DATE:
   Friday, September 16, 2011 (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)

LOCATION:
    Unity Center, Hamilton Field, 600 Palm Drive, Novato, CA 94949.
        Directions provided to registrants by email.
            (17-20 miles north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge)

FEE:     $250 (Early Registration: $200 if by 8/5/2011; $225 if by 8/19/2011)

CE CREDITS:    MCLE & BBS (6.0 hours); MCEP (6.5 hours to be submitted for review to MCEPAA for approval, Provider #NOR045)

DESCRIPTION:
Children’s refusal to have contact with a parent and the desire of a parent to relocate with a child away from the other parent present two complex and troubling situations for post-separation families, family courts, and professionals. Learn current research about both topics, newer clinical and educational interventions for alienation, and critical psychological and developmental considerations in relocation cases including age appropriate parenting plans.

About the Instructor:

Dr. Joan Kelly, a research, forensic, and clinical psychologist, was Director of the Northern California Mediation Center for 19 years. Her research, writing, and practice has focused on children’s adjustment to divorce, custody and access issues, using child development research in parenting plans, divorce mediation, and Parenting Coordination. She has published more than 90 articles and chapters, and a classic book, Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce. Joan is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, has received the Distinguished Mediator Award from the Academy of Family Mediators, the Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research and the Meyer Elkin Awards from the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She is a frequent presenter and speaker in the United States, Canada, and abroad.