DATES:
   Friday, February 8, 2008 (9:00 am – 4:30 pm) and

   Friday, November 14, 2008 (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)

LOCATION:
    Embassy Suites Hotel, 101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, CA 94903.
            (15 miles north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge)

FEE:     $200 (Early registration: $160 if by 12/28/07 or 10/3/08;
                        $180 if by 1/11/08 or 10/17/08).

CE CREDITS:    MCLE & BBS (6 hours); MCEP (6.5 hours to be submitted)

DESCRIPTION:
Since the rise in the divorce rate in the 1960’s, many practitioners and family courts have embraced access rigid guidelines and untested theory to determine how much time children will spend with each of their parents following separation and divorce. These one-size-fits-all guidelines or embedded views, either formal or informal, have failed to take into account children’s age and developmental stage, the quality of the parenting provided, prior relationships with both parents, and the children’s wishes or input. This seminar presents a research-based approach for considering patterns of children’s living arrangements following separation and divorce.

This seminar is relevant to the work of mediators, custody evaluators, collaborative law practitioners, parent coaches, family lawyers, judges, and therapists who are working in various capacities with separation and divorcing parents.

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 85 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.