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Dr. Sullivan will join some of the leading professionals in the child custody field for this first collaboration between the American Association of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). This will be a specialized conference for advanced professionals. Please see the full program below:
AFCC Philly Program
Drs. Barbara Fidler, Nicholas Bala and Michael Saini provide 10 helpful tips for handling cases where allegations of alienation are present. These are tough situations.
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10 tips on Alienation – AFCC
Please see the attached report from a project completed by members of the Arizona Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. It has excellent suggestions for custody orders/parenting plans and other online resources to support functional coparenting in high conflict post-separation cases. A great resource for parents and professionals.
2011 AzAFCC SUMMIT PROJECT
Dr. Sullivan has co-chaired a task force commissioned by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts to develop practice guidelines for Court-Involved therapy. The 10 member, multi-disciplinary (judges, attorneys, mental health profesisonals) across the United States and Canada, has completed it’s 2-year project and is putting a 30-page set of guidelines out for comment.
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These are the materials from the workshop on this topic that Dr. Sullivan will present in Sedona to the AFCC-Arizona annual conference. Much of the material is based on the work of a national AFCC task force developing guidelines for Court-involved therapy. They include (1) ten tips for court involved therapists and (2) a [...]
Join the Califormia chapter for it’s annual conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in Santa Monica. There are institutes, workshops and plenary sessions on timely topics in family law for evaluators, parenting coordinators and therapists who work in the family court system. Dr. Sullivan will be doing a workshop on the family [...]
The Canadian News program W5 (the equivalent of the 20/20 news program in the states) did a segment entitled: W5 Investigates: Children on the Front Lines of Divorce. This compelling segment interviews 3 families impacted by high conflict divorce. The second part of the segment highlights a family who attended the 2008 Breaking Barriers Family [...]
Dr. Sullivan will be conducting the second year of a 5-day camp for families where a child has rejected a parent and an intensive intervention to reconnect the child with their parent is desired. The family systems intervention requires the participation of both parents and child(ren) and provides a combination of psychoeducation, intervention, and an [...]
Dr. Sullivan will be co-presenting a full day institute on the Washington, D.C. Parenting Coordination project sponsored by the American Psychological Association and two workshops on the pilot project for divorced families where a child has rejected a parent and is no longer having contact. This project, called Overcoming Barriers was held last summer in [...]
Three experts in the field of high conflict divorce designed and carried out a multi-day camp program for severely alienated children and their coparents in Vermont July, 2008. Psychologists Robin Deutsch, current president of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Matthew Sullivan, a national expert in working with child alienation and Peggie Ward an [...]
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