Learning Objectives

Participants in this training will be able to:

  • Identify four ways that abuse allegations arise during family law cases.
  • Distinguish between reliable and unreliable assessments of allegations.
  • Apply information about how children disclose sexual abuse.
  • Formulate three action steps to utilize when working on cases involving families with substance use concerns.
  • Identify three components of an addiction-sensitive parenting plan.
  • Describe the continuum of parent-child contact problems.
  • Identify differences between decisional forgiveness and emotional forgiveness.
  • Review strategies to increase forgiveness in parent-child contact problem dynamics.
  • Explore the SAFeR approach to child custody decision making in cases involving intimate partner violence.
  • Compare ways that practitioners in various family law roles implement the SAFeR method.
  • Use developmentally appropriate questions in child interviews.
  • Apply a continuum if suggestiveness of questions in child interviews.
  • Ask children about specific topics relevant to family law cases.
  • Distinguish trauma from ordinary, challenging life events.
  • Review strategies for helping clients develop coping skills and build resiliency.