Course: Custody Evaluations 101: Social Capital; Developmental Ages & Stages; Role Modeling; Empirically Based Interventions; How & What to Tell Children About the Evaluation Process & Results; & The Damage of Secret Keeping Instructor: Lori A. Love, Ph.D.  Approved for 5.0 Hours of CE Credit  Fulfills Requirements for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, and Licensed Professional Counselors.  This course is designed for Full and Part-Time Private Practitioners, and Full and Part-Time Agency Employees High Resolution Online Streaming Video

This course is number six of eight total 5-hour courses totaling 40-hours of comprehensive custody training. The full catalog of courses is designed to provide participants with the knowledge to express legally compliant, ethical and comprehensive custody evaluations. All eight courses highlight controlling American Psychological standards of practice, AFCC guidelines, and California Rules of Court.

Course: 2023 IPV Update

Instructor: Lori A. Love, Ph.D., Judge Margo Lewis Hoy (Retired), and Sandra Mayberry, CFLS

Approved for 4.0 Hours of CE Credit

Fulfills License Requirements

Program Description:

Participants will be provided with updated information regarding working with Parent Child Contact Problems (PCCP) within the context IPV (Intimate Partner Violence / Domestic Violence). They will understand the dynamic of parental alienation (PA) as a form of coercive control. Participants will learn about the current trends occurring as methods of coercive control. Participants will learn from Retired Superior Court Judge Margo Lewis Hoy on how mental health professionals can assist the court in working with families with (PCCPs) and IPV. Participants shall be updated by Sandra Mayberry, CFLS on the status of Kayden’s Law and how it may impact current practices.

Goals & Objectives:

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

1. Identify noteworthy issues regarding working with families who have experienced IPV in family court.
2. Describe different modalities for intervening with the families with whom they work who are experiencing Parent Child Contact Problems (PCCPs), Family Violence (FV), & Parental Alienation (PA).
3. Give examples of the multiple effects of a variety of behaviors that impact the entire family system.
4. Apply the current status of Kayden’s Law into their current work with families.

Registration Information     $165.00

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. Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 5.225(d)(1), (2), (3) ,(4b,d), (5) ,(6), (9), (13), (14), (15) ,(20), (21), the outline or agenda submitted satisfies the requirements of the rule for 4 hours toward initial 40 hours evaluator training, and annual 4 hours of evaluator continuing education.

Considerations of Culture and Religion for the Child Custody Evaluator

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

Instructors: Mesha Ellis, Ph.D.

Approved for 1.5 Hours of CE Credit

Fulfills License Requirements

Instructor: Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D., ABPP

Approved for 2.0 Hours of CE Credit

Fulfills License Requirements

Course: Quality Evaluations in the Context of Coercive Control (CCE-188)

Instructor: Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D., ABPP

Approved for 2.0 Hours of CE Credit

 Fulfills Requirements for Psycholgists, MFTs, LCSWs, and Licensed Professional Counselors.

 This course is designed for Full and Part-Time Private Practitioners, and Full and Part-Time Agency Employees

High Resolution Online Streaming Video

Program Description:

AFCC published their Guidelines for Examining Intimate Partner Violence in 2016. In 2020, California amended Section 6320 of the Family Code to include critical dynamics of coercive control, specifying a pattern of behaviors that “unreasonably interferes with a person’s free will and personal liberty”. This workshop will highlight examples from the legislation and, using the AFCC Guidelines related to IPV, outline suggestions for assessing this critical issue.

Goals & Objectives:

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

1. Describe the content of CA’s coercive control statute and applications in case law.
2. Integrate the AFCC Guidelines in cases with allegations of IPV in parenting plan evaluation practice.
3. Describe the importance of Implementing multiple hypotheses when appointed in such cases.

Registration Information     $59.00

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 2.0 hours of CE credit for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. SFG is an approved EMDRIA International CE Credit Provider, #15002 and maintains responsibility for its EMDR courses’ programs and contents in accordance with EMDRIA Standards.

Course: Parenting Plan Evaluations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (CCE-185)

Instructor: Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D., ABPP

Approved for 2.0 Hours of CE Credit

 Fulfills Requirements for Psycholgists, MFTs, LCSWs, and Licensed Professional Counselors.

 This course is designed for Full and Part-Time Private Practitioners, and Full and Part-Time Agency Employees

High Resolution Online Streaming Video

Program Description:

Despite more than 40 years workshops and trainings, Guidelines, and journal articles related to Parenting Plan Evaluations, many evaluators still have considerable challenges understanding this challenging work. In this workshop, the presenter, who has more than 40 years of experience with these cases, will identify good forensic evaluation practice, as well as provide examples of defective work, biased evaluations, and fatal flaws to help participants use the new AFCC Guidelines and understand ways to improve the quality of their work.

Goals & Objectives:

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

1. Identify three challenges to best practice in parenting plan evaluations.
2. Apply the principles learned from the Boy Scout Oath to best practices of a parenting plan evaluator.
3. Integrate the AFCC Parenting Plan Evaluation Guidelines, CA Rules of Court, CA Family Code, CA Appellate cases, and Board of Psychology decisions into an evaluator’s best practices toolbox.

Registration Information     $59.00

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 2.0 hours of CE credit for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. SFG is an approved EMDRIA International CE Credit Provider, #15002 and maintains responsibility for its EMDR courses’ programs and contents in accordance with EMDRIA Standards.

Instructor: Robert Pelc, Ph.D., ABPP

Approved for 1.5 Hours of CE Credit

Fulfills License Requirements

IPV Update 2024

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

Instructor: Robin Deutsch, Ph.D., ABPP

Approved for 4.0 Hours of CE Credit

Fulfills License Requirements