Can Court Ordered Therapy Survive Scrutiny? CD

This seminar is designed to discuss and explore the paradigm conflicts between the legal and mental health systems when therapy is ordered or used in the family law proceedings. It is designed as an alternative learning approach to the main theme of the conference; viz., the potential paradigm conflict between the legal and mental health settings as they attempt to work together in family law. This seminar will involve a didactic presentation. However, much of the seminar will be presented in an experiential learning format, which is designed to give the participant a private, fun, safe and non-public experience of a therapy-like process as a starting point for the discussion of how such a process and experience would be affected by a forensic application. Although the psychological exercise involved will be an in-your-seat process (no touchy-feely attorneys!), the seminar will involve voluntary participation and interaction with the presenter. The therapeutic exercise, although not intended as formal therapy, will give the participant an exercise to get rid of a long-standing bad habit or vice. And, though the exercise will be both fun (and funny at times), the seminar has a very serious focus: a discussion and reflection on how and if therapeutic processes can meaningfully survive in a forensic application.

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