, creating a playful, constructive tone for growth and change.

Increase recognition of symptoms and warnings signs of relapsing behavior, and to increase problem-solving in relapse prevention.

To increase knowledge about a technique where the child is invited to participate in role-playing and skits in which he reenacts relevant and sometimes painful aspects of his own history, while providing distance from his distress.