DATE:
     Friday, June 18, 2010 (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)

LOCATION:

Northern San Rafael, CA

(15 miles north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, exact location TBA)

FEE:     $225.   (Early registration is $175 by 5/7/10; $200 by 5/21/10)

CE CREDITS:    MCLE & BBS (5.75 hours); MCEP (6.25 hours to be submitted)

DESCRIPTION:
Using a developmental and research-based approach for understanding child and adolescent needs following separation and divorce, this seminar will be a guided group evaluation and discussion of effective parenting plans for children of all ages including infants, toddlers, preschoolers, middle- schoolers and teens. Consideration will be given to children’s views, high and low conflict families, minimizing conflict, different forms of shared physical custody, relocation schedules, and how parenting plans can respect the cognitive and emotional capacities of children.

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 B. Kelly, a clinical psychologist, was Director of the Northern California Mediation Center in Marin County, CA. for 19 years. Her research, writing, teaching 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, and the Stanley Cohen Distinguished Research and the Meyer Elkin Awards from the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). She is a frequent presenter and speaker in the United States, Canada, and abroad.