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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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AFCC draft guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy

Please see the draft guidelines published by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts  (AFCC) task force on Court-involved therapy. Dr. Sullivan co-chaired this task force that is focused on providing best practices for mental health professionals providing counseling and therapy services to adults, children and families, when the therapy is Court-ordered or becomes Court-involved. [...]

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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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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.
Please go [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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Parenting Coordination: An Introduction

The American Psychological Association Practice Directorate has developed a “webinar”– a web-based training introducting the Parenting Coordination role. Drs. Matt Sullivan, Joan Kelly and Robin Deutsch worked together on the project, which features relevant videotape segments of their presentation at the 2008 APA convention, powerpoint slides, and other web-based  teaching techniques to help you understand [...]

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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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