Children Resisting Post-separation Contact: Concepts, Controversies, Assessment & Intervention

This course is suitable for therapists, custody/access assessors, mediators, parenting coordinators, child protection workers and lawyers.

You will learn about:

  • the continuum of parent-child contact problems – affinities, alignments, justified (realistic estrangement), alienation & hybrid cases
    differentiating types & severity levels
  • a research update on the impact of alienation on children, adolescents & young adults
    assessment considerations
  • differentiated legal & clinical remedies for mild, moderate & severe cases
    the role of the court
  • the nuts & bolts of systemic family-based (reintegration) interventions (multi-faceted family therapy) for mild & some moderate cases, including referral management, screening & intake, informed consent process & contracting, psycho-educational tools & clinical interventions, strategies & techniques

Course Materials provided, include: power point handout, comprehensive resources/seminal articles (with some recommended readings provided in advance of training), screening & clinical intake checklists and questionnaires, sample orders, sample Family Therapy Intervention Agreement, intervention tool kit, Parent Education Handout Package & more.

Fees: $850.00 + $110.50 (HST) = $960.50
(includes light continental breakfast and health break snacks)

For more information and registration: Download the PDF

Contact Camilla Graziani at camilla.fidleradmin@bell.net (416) 481-2046