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Session 1 - "Determining and Modifying Child Custody and Access Schedules" helped me:
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Recognize constructive uses of the law to promote health and each parent’s involvement.
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Identify specific opportunities for each parent to seek treatment and engage in healthy participation with their children
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Gain a better understanding of the tools available to assist in these cases and be better prepared in presenting cases.
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Please rate Session #1 Panel's overall:
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Session 2-"Personality Disorders and Mental Health Disorders: Overview of symptom patterns and effects on parenting and coparenting" helped me:
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Identify major personality disorder characteristics and dimensions that specifically influence parenting ability, and related functioning and behavior
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Identify personality disorder-related interpersonal patterns that have a specific negative impact on childhood development
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Point to challenges in identifying and specifying personality disorder traits that relate to conflictual behavior associated with collaborative co-parenting, reliability, and responsibility
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Please rate Dr. Elsa Ronningstam in Session 2 (5=Excellent,1=Poor)
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Session 3-Primer on Working effectively with clients with personality disorders for family law professionals. This Session helped me:
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Develop a better understanding of differentiating between personality styles and actual personality disorders which cause additional challenges for professionals.
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Enhance my skills and strategies when working with litigants with personality disorders
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Improve my ability to recognize “warning signs” if reacting in unskilled manner and how to shift to more effective approach.
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Session 3 - Please rate Dr. Elsa Ronningstam in Session 3 (5=Excellent, 1=Poor)
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Maintained my interest
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Was responsive to questions, comments and opinions
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Session 3 -Please rate Dr. John Lefkowits in Session 3 (5=Excellent 1=Poor)
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Session 4 - What Do Judges Want to Hear? This Panel Discussion helped me::
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Differentiate the types of mental health / personality disorder information that are most relevant to a judge’s “best interests” analysis.
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Evaluate the reliability and weight of competing information sources when a parent’s mental health is implicated.
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Formulate judicial questions and bench-level findings that meaningfully connect mental health evidence to parenting capacity, child safety, and custody/visitation decisions
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Session 4 -Please rate the Panel's overall (5=Excellent,1=Poor, )
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Was responsive to questions, comments and opinions
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Session 5 - How Should Attorneys Present Mental Health Information to the Court? This Session will allow me to:
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Select, organize, and frame mental health evidence in a way that is persuasive, legally admissible, and aligned with the judge’s decision-making needs
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Critically evaluate expert reports and testimony to ensure that mental health testimony is credible and appropriately tied to parenting/custody issues.
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Advocate for limited confidentiality waivers and tailored disclosure orders that balance a parent’s privacy rights with the court’s need for information and propose redaction or in-camera procedures when full disclosure is inappropriate.
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Session 5 -Please rate the Panel's overall (5=Excellent,1=Poor, )
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Was responsive to questions, comments and opinions
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Session 6 - Best Use of Mental Health Professionals in Family Law Matters. This Session will permit me to:
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Describe and distinguish the roles mental health consultants can play
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Recognize limitations in testimony that can be from a therapist vs role as a custody evaluator, vs expert witness for content or specialist in a specific field of mental health
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Session 6 -Please rate the Dr. Killeen's overall: (5=Excellent,1=Poor)
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Session 7 - Interventions in Family Court. (Panel). This Session helped me:
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Differentiate among key family court interventions and identify the circumstances under which each is most appropriate.
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Formulate clear and concrete intervention requests that include measurable goals and outcome indicators, enabling judges and practitioners to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in resolving custody disputes and promoting child well-being
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Apply assessment and intervention strategies to case study scenarios by analyzing presenting issues, selecting the most suitable intervention, and articulating expected outcomes that balance parental rights with the best interests of the child.
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Session 7 -Please rate the Panel's overall: (5=Excellent,1=Poor )
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Was responsive to questions, comments and opinions
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Overall the Conference
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Was interactive and enhanced my learning
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Provided knowledge I will be able to use in my work
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