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Workshops
Saturday 18 August 2018
Workshop 10 What to do with Parental Hatred?
Dr Bruce Smyth
Associate Professor of Family Studies at the Centre for Social Research & Methods, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Chair: Ms Lilia Szarski
Room: Ballroom A 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm
At its core, entrenched parental hatred stems from a deep-seated negative attachment to a former partner. It is demonstrated by a relentless and unforgiving negativity involving (a) a global assessment of the former partner as bad or evil and deserving of no respect as a person or a parent; (b) persistent bitter feelings, mistrust, accusatory thought, and destructive impulses; (c) a steadfast inability to self-re ect, see other perspectives or change, coupled with re-directing (‘projecting’) internal con icts away from self and onto another; and (d) a willingness to incur harm to oneself and one’s children in the service of harming or even destroying the other parent.
Workshop 11 Mental Health Treatment Reports as Evidence in Family Court proceedings.
Room: Ballroom B Dr Don Tustin 1.30 pm – 2.15 pm
Clinical Psychologist, Adelaide, South Australia
Chair: Ms Fiona Darroch
In 2006 Medicare introduced a Better Access program to improve availability of psychological therapy, and the Family Law Act was amended to encourage shared care parenting. The combined effect of these changes is that private psychologists who provide therapy for separated families are asked to provide treatment reports when disputes are taken to the family law process. Many psychologists who have skills in providing therapy are poorly informed about standards and procedures that apply in family law and child protection.
The workshop aims to improve the ability of treating psychologists to provide treatment reports about parenting topics that are useful to Courts as well as to families. The workshop will cover the National Framework to protect Australia’s children, modi able risk factors for maltreatment of children, types of child abuse, therapy for children or parents or parent-child relationships, topics where Courts make rulings, characteristics of high con ict couples, the dynamics of violence, and standards expected of an expert witness.
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