Presented By
Stacey White Kinney, LMFT
Credits
2 EMDRIA Credits
Learning Format
Online
Children who resist contact with a parent present unique problems for clinicians, attorneys, and the family court system. These children and their parents are often experiencing trauma from the divorce and re-experiencing trauma incidents associated with one or both parents which impedes the child’s ability to participate in a relationship with their parent.
This online course is for child custody evaluators (CCEs), and other court involved therapists (CITs), working with high conflict divorce cases. Clinicians will learn to understand how EMDR can be used with this difficult population to help these families move toward reunification. The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, created by Francine Shapiro, provides a structured treatment that can be used to efficiently process the divorce trauma.
This online course provides an overview of the AIP model and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. The workshop will illustrate how these interventions can be used in conjunction with an existing case plan. In addition, a review of guidelines and research of the effectiveness of EMDR in trauma treatment, as well as practical applications of EMDR with high conflict divorce families will be explored. Further, the workshop will present treatment strategies and recommendations for use in case planning and recommendations to help these children and their parents move past the trauma and rebalance their relationships. Myths and misconceptions about EMDR, as well as forensic issues regarding EMDR, treatment, protocol, and court testimony will be addressed.