NCJ Number
191074
Date Published
2001
Length
415 pages
Annotation
This is a record of presentations and discussions at the 38th Annual Conference of the Association of Family, Court and Community Professionals, May 9-12, 2001.
Abstract
This conference highlighted Conflict Resolution, Children, and the Courts. The conference included more than 25 workshops, with papers, presentations, and discussions concerning: (1) Power Imbalance in Child Protection Mediation; (2) Training Guardians Ad Litem; (3) Representing the Unreasonable Client; (4) Child Focused Mediation; (5) Building a Model Family Court; (6) Restoring Relationships Between Alienated Children and Their Parents; (7) Representing Children in High Conflict Families; (8) Mediating Stepfamily Issues; (9) Judicial Dispute Resolution; (10) Assessing Sexual and Physical Abuse; (11) Writing for the Family Court Review; (12) Empirical Advances in Child Custody Evaluations; (13) Early Intervention Using an Interdisciplinary Special Masters Team; (14) Impact of Romantic Relationships in Post-Divorce Families; (15) Screening for Domestic Abuse and Other Impairments to Mediation; (16) Parental Access and Visitation Programs; (17) Impact of Religious Issues in Custody Disputes; (18) On-the-Spot Mediation in Family Court; (19) Mediation and the Best Interests of the Child; (20) Child's Voice in Relocation Disputes; (21) Evaluating Psychological and Chemical Dependency Reports; (22) New Applications for Family Group Conferencing; (23) Techniques for Successfully Interviewing Children; (24) Negotiation and Communication Skills for Lawyers; (25) Supervised Visitation; and (26) Cooperative Lawyering and Collaborative Law. Notes, tables, references