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Episodes of intense conflict are common during these therapy sessions and often result in coparents disengaging from the therapist while they engage in escalating conflict with each other, potentially disrupting their progress in therapy. The purpose of this study was to identify how therapists successfully re\u2010engage clients in the session. To understand this process, 24 disengagement events (12 successful and 12 unsuccessful) from 13 cases were analyzed using a task analytic approach. The sample included coparent dyads referred by the judicial system to a high\u2010conflict coparenting therapy program. Task analysis was used to create a model of how re\u2010engagement unfolds in treatment. The empirical model that resulted has five phases: (1) disengagement from the therapeutic process, (2) disruption of the conflict, (3) de\u2010escalating the most escalated coparent, (4) de\u2010escalating the other coparent, and (5) therapist buffered re\u2010engagement. Successful episodes of re\u2010engagement tended to have therapists who remained active throughout the conflict episode, used structuring interventions aimed at disrupting and then regulating the most escalated partner, blocked attempts to re\u2010engage in conflict, and then repeated this process with the less escalated partner. 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