How to select the right expert?
Child experts come with many different specialisms depending on, among other things, their professional qualifications and areas of expertise.
They include:
- Direct Child Consultant mediators
- Child Therapists
- Child Psychologists
- Child Coaches
- Systemic Family Therapists, working with parents and children of the family, together and separately
The key is to ensure that they have experience in and understand the role for which they are being instructed, namely to ascertain the childrens’ wishes and feelings so that these can be fed back directly into the mediation process by the expert involved, keeping the decisions being made and actions being taken, child centred and child inclusive.
The child experts must be qualified, trained and comfortable doing this.
Discuss this with your mediator. They will help you make the right decision.