This four-hour intensive course for advanced family law mental health professionals reviews the dynamics of the high conflict family that can result in resist/refuse dynamics and details best practice interventions in support of the child’s opportunity to enjoy a healthy relationship with both (all) parents.

Grounded in developmental theory, “Conducting Reunification Therapies” describes how children can become triangulated into their parent’s conflicts and forced to take sides with one against the other. The child thus polarized commonly resists or refuses contact with the “out” parent. A cognitive behavioral intervention built on established methods of reciprocal inhibition and graduated exposure is described as one component of successful reunification interventions.