Determine the most appropriate third-party intervention to transform the conflic
ID: 3501076 • Letter: D
Question
Determine the most appropriate third-party intervention to transform the conflict and answer the following questions for your selected conflict.
1. What form of intervention would you use to transform this case? In your answer, be sure to provide a rationale for your choice and state the advantages and disadvantages of using this form of intervention.
2. Based on the parties involved, who is in the best position to make a difference in the conflict as you understand it? Why?
Case:
Child Custody Dispute Tracy and John had been married eight years and had two children together, Sarah, age six, and Matt, age 4. Tracy was attending law school in Tacoma and both children were enrolled in preschool there. John worked for the state in Olympia. The family lived in Tacoma. John and Tracy seemed like the idyllic parents of an idyllic family. Then Tracy left John for one of her law school professors and argued for custody of their two children. In addition to the shock of the pending divorce, and the potential loss of his children, John was in shock that the professor Tracy left him for was a woman.
Other Relevant Information
During the marriage, Tracy was the primary child care provider.
Tracy says that John was so busy with his work that he did not pay much attention to the children and their needs.
John is a very proud man and feels his masculinity threatened as his wife leaves him for another woman.
The children are confused by the breakup of their family.
John does not want the children to be exposed to the lesbian relationship of their mother. He believes that it is a passing phase and that although he and Tracy are not likely to reunite, the relationship Tracy has with Katie will not last.
John asserts that he wants full custody of the children and that Tracy can only have visitation rights separate from Katie.
Tracy asserts that she should have custody of the children because she has cared for them all along—her relational status has nothing to do with the raising of her children.
Although she does not speak highly of John to other adults, she is not willing to disparage him in front of the children. She believes that the children should have continued contact with him because he is their father.
Sarah and Matt have not expressed a preference of parent to their child care providers and seem to be handling the break- up of their parents as well as could be expected.
Explanation / Answer
1. The intervention techniques that would help resort the issue and make a clearer and better decision for the.childrem would be to weigh the pros and cons of both the parties involved, that is, see which parental figure would be the most beneficial for the growth and development of the concerned children.
The disadvantage of this scale method is that it can overlook the falsity of facts and can base it entirely on word of mouth.
2. In my opinion, Tracy, despite her sexual preference, would be better to make a difference as she has been the primary caretaker, and according to the psychological theories of attachment, she is the predominant object of attachment, the absence of whom, would be far more damaging to the.childrem, emotionally.
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