Matthew Sullivan, PhD (Clinical Psychologist): Parent Coordination, Coparent Counseling, Mediation

AFCC Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy: Review and Comment

sullydoc — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:31:09 +0000

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 to the AFCC members website: afccnet.org (YOU MUST JOIN AFCC, WHICH YOU SHOULD FOR MULTIPLE REASONS) and the membership page will direct you to how to review and comment.

You can download the guidelines by clicking on this link. Comments can be directed to the following email address: comments@lyngreenbergphd.com

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If you have trouble with these instructions, Email me at Sullydoc@aol.com and I’ll send you the document and information on commenting.

Resources for Developing Parenting Skills

sullydoc — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:14:53 +0000

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. The online one is an interactive parenting education program. Go to this website:

info@familyworksinc.com.

A general book is “Parenting From the Inside Out.”

Amazon.com: Parenting from the Inside Out (9781585422098): Daniel Spiegel …www.amazon.com › …

Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman is still a timely book about this parenting this stage of development.

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

sullydoc — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:43:16 +0000

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 sample service agreement to provide this service and (3) a sample court order to provide reunification treatment services

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PARENT-CHILD TREATMENT SERVICE AGREEMENT

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Mediation training in April

sullydoc — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:14:33 +0000

Gary Friedman, one of the foremost mediators in the country is doing his 30 hour mediation training in Marin in April. Don’t miss this excellent opportunity. Please see this link to his trainings:

www.UnderstandingInConflict.org

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

sullydoc — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:43:09 +0000

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 camp in Vermont for high conflict divorced families where a child has rejected a parent. Here is the brochure for the conference. Sign up!

Go to the AFCC-California website to download the conference brochure.

www.afcc-ca.org

Parenting Coordination Intensive one-day training February 5, 2010 Sedona, Arizona

sullydoc — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:14:48 +0000

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 the institute and the entire conference!

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

sullydoc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:29:20 +0000

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 Camp. Presenting with allegations of sexual molest by the mother, alienation by the father, and having repeated Court involvement leading to only supervised contact between the father and children, the camp was a transformative experience, resulting in a functional, shared custody arrangement. Please see other posts on this website (in the child alienation category) for a full description of the camp program.

The link to the Canadian Television Network’s W5 documentary is as follows:

www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091106/w5_divorce_091107/20091107?hub=Canada

Overcoming Barriers camp is accepting inquiries for the camp that will take place July 2010, Please contact Dr. Sullivan at sullydoc@aol.com for further information.

Parenting Coordination: An Introduction

sullydoc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:26:14 +0000

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 the essentials of this role from your computer.

Please go the the following website to obtain the webinar:

www.practicecentral.org/courses.cfm

If you’re a member of the APA, you’ll get a discount. AND, YOU RECEIVE TWO (2) CONTINUINING EDUCATION UNITS APPROVED BY THE APA!

Tips for high conflict coparents

sullydoc — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:11:03 +0000

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

Tips for Coparents

sullydoc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:12 +0000

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