Therapy Interventions for Families Impacted by High Conflict Separation, Divorce and Domestic Violence
This webinar is being provided in partnership with the Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Description
High conflict separated parents (HCSPs) involve parents who are divorced or separated and who are engaging in ongoing, intense, and often adversarial disputes related to various aspects of co-parenting and child-rearing. Court involvement and litigation are routinely indicated in these families, with children caught in the middle of their parents’ disputes. Additionally, many of these families have histories of domestic violence, child abuse and maltreatment and trauma. As such, these cases are almost always highly complex as well as stressful and exhausting for treatment providers. This training will provide clinical practitioners with background and information about HCSP families, common family dynamics that are encountered in therapy, as well as therapeutic intervention strategies for addressing domestic violence, intra-familial abuse and trauma, and parental alienation and estrangement. Dr. Misurell will bring his years of experience and expertise from providing therapeutic interventions for high conflict divorce and court-involved families into this practical presentation.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe ways in which divorce and separation can negatively impact children.
- Outline positive and negative ways of dissolving a marriage.
- Identify and describe high conflict divorce and separation dynamics.
- Describe how patterns of domestic violence contribute to high conflict divorce.
Instructor Bio
Justin R. Misurell, PhD, is a recognized expert on the evaluation and treatment of child and adolescent behavior disorders. He currently serves on the faculty at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Child Study Center, and is the Clinical Director at the Department’s New Jersey Office. Dr. Misurell provides behavior therapy (BT) and cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) for youth struggling with a variety of difficulties including anxiety, depression, ADHD, oppositional behavior, OCD, tics and Tourette’s Disorder, abuse and trauma and family conflict. Additionally, he provides consultation to parents on effective strategies for addressing behavioral disorders in childhood. Furthermore, Dr. Misurell has expertise in providing therapeutic interventions for high conflict divorce and court-involved families. He has given numerous invited presentations and has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on child and adolescent mental health. Lastly, Dr. Misurell has co-authored a book entitled, Game-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse: An Innovative Treatment Approach. He is a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey, and has been credentialed by the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
Dr. Misurell has no conflicts of interest for this program.
Contact Us
For questions, please contact: ce@gsapp.rutgers.edu
Continuing Education Information
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