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Upcoming Events
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MIPA ROUNDTABLE LUNCHEONS
Andiamo Italia West Restaurant (Lower Level)
6676 Telegraph Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48025
Telephone: 248-865-9300
Thursday February 25, 2010 at 12:00 noon
CULTURE AT THE CORE
OF OUR DIVORCE PROCESS
How does culture
affect the way our clients and patients behave during
the divorce process? How does it affect the
practitioners and the decision-‐makers interacting with
them? Judge Charlene Elder of the Family Division of the
Wayne County Circuit Court and Ellen Yashinsky Chute,
Chief Community Outreach Officer of Jewish Family
Services and adjunct professor at University of Michigan
will share their insights into these important
questions.
Luncheon and
speakers: $26.
As always, guests of
MIPA members are welcome to attend this presentation for
a nominal $5 additional charge. |
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MIPA Members:
Download a mail-in
form to register for this event (in PDF format)
 (Download Adobe reader)
Thursday April 22, 2010 at 12:00 noon
Pamela Ludolph, Ph.D.,
will speak on The Implications of Attachment
Theory for Family Law
More
information to follow closer to the event date
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February
22, 2007
Roundtable-
ADOLESCENTS AND
PARENTING TIME
Arthur
Robin, Ph.D.
Dr. Arthur Robin is a Professor of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at
Wayne State University and the Chief of
Psychology at Children’s Hospital of
Michigan. Using his behavioral family
systems approach to assessing and treating
parent-adolescent conflict, Dr. Robin will
provide practical advice on how mental
health and legal professionals can help
teenagers maintain a positive relationship
with both parents during and following a
divorce.
Specifically, he will consider: (1) common
negative communication patterns and how to
correct them, (2) problems of taking sides,
putting the teenager in the middle, and
teenagers strongly aligning with one parent
to the point where they won’t see the other
parent, (3) methods for helping parents
resolve conflicts with teenagers , and (4)
unreasonable belief systems that interfere
with good adjustment of teenagers to a
divorce.
As always, guests of MIPA members are
welcome to attend this Roundtable for a
modest $5 additional charge.
MIPA Members:
Download
a mail-in form to sign-up for this
Roundtable
(when
available)
(The form is in Adobe pdf format.
Download Adobe reader)
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April 26, 2007 Roundtable
EVIDENCE
Judge David
Lawson of the Federal District Court
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ober 19, 2006 Roundtable -
PROPER CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF CUSTODY
featuring Judge Martha Anderson of the
Oakland County Circuit Court, Family
Division, and Referee Libby Blanchard of
the Oakland County Friend of the Court.
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December 14, 2006
Roundtable
CO-PARENTING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS:
TOUGH CASES-MAJOR CHALLENGES
featuring
Alison Willett, Ph.D., R.N. and Judith Margerum, Ph.D.
Children with special needs present stresses
that reverberate
throughout a family. The developmental
disabilities, mental and emotional
disorders and physical handicaps of children
can complicate the
already difficult process of the separation
and divorce of parents. Co-parenting
these children in an atmosphere of conflict
presents challenges
for parents as well as the legal and mental
health professionals
who assist these families.
Alison Willett, Ph.D, R.N. and Judith
Margerum, Ph.D., psychologists in private
practice specializing in families and children, addressed the demanding issues that
arise when parents
must find a way to co-parent their children
with special needs while
estranged from one another.
Specific attention was paid, both in the
presentation and subsequent discussion, to the
role of evaluators and
parenting coordinators, and the legal issues which
should be addressed in
divorce judgments when children have special needs.
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