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AFCC approves Practice Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy

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 [...]

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Chicago Training June 20-21, 2011 Keeping Parenting Coordinating Cases on Track: Advanced Concepts and Case Management Strategies

Dr. Sullivan will do a 2-day advanced training in Parenting Coordination Practice for the AFCC in Chicago, Illinois on June 20-21.  Please go to the AFCC website (AFCCnet.org) and click on trainings to obtain the brochure for this intensive training.
Below is an outline of the topics addressed in the 2-day training.
Chicago.MJS

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February, 13, 2011, San Francisco, CA Court-Involved Therapy Guidelines: Core Concepts and Practical Application in Changing Times

Dr. Sullivan will co-present with Judge Diana Gould-Saltman, and Dr. Lyn Greenberg, both from Los Angeles at the California Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Annual conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francico.  The workshop will present applications of the AFCC court-involved therapy guidelines, the product of the AFCC task force on Court-inovlved [...]

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Promised materials from Baltimore training

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

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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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