Current Challenges for Professionals Addressing Violence and Abuse
If you are not attending in-person a remote link will be sent to your email a week before the preconference.
AM Session Description
In courts, claims of parental alienation are often raised in response to reports of violence between separated parents or child abuse, resulting in damaging prolonged abuse sometimes including murder of children. This session includes an overview of the problem, mitigation, and a mother’s account of her custody dispute culminating in the murder of her 16-year-old son by his father.
All of the following times are in Pacific Time.
8:00 am to 8:30 am: Registration
8:30 am to 8:40 am: David Corwin, MD - Introductions and Overview
The Parental Alienation Concept and Laws to Limit its Harm in Family Court
8:40 am to 10:40 am:
- David Corwin, MD, Chair - Addressing Violence and Abuse Concerns Between Separated Parents
- Jean Mercer, PhD - Outcomes of Reunification Therapies for Parental Alienation
- Leah Moses, CNM, MSc, MFA, mother - 14-year custody battle including alleged rape, IPV, child sexual abuse and coercive control with PA cross complaint ending in a child’s murder and father’s suicide
- Danielle Pollack, MA - New Laws: Kayden’s Law and new state laws intended to raise requirements for expert witnesses, exclude concepts and treatments without scientific evidence of effectiveness and safety, and education for family law judges and staff about IPV and child abuse
- Steven Berkowitz, MD, DFAACAP - Discussion
10:40 am to 10:50 am: BREAK
10:50 am to 12:20 pm: Sharon Cooper, MD and Victor Vieth, JD - Why Not to Show Sexually Explicit Images of Victims to them in Child Sexual Abuse Investigations
12:20 pm to 1:30 pm: LUNCH
Innovations in Trauma Informed Care
1:30 pm to 4:30 pm:
- Martina Jelley, MD - Innovations in Trauma-Informed Care
- Eddy Machtinger, MD - Primary Care as a Protective Factor
- Mercie DiGangi, DO - ACEs Screening in Pediatrics – ACEs Aware
- Stan Sonu, MD - Integration of Trauma, Resilience, and Equity in Theory and Practice
- Ellen Goldstein, PhD - Prenatal Intervention for Reducing Stress in Pregnancy
- Megha Shankar, MD - Caring for families of immigrants
