Winter 2017
Who Keeps the Dog? How Can You Bring the Pet’s Perspective into the Divorce Process? with Karis Nafte
This 90-minute presentation, recorded on March 23, 2021, is designed to give you practical tools when dealing with pet custody/guardianship.
Mediating a Divorce When a Child Has Autism Spectrum Disorder – Part 2 – Financial Issues
This 90-minute presentation, scheduled for April 30, 2021, will address the financial issues involved when mediating a divorce where a child has autism spectrum disorder.
Mediating a Divorce When a Child Has Autism Spectrum Disorder – Part 1 – Parenting
This 90-minute presentation, held February 10, 2021, addressed topics including Autism Across the Spectrum: Key Points for Parents and Professionals; National Special Education Laws (the IDEA). and much more.
Unconscious Bias: Creating an Understanding that Works for Everyone (Part 2)
Part 2 of our Unconscious Bias workshop was presented by Dr. David Campt and Matthew Freeman, on Friday, January 29, 2021. This joint program, presented by APFM, Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation (MCFM), and Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council (MCLC), continues to take a family mediation focus on diversity issues vital to our practices and to our society.
Unconscious Bias: Creating an Understanding that Works for Everyone
The keynote reviewed the insidious nature of unconscious bias, explore the ways that our lack of recognition of it and of built-in racial hierarchies tend to undermine goals of an inclusive, caring and just society and collaborative professions. The video is available to non-members to rent on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/apfm20201120/487462963
APFM 2020 Conference: Sponsor Presentation – Soberlink
This presentation discusses facts surrounding alcohol use and family law, options for alcohol monitoring, Soberlink technology, and Soberlink family law monitoring programs.
APFM 2020 Conference: Sponsor Presentation – Our Family Wizard
This presentation discusses using an online communication tool, Our Family Wizard, for divorced and separated parents to help them with co-parenting and communication.
Intimate Partner Abuse in Adults and Divorce Mediation with Tina Zhang
This presentation seeks to help attendees develop awareness of and gain insight into what intimate partner abuse can look like, its mechanics, and how it relates to divorce mediation. This webinar was recorded July 31, 2020.
Emotional Regulation & Improving Communication Skills: What Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Concepts Can Teach Family Mediators with Tammy Berman
This webinar focused on how Dialectical Behavioral Therapy concepts can help family mediators. This webinar was held June 25, 2020.
Mediation – An Integral Part of Effective Individual Therapy Sessions
by Pamela GarberMediation Within Couples and Family Therapy After seventeen years of providing therapy in private practice, I became a mediator. From my mediation instructor’s first sentence and throughout the training, there was an unquestionable link between the...