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Advanced Special Master Training, Sacramento, CA October 22, 2010

Join Dr. Sullivan and Sacramento family Law attorney Mike Jonsson for a one-day training on Special Master work for attorneys and mental health professionals. Mark your calendar, I will post the specifics when I have the brochure.

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Professional Consultation Group with Dr. Sullivan

I am starting a consultation group, offering monthly meetings to provide consultation on cases and topics dealing with high conflict custody situations, coparenting work, mediation, Parenting Coordination. It will take place in my office in Palo Alto
If you are interested, email me at  sullydoc@aol.com.

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How parents can promote children’s resilience after divorce

A leading expert in parent education post-divorce weighs in about how parents can promote emotional resilience in children during and after this transition.  Please click on the link for 10 tips for parents
children’s resilience after divorce

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AFCC Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy: Review and Comment

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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Resources for Developing Parenting Skills

Here are some good resources to help parents develop their parenting skills:
Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently–Why It Helps Your Kids and Can
Strengthen Your Marriage, by Kyle Pruett MD and Marsha Pruett PhD
Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child, by Kyle Pruett
Parenting Wisely. [...]

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Parenting Coordination Intensive one-day training February 5, 2010 Sedona, Arizona

Dr. Sullivan will be doing a full day institute at the Annual conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Arizona Chapter. It will take place on February 5th, 2010 in Sedona Arizona. The title of the presentation is “INTENSIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR HIGH CONFLICT COPARENTS”.  Please see the brochure for how to register for [...]

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Tips for high conflict coparents

The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts provides us with tips for coparents who continue to be in high conflict post-divorce.
Please download the attached
Tips for high conflict parents

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Tips for Coparents

The AFCC has provided 10 tips for coparents to consider as they establish a shared parenting arrangement post-divorce.
Please download this file
Tips for coparents

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Parenting Styles website: Support for Parents

The website www.parentingstyles.co.uk is a wonderful resource for parents. Parenting is a skill that is developed through knowledge and practice, and websites, such as this one is a user friendly way to tap into experts responses to questions parents have about nearly any subject. I found the searches on parenting after divorce useful for parents [...]

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Parenting Coordination Continuing Education Workshop at APA’s annual convention on August 5, 2009 in Toronto

The sign up for a full day continuing education workshop on Parenting Coordination, at the APA annual convention in August in Toronto, begins today, April 15th. Go the the APA website to the convention site and to the CE link and you can enroll. Several experts in this area will be joining Dr. Sullivan in [...]

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