BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EVENT:
One day CPD event exploring the theoretical construct of parental alienation, understanding, recognition and interventions titled "Parental Alienation: Understanding, assessment and intervention for children"
THE AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP ARE:
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With parental alienation now included in the ICD-11.
This CPD training will empower practitioners to identify and assess for the presence or absence of Parental Alienation in a family.
Furthermore, practitioners will be well placed to integrate the parental alienation construct into their professional practice in a timely manner.
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To provide a grounding in the theoretical models, global research, assessment protocols and evidence based interventions relevant to parental alienation.
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To enable identification of risk factors and alienating behaviours in children, carers and families.
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To consider differentiation between justifiable estrangement and parental alienation.
FOR WHOM?
All social, legal, psychological and mental health practitioners working with children and families, practitioners working as expert witnesses in private family law proceedings, undergraduate and post graduate students.
WHAT WILL PARTICIPANTS LEARN
Practitioners are increasingly being faced with a phenomenon where children strongly align themselves with one parent while rejecting the relationship with a previously loved parent without justification in the context of a high conflict relationship breakdowns often referred to as parental alienation (PA).
The American Psychological Association is currently reviewing their position in relation to the phenomenon. The British Psychological Society and CAFCASS have placed this phenomenon on their agenda publicly. Additionally, the phenomenon is in the current draft of the ICD 11. It seems timely that a CPD event that raises awareness, education, aetiology, construct, interventions and impact on children and families in Ireland be provided at this time to health professionals in Ireland.
