The Traumatic Impact of the Dissolution of the Family: An Interdisciplinary Approach

The mission of this conference is to empower mental health professionals, judges and lawyers with the knowledge and skills to mitigate against the psychological traumatic effects of family dissolution.

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Conference Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the complexities of psychological trauma in the dissolution of families, and how to identify its symptoms.
2. Demonstrate how psychological trauma can be identified in families, well before family dissolution (intergenerational transmission of trauma, cumulative trauma within a particular family member, and past and present trauma within the family).
3. Examine how racism, sexism and other forms of bias contribute to psychological stress and trauma in family members before and during family dissolution.                             
4. Identify how the legal system and the court process unwittingly can create and/or exacerbate psychological trauma in family dissolution.
5. Explore alternatives offered by mental health and legal professionals to help mitigate the traumatic effects that can occur in family dissolution. What Can We Do?

Attendees and speakers will receive a family study to review prior to the conference.  Reading the family study prior to the conference is essential to meaningful discussion for Panels B, C and D.

Cancellation & Refund Policies

Written cancellation or change notifications must be received no later than Monday, October 11, 2021 via email to info@nywba.org. After October 11, 2021, no refunds or credit will be issued. Substitute attendees are welcome, but we must be notified with their names and contact information. If you do not attend, you are still liable for full payment. In the unlikely event that this program is cancelled, you will be notified immediately via email and a credit will be issued toward a rescheduled conference, or the entire submitted registration fee will be refunded without further liability on the part of the organizer.

Special Needs Requests

If you have a special needs request, please email emily.mohr@managemellc.com at least 2-weeks prior to the conference date.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. 
Contact emily.mohr@managemellc.com for more info.

NYWBA CLE Information | 6.5 CLE Credits
Panel A: Masters: 1.5 CLE Credits, Skills
Panel B: Mendelson: 0.5 CLE Credits, Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
Panel B: Lui: 0.5 CLE Credits, Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
Panel C: Rooney-Lusterman: 1.0 CLE Credits, Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
Pane C: Phoenix: 1.0 CLE Credits, Professional Practice
Panel C: Trager: 1.0 CLE Credits, Professional Practice
Panel D: Holtzman, Maxwell, Carton: 1.0 CLE Credits, Professional Practice

The New York Women’s Bar Association is an accredited CLE provider. The Association has approved of the above-listed credit hours for established attorneys and as transitional credit hours for newly admitted attorneys.

NYS Continuing Education Information
*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts.
*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education credit for licensed social workers.
*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors.
*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists.
*The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists.