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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.
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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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American Psychological Association Powerpoints

Attached are the powerpoints from the all day symposium on parenting coordination and the workshop Dr. Sullivan did at the American Psychological Association in Boston in August of 2008.
APA morning presentation
APA Risk Management presentation
APA Parenting Coordination Presentation

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Parenting Coordination: Journal of Child Custody

Volume 5 numbers 1/2 of the Journal of Child Custody, was published in July of 2008  (go to customerservice@taylorandfrancis.com to get the Journal from the publisher). Dr. Sullivan is the Guest Editor for this special issue, which is the first ever volume dedicated to this emerging role. There are 7 articles, covering the conceptual framework [...]

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Consultation in Child Custody Cases

Dr. Sullivan has written a chapter in a book that will be published in the next couple of months by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. The book is entitled, Innovations in Family Law, and the chapter written by Dr. Sullivan and colleague, Elena Hobbs-Minor, is entitled, “Mental Health Consultation in Child Custody Cases” [...]

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