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Interdisciplinary Professionals Certifiable?????
I've noticed lately - I get to spend way too much time googling Collaborative Practice - a growing trend that troubles me. It seems that more and more professionals, I think I've mostly noticed this among attorneys, have been asserting that they are "Certified" in Collaborative Law / Practice.
My concern is for the long term credibility and integrity of CP. To the best of my knowledge there is no organization that offers a "certification" in CP.
The ABA model rules declare that:
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Interdisciplinary Professionals Growing Your Collaborative Practice Group
From Catherine Conner (whose video interview is at
http://cuttingedgelaw.com/video/catherine-conner-collaborative-community
The Collaborative Council of the Redwood Empire created a manual called "Growing Your Collaborative Practice Group". IACP is now in the process of finalizing a version of the manual, a copy of which will be distributed to each practice group, hopefully in the next month or so. The manual includes an article about starting a group, sample articles of incorporation and bylaws, ideas for committees, descriptions for officers, tips for different activities and more. We hope it will be useful for both new and existing practice groups. If you are already listed with IACP as a group, a copy will be sent to you. If you are forming a group, you can request a copy by contacting Colleen at the IACP office (colleen@collaborativepractice.come) and one will be sent to you when they are available.
The "Coach" in a Collaborative Practice matter should always be a licensed Mental Health Professional
On my CollabLaw listServe, someone recently asked "whether any practice groups have professionals in dual roles such as attorney and coach/child specialist or attorney and financial professional" and some follow up questions. My reply:
There are such 'two-headed' folks throughout the Collaborative Practice community. I'm licensed as an attorney AND as a Mental Health Professional. There are also Attorney/Financials that I know of. There may even be Financial/MHPs, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.
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