FAMILY ACCESS – FIGHTING FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
with the gracious support of Steel Partners Foundation
will host the 2021 conference
This virtual three-day conference will focus on the presentation of effective strategies for family courts which must identify parental and grandparental alienation and then deal with it. For understandable reasons, family courts have been challenged by this problem. This conference will present a toolbox for litigants who must turn to the courts for assistance.
This three-day virtual conference will provide continuing education credits for both mental health as well as legal professionals.
Participants will be presented with evidence that:
- Parental alienation is a serious form of child abuse
- Parental alienation is very damaging to children
- Parental alienation can have several lifelong consequences.
This program will present and discuss strategies for:
- Attorneys who represent families that are dealing with parental alienation
- Exposing the alienating parent as the source of the problem
- Effective treatment of alienation
- Mental health professionals who must establish parental alienation in court
- Parents and grandparents who become targets of alienation
International Conference on Helping Courts Understand the Phenomenon of Alienation
Three-Day Conference Agenda
May 14, 2021
7:00 PM-8:00 PM “Anticipating and Defending Against the inevitable Courtroom Attacks on Parental Alienation and your Case” Robert Hoffman, P. L. L. C.
8:00 PM-9:00 PM breakout rooms for open discussion for alienated family members, mental health professionals working in the field of alienation and legal professionals working in the field of alienation
May 15, 2021
8:00 AM-9:15 AM: Mental Health Panel Presentation: “Pearls, Pitfalls, Errors and Landmines of the 5-Factor Model: “Understanding the 5-Factor Model’s Pearls, Pitfall, Errors and Landmines in a way that provides the targeted Parents and/or Grandparents with some tools to manage through the legal process”Moderator: Colleen Murray, Ph.D, LPC Panel Members: Steven Miller, M.D., Caitlin R. Burgess, JD, MA, LMFT
*Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants
9:15AM-10:15 AM: “Helping Courts Understand the Phenomenon of Alienation”, presented by J Michael Bone, Ph.D and Robert A. Evans, Ph.D
10:15 AM-10:30 AM Break10:30 AM-12:00 PM: “Helping Courts Understand the Phenomenon of Alienation” (continued)
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM-3:00 PM: “Helping Courts Understand the Phenomenon of Alienation” (continued)
3:00 PM-3:15 PM Break3:15 PM-3:45 PM: “Helping Courts Understand the Phenomenon of Alienation” (continued)
*Last 30 minutes will be Q&A from participants
3:45 PM-5:00 PM: Legal Panel Presentation: “Battle Scars Earned and Lessons Learned from the Front Lines: Common oversights lawyers, alienated parents/ grandparents and expert witnesses make and how to master these challenges ” “Moderator: Colleen Murray, Ph.D, LPC Panel Members: Ashish S. Joshi, LL.M and Robert Hoffman, P.L.L.C.
*Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants
7:00 PM-8:00 PM: “ Memories: An Indispensable Co-Therapist in Reunification Therapy”, Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW-R
8:00 PM- 9:00 PM breakout rooms for open discussion for alienated family members, mental health professionals working in the field of alienation and legal professionals working in the field of alienation
May 16, 2021
8:00 AM-9:30 AM: “What if the Alienating Parent has a Personality Disorder?”, presented by Steven Miller, M. D.
*Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants
9:30 AM-11:00 AM: “How to Pass a Daubert Hearing Regarding Parental Alienation,” presented by William Bernet, M.D.
*Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants
11:00 AM-11:15AM Break
11:15 AM-12:45 PM : “Parental Alienation American Family Courts: Common Fallacies and Pitfalls,” presented by Ashish S. Joshi, LL.M
*Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants
12:45 PM-1:45 PM Lunch
1:45 PM-3:15 PM: “Pruning the Family Tree: the Plight of Grandparents who are Cut –Off,” presented by Carol Golly, Ph.D, LCSW
*Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants
3:15 PM-3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM-5:00 PM: “The Do’s and Don’ts of Treatment for Parental Alienation,” presented by Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW-R*
Last 15 minutes will be Q&A from participants*The times are Eastern Daylight Times