What does Therapeutic Supervised Visitation entail?

Therapeutic Supervised Visitation is parent and child contact overseen by a clinical practitioner who is trained both in supervised visitation practices and clinical work with families. The primary focus is on establishing, maintaining, improving, or healing the parent/child relationship.  Interventions are trauma informed and designed to address specific clinical needs. This level of supervised visitation, Therapeutic Supervision, may be court ordered or agreed to voluntarily, and in writing, by participants. 

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TSV is called for when there are significant concerns about the child's emotional and psychological well-being during visits with the non-custodial parent. Some situations which might necessitate this are: high conflict divorce or separation, history of abuse or neglect, parental substance abuse, mental health concerns for child or parent, rebuilding relationships, potentially due to lengthy estrangement, or due to court orders.

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A licensed professional therapist with knowledge and training around working with children and caregivers who have been apart and training on visit supervision. This service is sometimes offered through agencies, but it more often offered by individual therapist practices. A therapist trained in TBRI is highly recommended. The therapist will discuss what reporting and documentation will be recorded and available for each visit. For therapeutic purposes, confidentiality may be maintained for specifics around visits and updates may be

provided only around adherence to treatment plan goals or other limited information.

In this setting, visitation structure, activities, and discussions may be completely directed by clinician, depending on treatment plan goals.

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All parties should have individual therapeutic support available. Children should have established individual therapists throughout duration of TSV. ROI’s need to be signed by all parties for TSV supervisor to be able to coordinate with individual therapists of children.

Individual intake sessions need to occur with all sets of caregivers and likely children, depending on age. Copies of all most recent court orders or support plans must be provided to clinician.

All parties are aware of and agree to treatment plan goals as appropriate. In most circumstances, treatment plans are made available to individual therapists for children and non-custodial parent.

Caregivers should be prepared that the process of coordinating correct support for this process can take 2 months or more before a child and their parent are in the visit space together.

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