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Here is the 2019 schedule and 2020 schedule of our guest speakers for our international seminar calls. These are our top experts in the world regarding alienation. We are extremely fortunate to have these experts who give us their time, knowledge and support at no charge to any of us. These calls are extremely helpful to all alienated family members in understanding more, in helping you to get through the hell on earth of being alienated from our children and grandchildren and knowledge to deal with all aspects of those we have to deal with in this. These calls are also a huge asset to those in the mental health and legal professions as well as researchers, writers and child advocates who work in the field of alienation.These calls are for everyone all over the world. We at present have 33 countries participating in these calls.You may call in on a free conference line, Skype or download our desk top app to join our calls. Please make these calls a priority. You will be grateful you did.
2019
Sunday, June 2nd Dr. J Michael Bone and Dr. Steven Miller "Parental Alienation: Pitfalls and Pearls for Navigating the Legal Arena"
Sunday, July 7th Ashish Joshi
Sunday, August 4th Dr. Amy Baker
Sunday, September 7th Dr. John Killinger - Grandparent's Day
Sunday, October 6th Betsy Weubker
Sunday, November 3rd "HOW TO COPE WITH THE HOLIDAYS"
(This call will feature several of our experts with information and support for this difficult time)
Sunday, December 1st Dr. Joshua Coleman
2020
Sunday, January 5th Carol Golly
Sunday, February 2nd Randi Kreger and Bill Eddy
Sunday, March 1st Dr. J Michael Bone and Dr. Bob Evans
Sunday, April 5th Dr. William Bernet
Sunday, May 3rd Dr. Steven Miller
Sunday, June 7th Linda Gottlieb
Sunday, July 12th Brian Ludmer
Sunday, August 2nd Karen and Nick Woodall
Sunday, September 13th Dr. John Killinger
Sunday, October 4th Dr. Amy Baker
Sunday, November 8th "HOW TO COPE WITH THE HOLIDAYS"
(This call will feature several of our experts with information and support for this difficult time)
Sunday, December 6th Ashish Joshi
Here is the 2019 schedule and 2020 schedule of our guest speakers for our international seminar calls. These are our top experts in the world regarding alienation. We are extremely fortunate to have these experts who give us their time, knowledge and support at no charge to any of us. These calls are extremely helpful to all alienated family members in understanding more, in helping you to get through the hell on earth of being alienated from our children and grandchildren and knowledge to deal with all aspects of those we have to deal with in this. These calls are also a huge asset to those in the mental health and legal professions as well as researchers, writers and child advocates who work in the field of alienation.These calls are for everyone all over the world. We at present have 33 countries participating in these calls.You may call in on a free conference line, Skype or download our desk top app to join our calls. Please make these calls a priority. You will be grateful you did.
2019
Sunday, June 2nd Dr. J Michael Bone and Dr. Steven Miller "Parental Alienation: Pitfalls and Pearls for Navigating the Legal Arena"
Sunday, July 7th Ashish Joshi
Sunday, August 4th Dr. Amy Baker
Sunday, September 7th Dr. John Killinger - Grandparent's Day
Sunday, October 6th Betsy Weubker
Sunday, November 3rd "HOW TO COPE WITH THE HOLIDAYS"
(This call will feature several of our experts with information and support for this difficult time)
Sunday, December 1st Dr. Joshua Coleman
2020
Sunday, January 5th Carol Golly
Sunday, February 2nd Randi Kreger and Bill Eddy
Sunday, March 1st Dr. J Michael Bone and Dr. Bob Evans
Sunday, April 5th Dr. William Bernet
Sunday, May 3rd Dr. Steven Miller
Sunday, June 7th Linda Gottlieb
Sunday, July 12th Brian Ludmer
Sunday, August 2nd Karen and Nick Woodall
Sunday, September 13th Dr. John Killinger
Sunday, October 4th Dr. Amy Baker
Sunday, November 8th "HOW TO COPE WITH THE HOLIDAYS"
(This call will feature several of our experts with information and support for this difficult time)
Sunday, December 6th Ashish Joshi
"Parental Alienation: Pitfalls and Pearls for Navigating the Legal Arena"
J. Michael Bone, Ph.D. and Steven G. Miller, M.D.
Sunday, June 2, 2019. From 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
As every alienated parent and grandparent knows, cases of parental alienation tend to be difficult. They are difficult for the children, difficult for the parents, and difficult for almost everyone involved, including various mental health and legal professionals, as well as the courts. Likewise, they tend to be difficult to understand, difficult to manage, and difficult to explain. This latter point has major implications for alienated parents who must litigate, mediate, or navigate such cases.
What’s more, it is common knowledge that alienated parents tend to do poorly in the legal arena. Not only do court-appointed professionals often get these cases wrong, they often get them backwards.
But why? Why do alienated parents tend to do poorly in the legal arena?
The short answer is: For many reasons.
For one thing, the clinical issues are complex and likely to exceed the expertise of any clinician who does not specialize in this area. For another thing, to have a good outcome in court, alienated parents and their attorneys will probably need considerable expertise in presenting clinical issues, clinical evidence, and clinical experts—expertise that is not necessarily common even among first rate attorneys who specialize in family law. For a third thing, the forensic issues are likely to be as complex as the clinical issues, and are likely to exceed the expertise of any attorney or mental health practitioner who does not specialize in this area.
In addition to their child protection work, Dr. Bone and Dr. Miller (who are colleagues but not affiliated with each other) have worked for decades as scientific advisors and trial consultants. Along the way they have been involved with hundreds of cases of alienation and/or estrangement. Drawing on that experience, this presentation will identify some of the forensic issues that typically arise when litigating or mediating cases of PA. Topics will include, among many others: (1) Tips for selecting an attorney who is a good fit for your case. (2) Mediation and settlement issues. (3) The number of trial days that are typically required for alienated parents to achieve a good outcome at trial. (4) The role and use of expert witnesses in court. (5) How alienated parents and their families can prepare themselves to testify in depositions or in court. (6) Things that alienated parents and their attorneys can do to increase the probability of a good outcome.
It warrants emphasis, however, that Dr. Bone and Dr. Miller are mental health professionals, not attorneys. Consequently, they will not provide any legal advice. Moreover, they will provide only general advice--not specific advice about any particular case. Nonetheless, the material should be of great interest and potential benefit to both parents and professionals, including both mental health and legal professionals.
Dr. Miller has degrees in both Psychology and Medicine from Brown University and did residency training at Brown University and Harvard Medical School. For more than 30 years he was on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine; in addition, he has many years of experience practicing Behavioral Medicine -- a specialty that focuses on the interface between medicine and psychology. That background is particularly relevant to child maltreatment, child protection, child alignment, parental alienation, pathological enmeshment, and related issues since those clinical conditions are very much related to behavior, including dysfunctional, pathological, and abusive behavior. Likewise, he has several decades of experience practicing Forensic Medicine. A popular speaker, he has directed several hundred continuing education courses for physicians and other clinicians and presented over one thousand lectures on clinical reasoning, clinical problem-solving, and clinical decision-making. An internationally-known expert on alienation and estrangement – and how to distinguish one from the other – he is also an experienced expert witness, litigation consultant, and trial strategist.
J Michael Bone received his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees at the New School for Social Research, in New York City. He did his clinical training at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, and eventually had consulting and training responsibilities in their Department of Psychiatry. Upon return to his home in Orlando, Florida, he began a general clinical psychotherapy practice. By the mid 1990’s he began to work in the area of high conflict divorce, which eventually and inevitably led him to the problem of Parental Alienation. In the late 1990’s he published several articles on the problem and was invited to become a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the Parental Alienation Research Foundation in Washington DC. It was there that he met Richard Gardner, MD, as well as many of the first pioneers in this field. From that period onward, his focus has been increasingly on the problem of grappling with Parental Alienation. In 2006 he closed his clinical practice, stopped seeing patients, and began to work exclusively on the problem of Parental Alienation in a purely consultative capacity. In that role he has become involved in cases all over the United States and Canada. He has spoken at multiple professional conferences devoted to Parental Alienation in the United States, Canada and western Europe, and has been interviewed on many radio and talk programs, including Anderson Cooper. The most recent focus on his work has been on the challenge of how to best present Parental Alienation to the Family Court system, in ways that produce healing remedies. His belief is that just as the Family Court system may be easily manipulated by alienating parents, it can also be counter manipulated to reveal and expose the alienation.
These monthly international seminar calls are of no charge. We now have 33 countries participating in these calls. You have the option to call in on our free conference line, audio Skype or download our desk top app. Each caller may submit one question with the question consisting of 2-3 sentences in length. The questions must be in relation to the subject of this call. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Deadline to register is Sunday, June 2, 2019. These are firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
J. Michael Bone, Ph.D. and Steven G. Miller, M.D.
Sunday, June 2, 2019. From 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
As every alienated parent and grandparent knows, cases of parental alienation tend to be difficult. They are difficult for the children, difficult for the parents, and difficult for almost everyone involved, including various mental health and legal professionals, as well as the courts. Likewise, they tend to be difficult to understand, difficult to manage, and difficult to explain. This latter point has major implications for alienated parents who must litigate, mediate, or navigate such cases.
What’s more, it is common knowledge that alienated parents tend to do poorly in the legal arena. Not only do court-appointed professionals often get these cases wrong, they often get them backwards.
But why? Why do alienated parents tend to do poorly in the legal arena?
The short answer is: For many reasons.
For one thing, the clinical issues are complex and likely to exceed the expertise of any clinician who does not specialize in this area. For another thing, to have a good outcome in court, alienated parents and their attorneys will probably need considerable expertise in presenting clinical issues, clinical evidence, and clinical experts—expertise that is not necessarily common even among first rate attorneys who specialize in family law. For a third thing, the forensic issues are likely to be as complex as the clinical issues, and are likely to exceed the expertise of any attorney or mental health practitioner who does not specialize in this area.
In addition to their child protection work, Dr. Bone and Dr. Miller (who are colleagues but not affiliated with each other) have worked for decades as scientific advisors and trial consultants. Along the way they have been involved with hundreds of cases of alienation and/or estrangement. Drawing on that experience, this presentation will identify some of the forensic issues that typically arise when litigating or mediating cases of PA. Topics will include, among many others: (1) Tips for selecting an attorney who is a good fit for your case. (2) Mediation and settlement issues. (3) The number of trial days that are typically required for alienated parents to achieve a good outcome at trial. (4) The role and use of expert witnesses in court. (5) How alienated parents and their families can prepare themselves to testify in depositions or in court. (6) Things that alienated parents and their attorneys can do to increase the probability of a good outcome.
It warrants emphasis, however, that Dr. Bone and Dr. Miller are mental health professionals, not attorneys. Consequently, they will not provide any legal advice. Moreover, they will provide only general advice--not specific advice about any particular case. Nonetheless, the material should be of great interest and potential benefit to both parents and professionals, including both mental health and legal professionals.
Dr. Miller has degrees in both Psychology and Medicine from Brown University and did residency training at Brown University and Harvard Medical School. For more than 30 years he was on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine; in addition, he has many years of experience practicing Behavioral Medicine -- a specialty that focuses on the interface between medicine and psychology. That background is particularly relevant to child maltreatment, child protection, child alignment, parental alienation, pathological enmeshment, and related issues since those clinical conditions are very much related to behavior, including dysfunctional, pathological, and abusive behavior. Likewise, he has several decades of experience practicing Forensic Medicine. A popular speaker, he has directed several hundred continuing education courses for physicians and other clinicians and presented over one thousand lectures on clinical reasoning, clinical problem-solving, and clinical decision-making. An internationally-known expert on alienation and estrangement – and how to distinguish one from the other – he is also an experienced expert witness, litigation consultant, and trial strategist.
J Michael Bone received his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees at the New School for Social Research, in New York City. He did his clinical training at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, and eventually had consulting and training responsibilities in their Department of Psychiatry. Upon return to his home in Orlando, Florida, he began a general clinical psychotherapy practice. By the mid 1990’s he began to work in the area of high conflict divorce, which eventually and inevitably led him to the problem of Parental Alienation. In the late 1990’s he published several articles on the problem and was invited to become a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the Parental Alienation Research Foundation in Washington DC. It was there that he met Richard Gardner, MD, as well as many of the first pioneers in this field. From that period onward, his focus has been increasingly on the problem of grappling with Parental Alienation. In 2006 he closed his clinical practice, stopped seeing patients, and began to work exclusively on the problem of Parental Alienation in a purely consultative capacity. In that role he has become involved in cases all over the United States and Canada. He has spoken at multiple professional conferences devoted to Parental Alienation in the United States, Canada and western Europe, and has been interviewed on many radio and talk programs, including Anderson Cooper. The most recent focus on his work has been on the challenge of how to best present Parental Alienation to the Family Court system, in ways that produce healing remedies. His belief is that just as the Family Court system may be easily manipulated by alienating parents, it can also be counter manipulated to reveal and expose the alienation.
These monthly international seminar calls are of no charge. We now have 33 countries participating in these calls. You have the option to call in on our free conference line, audio Skype or download our desk top app. Each caller may submit one question with the question consisting of 2-3 sentences in length. The questions must be in relation to the subject of this call. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Deadline to register is Sunday, June 2, 2019. These are firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
