Matthew Sullivan, PhD (Clinical Psychologist): Parent Coordination, Coparent Counseling, Mediation » Coparenting After Divorce

Relocation tips for parents, attorneys and Custody evaluators

sullydoc — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:46:07 +0000

Dr. Phil Stahl has words of wisdom for relocation issues when parents share custody. Please click on the link to read.

RELOCATION.AFCC.TIPS

10 top things divorced parents can do to protect their children from conflict

sullydoc — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:10:15 +0000

Conflict between parents who share custody can have a damaging impact on their functioning and long-term healthy development. Attached below are some thoughts about what divorced parents can do to protect their children from conflict. It comes from the AFCC website (afccnet.org), which has incredible resources like this.

kids protection from conflict advice

AAML-AFCC Joint Conference September 15-17, Philadelphia

sullydoc — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:04:51 +0000

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

10 tips for Family Court Professionals involved in alienation or alleged alienation cases

sullydoc — Tue, 17 May 2011 21:42:29 +0000

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.

Click on the link

10 tips on Alienation – AFCC

Parenting Coordination: Top Ten Toughest Challenges

sullydoc — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:29:44 +0000

Drs. Matthew Sullivan and Robin Deutsch, and attorney-mediator Christie Coates put their experience together to provide Association of Family and Conciliation Courts member the ten toughest challenges that those who practice parenting coordination will encounter. See them in the attachment below:

PC- top ten toughest challenges

Parenting Communication Resources in High Conflict Cases

sullydoc — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:48:13 +0000

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

AFCC approves Practice Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy

sullydoc — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:59:43 +0000

Just published!! Association of Family and Conciliation Court’s two year task force just completed the first comprehensive practice guidelines for therapists who work with Court-involved clients. Issues such as informed consent for such therapy, dealing with requests to provide treatment information to the Court (eg. handling a subpeona), prohibitions against engaging in multiple roles, providing opinions beyond the scope of therapy, etc. are all addressed in the guidelines. Dr. Sullivan was the co-chair of the task force.

Below, you can download the guidelines, and I have provided additional links to the guidelines and sample service agreements for Court-Involved therapy.

Link to the task force page that shows the document plus the extras:http://www.afccnet.org/about/Court_Involved_therapist_task_force.asp

Direct link to the guidelines: http://www.afccnet.org/pdfs/Guidelines%20for%20Court%20Involved%20Therapy%20AFCC.pdf

Guidelines_for_Court_Involved_Therapy_Final_2010_12_16

Promised materials from Baltimore training

sullydoc — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:59:05 +0000

Here is the set of Power point slides about using developmental research about children in PC work, Jan Johnston’s typology of children’s adjustment to High Conflict Divorce and the pros and cons of involving children directly in the PC process

PC Work and Children

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

sullydoc — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:47:55 +0000

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.

Professional Consultation Group with Dr. Sullivan

sullydoc — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:09:03 +0000

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.