Do's and Don'ts: Mental Health Services and Family Law

17210 Campbell Road,Dallas TX 75252

10 September, 2021

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MHPs: Nervous about working with court involved families? Attorneys: Wondering how an mhp could assist your clients? We have ideas!! Mental Health Professionals: Do you feel confident that you have the training and requisite skills to provide effective services to court-involved families? Family Law Attorneys: Do you have questions about the treatment process and your role in promoting and assessing the efficacy of therapeutic services? If so, we can help you! The Texas Association of Family Forensics (TAFF) presents Best Practices for providing court-related treatment to children and their families: To assist the mental health professionals who provide court-related services to families involved in child custody or juvenile dependency Court processes; andTo assist family law attorneys who rely on mental health providers to deliver effective therapeutic services within the context of judicial proceedings. About This Event The distressing emotions associated with separation and divorce often result in decisions to involve children and sometimes, their parents, in therapeutic services. Both the treatment process and the information provided to the treating professionals are likely influenced by the family's involvement in legal proceedings. While an experienced and well-trained therapist can help to improve the life situations for these families, a clinician who undertakes court-related treatment with insufficient experience and training may not only escalate family conflict but cause significant and far-reaching damage to the children, their parents, and their extended families. CEUs 6 hours with 2 hours of Ethics *Mental Health CEUs provided by Between Two Homes Lunch sponsored by Our Family Wizard If you are a professional working with families navigating their way through the court system, you are aware of the distress and even despair they often experience. We are here to help. Texas Association of Family Forensics (TAFF) is a group of mental health professionals involved in forensic services. We are all about promoting best practices for mental health practitioners and family law professionals in their work with families involved in family law courts. For mental health professionals - psychologists, social work practitioners, and licensed professional counselors - we are here to help in giving you the best practices in dealing with these complex family situations. Practices that help your families to grow and develop in the midst of intense stress. Ways to help counseling practitioners know how to stay clear of stressful ethical issues, and how to be comfortable in this work with families. For family law professionals - family law attorneys, ad litum attorneys, amicus attorneys, and judges - we want to help you in knowing clear ways of utilizing mental health folks powerfully to help your families settle their differences peacefully. Utilizing mental health professionals to truly meet the best interests of the children - without compromising your own role as family law professionals or the mental health professional’s role. In that vein, we also are working hard to unite through educational efforts with family law professionals and mental health professionals, in order that together - we may work and find new ways of serving these families to everybody’s benefit.