Dr. Robin Deutsch Workshops

Discounts Available:
Free for Alliant core faculty and students (enter: CSPPSD)

Alliant alumni and adjunct faculty receive a $25 discount for Friday (enter: 1026) and a $50 discount for Saturday (enter: 1027)

 

Evaluations with Allegations of Intimate Partner Violence:
Recommendations for Access, Decision-Making and Treatment

 

Friday, October 26, 2018
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm ~ 4 CE credit hours
Presenter: Robin Deutsch, PhD, ABPP

Alliant International University, San Diego
Green Hall
10455 Pomerado Rd
San Diego, CA 92131

Evaluations that include allegations of Intimate Partner Violence require careful assessment. In addition, the evaluator must develop useful recommendations that consider the presence of violence, as well as the kind, severity and frequency of the violence. Evaluators may offer recommendations that address access, decision-making and treatment. This workshop will review the types of violence and kinds of recommendations including evidence based treatments.

Syllabus/ Time Outline

12:00pm-1:00pm	Participants will identify the impact of intimate partner violence on children and alleged victim, perpetrator, and parenting and co-parenting.
1:00pm-1:20pm	Participants will apply a screening process.
1:20pm-2:20pm	Participants will describe the components of an evaluation of IPV.
2:20pm-2:50pm	Participants will describe possible recommendations for access between parents and children when IPV is alleged.
2:50pm-3:10pm	Participants will describe possible recommendations for decision making when IPV is alleged.
3:10pm-3:45pm	Participants will construct evidence- based recommendations for treatment when IPV is present in a family.
3:45pm-4:00pm	Participants will discuss a process for lifting restrictions on parenting access.

 

Forensic Family Assessment and Treatment:
Legal and Ethical Updates

 

Saturday, October 27, 2018
8:30 am – 4:30 pm ~ 8 CE credit hours
Presenter: Robin Deutsch, PhD, ABPP

Alliant International University, San Diego
Green Hall
10455 Pomerado Rd
San Diego, CA 92131

In this 8-hour workshop, participants will gain skills in evaluating, mediating, and counseling difficult families going through divorce and custody battles. The morning will focus on how mental health personnel can evaluate families and create parenting plans in cases where there is an allegation of mental illness in one of the parents. The afternoon will focus on how mediators and evaluators can adequately assess and intervene in cases where the children refuse or resist contact with one of the parents. 

This 8-hour workshop meets the criteria for the annual required training for custody evaluators and mediators. 

Syllabus/ Time Outline

8:30am-10:00am	Describe characteristics of parents with challenging personalities and identify strategies to manage these clients.
10:00am-10:30am	Identify significant mental health issues that may affect parenting
10:30am-11:00am	Consider a Decision-making process for examining mental health allegations.
11:00am-11:15am	Apply a decision making model for parenting to a case of mental illness.
11:15am-12:00pm	Discuss a process to Step up and modify parenting plans.
12:00pm-1:30pm	Working Lunch: Legislative and Case Updates
1:30pm-2:00pm	Describe components of high conflict parent intervention.
2:00om-2:45pm	Differentiate parent-child contact problems.
2:45pm-3:15pm	Describe trauma-informed model to assess resist-refuse dynamics.
3:15pm-4:00pm	Identify interventions with families when a child is resisting contact with a parent.
4:00pm-4:30pm	Identify strategies to manage cases of resist/refuse dynamics.

 

Robin M. Deutsch, PhD, ABPP, is the Director of the Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law at William James College, and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She practices as a custody evaluator, mediator, parent coordinator, therapist and consultant. Dr. Deutsch lectures widely throughout North America and Europe on Parenting Coordination, parenting and child development and complex issues related to family conflict, including parent alienation, attachment, abuse and neglect and trauma. She has published extensively on issues related to attachment, alienation, co-parenting after divorce, high conflict divorce, parenting plans and parenting coordination. Dr. Deutsch has performed a wide variety of forensic evaluations and testified in juvenile, family, district and federal courts involving divorce and visitation disputes, relocation, domestic violence, adoption, alienation, abuse and neglect. She provides consultation and expert witness services on boundary violations, ethical issues, child and adolescent development, complex custody issues and custody and parenting evaluations. Dr. Deutsch was a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) task force that developed Guidelines for Parenting Coordinators (2011), the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Task Force that developed Guidelines for Parenting Coordinators (2006), and the AFCC Task force that developed Guidelines for Court Involved Therapists (2010). She was the former President of the AFCC (2008-2009) and the former Chair of the APA Ethics Committee (2007).