PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
How parents can promote children’s resilience after divorce
A leading expert in parent education post-divorce weighs in about how parents can promote emotional resilience in children during and after this transition. Please click on the link for 10 tips for parents children's resilience after...
read moreResources for Developing Parenting Skills
Here are some good resources to help parents develop their parenting skills: Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently--Why It Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage, by Kyle Pruett MD and Marsha Pruett PhD Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as...
read moreOvercoming Barriers Family Camp Featured in Canadian News Documentary on Parental Alienation
The Canadian News program W5 (the equivalent of the 20/20 news program in the states) did a segment entitled: W5 Investigates: Children on the Front Lines of Divorce. This compelling segment interviews 3 families impacted by high conflict divorce. The second part of...
read moreTips for high conflict coparents
The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts provides us with tips for coparents who continue to be in high conflict post-divorce. Please download the attached Tips for high conflict parents
read moreTips for Coparents
The AFCC has provided 10 tips for coparents to consider as they establish a shared parenting arrangement post-divorce. Please download this file Tips for...
read moreParenting Styles website: Support for Parents
The website www.parentingstyles.co.uk is a wonderful resource for parents. Parenting is a skill that is developed through knowledge and practice, and websites, such as this one is a user friendly way to tap into experts responses to questions parents have about nearly...
read moreOvercoming Barriers Camp July 20-25, 2009
Dr. Sullivan will be conducting the second year of a 5-day camp for families where a child has rejected a parent and an intensive intervention to reconnect the child with their parent is desired. The family systems intervention requires the participation of both...
read moreUp to parents – new website for coparents and professionals who work with coparents
Take a look at this website. It's an excellent resource for coparents and professionals who work with coparents. Incredible materials to assist in the divorce transitions. This professionals from Indiana (Charlie Asher) have put a tremedous amount of time and...
read moreParallel Parenting Plans
For high conflict coparents, it is essential to construct parenting plans/custody orders that support a parallel parenting model. This disengages coparents, and provides the structure that they need to implement custody orders with minimal interaction. This document...
read moreParenting Plan Essentials
This outline provides essential elements to guide the construction of parenting plans:...
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