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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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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.
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Tips for high conflict parents

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AFCC regional conference in Reno, Nevada, November 5-7, 2009

Come to Reno for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts regional training conference!  This conference has five “tracks” of specialized presentations and trainings – custody evaluators, judges, parenting coordinators, lawyers and Mediators.
Dr. Sullivan will be doing two workshops, one entitled “parenting coordination in cysberspace” and the other on court-involved therapy, presented with Lyn Greenberg [...]

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Parenting Coordination Conference, Los Angeles, September 12, 2009

Dr. Sullivan will be providing a one-day training for attorneys and mental health professionals on Parenting Coordination in Los Angeles on September 12, 2009. The announcement for the training, which provides an outline for the day is provided in the file below.
Los Angeles PC training announcement

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Powerpoint presentation at American Psychological Association pre-conference institute on Parenting Coordination

Here is the powerpoint from the presentation by Drs. Joan Kelly, Robin Deutsch, Debra Carter, Barbara Fidler, Matthew Sullivan and Roberta Eisen that was provided as a continuing education day-long seminar on the practice of Parenting Coordination in the United Stated and Canada
Parenting Coordination, APA 2009
These are for private use. Do not reproduce these slides [...]

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