Matthew Sullivan, PhD (Clinical Psychologist): Parent Coordination, Coparent Counseling, Mediation » Child Alienation

AFCC Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy: Review and Comment

sullydoc — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:31:09 +0000

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.

Please go to the AFCC members website: afccnet.org (YOU MUST JOIN AFCC, WHICH YOU SHOULD FOR MULTIPLE REASONS) and the membership page will direct you to how to review and comment.

You can download the guidelines by clicking on this link. Comments can be directed to the following email address: comments@lyngreenbergphd.com

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If you have trouble with these instructions, Email me at Sullydoc@aol.com and I’ll send you the document and information on commenting.

Ethical and professional practice issues in Court-involved therapy – Sedona, Arizona, February 7, 2010

sullydoc — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:43:16 +0000

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 sample service agreement to provide this service and (3) a sample court order to provide reunification treatment services

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PARENT-CHILD TREATMENT SERVICE AGREEMENT

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California AFCC conference 2/14-17/2010, Santa Monica

sullydoc — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:43:09 +0000

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 camp in Vermont for high conflict divorced families where a child has rejected a parent. Here is the brochure for the conference. Sign up!

Go to the AFCC-California website to download the conference brochure.

www.afcc-ca.org

Overcoming Barriers Family Camp Featured in Canadian News Documentary on Parental Alienation

sullydoc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:29:20 +0000

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 Camp. Presenting with allegations of sexual molest by the mother, alienation by the father, and having repeated Court involvement leading to only supervised contact between the father and children, the camp was a transformative experience, resulting in a functional, shared custody arrangement. Please see other posts on this website (in the child alienation category) for a full description of the camp program.

The link to the Canadian Television Network’s W5 documentary is as follows:

www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091106/w5_divorce_091107/20091107?hub=Canada

Overcoming Barriers camp is accepting inquiries for the camp that will take place July 2010, Please contact Dr. Sullivan at sullydoc@aol.com for further information.

Overcoming Barriers Camp July 20-25, 2009

sullydoc — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:56:57 +0000

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 enjoyable family camp in rural Vermont. National experts in this type of situation, Dr. Robin Deutsch and Dr. Peggie Ward join Dr. Sullivan as the clinical team.

Clink on this link for information about last year’s camp and a brochure for this year’s camp

Overcoming Barriers 2009 camp brochure

Overcoming Barriers camp, 2008

Upcoming Presentations by Dr. Sullivan

sullydoc — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:46:12 +0000

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 Vermont and is planned again for this July.

Click on this link to the AFCC annual conference brochure May 27-30, 2009
AFCC annual conference brochure, New Orleans

Click on this link to the Overcoming Barriers camp brochure

Overcoming barriers camp, Vermont, July 20-25, 2009

Breaking Barriers Family Camp for Severe Child Alienation

sullydoc — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:33:28 +0000

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 alienation expert from Massachusettes conducte the program. Five families from across the county participated, most court-ordered as a intervention in their severe cases. The results of this highly innovative and successful pilot program will be available in a variety of forums in the months to come! Stay tuned

Alienated Children: Legal & Psychological Management of Cases

sullydoc — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:07:28 +0000

This article written with Joan Kelly, is part of a series of articles in the Family Court Review’s July 2001 volume done by the Northern California working group on Child Alienation. Janet Johnston, Joan Kelly, Nancy Olesen, Marjorie Gans Walters, Steve Friedlander, John Sikorski and Myself collaborated on writing these articles which reconceptualized Richard Gardner’s “Parental Alienation Syndrome” concept, providing a new, systemic conceptualization, assessment and interventions for this phenomenon. This volume continues to be one of the most referred to in the history of the Family Court Review.

Please download the full article, Legal and Psychological Management of Cases with an Alienated Child in PDF format. I hope you will leave your thoughts in the Comments.

Legal and Psychological Management of Cases with an Alienated Child
Matthew Sullivan and Joan B. Kelly
Family Court Review
Vol.39 No.3, July 2001 pp.299-315