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2025 Annual CCE Update

altHosted by: Lori A. Love, Ph.D.

altInstructors: Hon. Margo Lewis Hoy (Ret.),  Leslie Drozd, Ph.D.,  Sandra L. Mayberry, J.D.,  Christy Bradshaw Schmidt, LPC, MA,  Sally Lynch, LMFT

alt Approved for 8.0 Hours of CE Credit

altFulfills License Requirements

Love, Hoy, Drozd, Mayberry, Bradshaw, Lynch

 

Program Description:

This 2025 annual update for the Child Custody Evaluators (CCE), as specified by California Rules of Court, rule 5.225(i), is hosted by Lori Love, PhD. Presenters are the Honorable Judge Margo Hoy (ret), Sandra Mayberry, Esq, CFLS, Christy Bradshaw Schmidt, LPC, Leslie Drozd, Ph.D., and Sally Lynch, MA, LMFT.

This training provides timely updates on key judicial decisions and legal trends from the past year relevant to Child Custody Evaluators (CCEs). It explores systemic resist/refuse dynamics, including the critical question of “when to let go,” and offers guidance on how evaluations can support the effectiveness of conjoint family therapy. Presenters will address what therapists need from CCEs in resist/refuse cases and how to respond when therapy is no longer viable.

Additional topics include developing and testing alternative hypotheses, and current best practices. The training emphasizes legal defensibility in Parenting Plan Evaluations (PPEs), identifying common pitfalls and emerging PPE challenges. Attendees will learn strategies to reduce bias, improve judgment, and enhance transparency, along with techniques for integrating findings into reports that meet ethical and legal standards and reflect a deliberate approach to hypothesis development and testing.

Presentations:

  • Hoy: Judicial Updates 2025
  • Mayberry: Legal Updates 2025
  • Drozd: When to Let Go: When is it Time to “Call It” in Resist/Refuse Cases?
  • Bradshaw: Conducting Custody Evaluations with Integrity: A Best Practice Booster
  • Lynch: Recommendations in Evaluations that Benefit the Utility of Conjoint Family Therapy

Applicable California Rules of Court, rules 5.225 and 5.230, et. seq.

This training was sponsored by OurFamilyWizard - an app for peaceful co-parenting.

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Goals & Objectives:

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Evaluate key responsibilities in parenting plan evaluations and pinpoint frequent challenges that compromise clarity, neutrality, and utility to the court
  2. Analyze how to design reports that organize findings clearly and reflect a deliberate approach to hypothesis development and testing
  3. Analyze how best to incorporate feedback from work product reviews to refine their decision-making, enhance transparency, and reinforce best practices
  4. Describe how to construct thoughtful hypotheses early in the evaluation process and use structured methods to assess competing explanations for family dynamics and behavior
  5. Connect the outcome of recent legal cases to expected changes in the day-to-day work of an evaluator
  6. Plan for and collect needed information for a handover to a therapist in resist/refuse cases
  7. Identify when a resist/refuse case has reached a dead end and therapy is no longer making any progress
  8. Explain potential next steps for resist/refuse cases where therapy has failed to bring about the desired resolution

Registration Information

View and Enroll in the 2025 Annual CCE Update at portal.sfrankelgroup.com

Our Annual Updates are now hosted at our Learning Portal site: portal.sfrankelgroup.com

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Please note that our Learning Portal site and this site (our Classic site) use different login accounts, though both sites are run by the same staff at the Steve Frankel Group. 

This move helps us ensure the quality and integrity of your learning experience by complying with JCC, APA and other regulations.
  $329.00

 

CE Approval Information

  • The Steve Frankel Group, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. This course is also approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) for its licentiates' CE license renewal requirements.
  • The Steve Frankel Group, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 8.0 hours of CE credit for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs.
  • The course outline or agenda for Child Custody training have been approved as corresponding to subject areas specified in California Rules of Court, rules 5.225 and 5.230, et. seq. The views expressed in these trainings are those of the trainers and do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of the Judicial Council of California.

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