CHILDREN RESISTING CONTACT POST-SEPARATION: CONTROVERSIES, CONSENSUS, ASSESSMENT & INTERVENTION
3.5 Days Small Group Virtual Training
November 13 (4-7pm), 20, & 27, & December 11, 2026 (9a.m. – 5p.m.)
Barbara Fidler, Ph.D., C.Psych, Acc.FM & Shely Polak, R.S.W., Ph.D., Acc.FM
Guest Speaker: Linda Popielarczyk, R.S.W. Acc.FM.
This small group interactive training opportunity (Zoom “meeting” format) is suitable for therapists, parenting plan evaluators, mediators, parenting coordinators & child protection workers. Lawyers will benefit from the first day and a half:
- controversy, consensus, and current landscape
- mitigating cognitive biases
- multi-causal vs single causal model for understanding parent-child contact problems
- differentiated spectrum of parent-child contact problems - affinities, alignments, justified rejection (realistic estrangement), alienation & hybrid cases
- research: impact of alienation & intervention outcomes
- clinical screening and intake using multi-factor assessment model
- differentiated clinical & trauma-informed interventions for mild & moderate cases
- legal & clinical remedies for the most severe cases: custody reversal & “say goodbye for now”
- role of the court: early intervention and case management
- nuts & bolts of family systems-based interventions (family reunification therapy) for mild & some moderate cases, including initial query/referral management, clinical screening/intake assessment protocols and tools, suitability analysis steps, informed consent process/agreements, court orders for therapy, establishing & measuring goal attainment, and psycho-educational tools & clinical interventions
Materials: power point handout; seminal articles; sample forms (intake, informed consent), sample court orders; assessment tools (decision trees for screening/intake and suitability analysis), and intervention tool kit including parent education handouts, media links, and much more!
SPACE IS CAPPED — Contact [email protected] if interested.
Registration Fee: $1,500.00 + $195.00 (HST) = $1,695.00 (CAD) (e-transfer/cheque)
(NOTE: taxes vary by CND province & do not apply for US registrants)