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.