We might as well talk about the Northern California Mediation Center alongside ?The Judith Wallerstein?Center for the Family in Transition,?and right alongside respective corporate and nonprofit filings, fundings, tax returns affiliations and actions.
And this historical development of all the above, from another point of view than the mutual press releases, publications, and in general buzz. ? ?There IS another point of view, and it deserves to be heard and placed alongside the scope of influence available to the networks that have developed around these, and surprisingly few (but well-published) psychological, psychoanalytic, and legal writers, trainers, speakers, consultants and in short authorities.
TIMEFRAME: ?After all in the 1980s?Joan B. Kelly, Judith S. Wallerstein, Janet R. Johnston (see last post), some others, started corporations (organizations) to promote and practice their theories (promote their analyses) ?in direct response to the ?no-fault divorce? and feminism of the 1970s ? and have helped move the nation further forward (or back, depending on one?s point of view) towards treating divorce as a crime and the divorcing parent as a criminal, even if the reason for divorce was criminal behavior by one parent towards the other, or the child, or third parties.
In addition, as I have discovered that til one knows the business/corporate ~ government grants & contracts relationships, one doesn?t know ?squat? about who?s right or what?s right.
I would say more ? right here, right now ? except this post was already published; after thinking about it overnight and the overall scope of the situation here ? I have QUITE a bit more to say. ?But let this be a start of saying: ?those that complain about certain professionals tendencies, influence, and theories (like parental alienation) ? shame on you, it?s about time you put in the personal time (take it away from a rally to Washington, D.C. and begging whoever?s President to ?Do something, Please listen to us, Help us, form a task force, do an audit, start an initiative!? ?Or even ?Stop marriage/fatherhood funding? (and then failing to properly identify its history and spread, or the scope of its influence).
ANY PERSON who WILL NOT CHECK FACTS ? this includes CORPORATE/ECONOMIC facts ? and develop few skills, learn some tools to do this ? and will not analyze one?s friends as thoroughly as one?s chosen ?opposing parties? ?should shut up, sit down, and look up til things make sense. ?So that you could explain it without having to quote everyone else, and be unable to provide a halfway coherent HISTORICAL development of how certain groups gained their influence over so many lifes, and courtrooms.
After all ? the idea is complaint and stopping it, right? ?How can you stop something you haven?t stopped to analyze? YOURSELF!?!
I did this ? my life was brought to a complete stop (all the principle activities) to fight this ridiculous battle, because so much was at stake, and the situation was far, far more extreme than most realize. ?ANYONE could overnight be uprooted, lose a child, lose housing, lose work ? and without due process, or recourse.
Those ethical, honorable, non-wifebeating, non-child-abandoning, non-child-abusing, nonlitigious, and often nonparent simply PEOPLE, whose work continues to help make businesses, universities (and/or government) whirr and hum ?? who?are also so sure this won?t be them, are many times contributing to the problem ? are actually tolerating and financially supporting an abusive, warlike government that is doing this to its own population.
In other words, from WHERE do we think the power to make life and death decisions in 20 minutes (or, ex parte) over a child?s safety or a parent?s -based on a complex formula of financial incentives, wide discretion by judges, the need of individual states to keep their welfare funding (regardless of the strings that come attached with it) ? ? comes from, huh???
added Sunday 9/23/2012).. ?Back to the more narrow topic:
(All right, I know some of that sarcasm wasn?t really called for ? but neither do I believe this outfit is, or was):
http://www.ncmc-mediate.org/joan.html
This is a beautifully tailored website to a California Nonprofit that doesn?t just DO business with the family courts, it?s helping direct that business and has personnel (at least currently) that are part of it.
Or, as seen through the ?Registry Search? site on California Attorney General:
(looks like nothing for 2011, and an IRS? missing for 2009 ? I?ve seen worse not marked delinquent, so don?t know what that?s about?) ?The square below shows their revenue? but it?s from the IRS, apparently our state didn?t get their Forms??
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Joan B. Kelly is often found being quoted alongside Judith B. Wallerstein by, for example, Janet R. Johnston ? which makes what they?re saying even more true than if it had been observed by a neutral third party, eyewitness, but without a Ph.D. to validate it . . . . .
All of them have many honors to their names, so let?s deal first with the Joan B. Kelly honors. ?First of all, she?s from Yale ? so who can counter that? (in 1970, that is). . . . and unlike those of us going through divorce and the family law scene these days, it appears she?s been able to hold her field of study together and stay with it. ?What I?m intending to show (over the course of a few posts) is that one way such people can do this is by forming the nonprofits, and organizing well, including organizing their funding from the beginning, working well with the PR, and staying close to the source of business, generally speaking, the courts?
Kelly is a clinical psychologist, researcher, teacher, and consultant, who was a Founder and Executive Director of the Northern California Mediation Center from 1981-1999.
?Kelly received her Ph. D. from Yale University. Since 1970, her research, clinical, and teaching career has focused on research in children?s adjustment to divorce, custody and access issues, divorce mediation, applications of child development research to custody and access decision-making, and Parenting Coordination. She has more than 90 publications in these areas of interest, including the book Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce (Basic Books, 1980). ***Joan is a frequent keynote speaker, workshop leader, and trainer at state, national and international conferences, including judicial and legal conferences in many countries, AFCC, American Psychological Association, Family Mediation Associations in Canada, England, and Scotland, and the New Zealand Psychological Association. Dr. Kelly has been honored with many awards, including Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Mediator Award from the Academy of Family Mediators, and the Distinguished Research Award and the Meyer Elkin Award from the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Joan is Past-President of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Family Mediators and the Board of the California Dispute Resolution Institute.
Joan can be contacted at: P.O. Box 7063, Corte Madera, CA 94976-7063
Those are tremendous awards, not to mention getting through Yale.
Thank you, Joan Kelly, for your and friends? theories that helped make bring my personal life (including academic and professional) AND one of my daughters? personal future educations to a grinding halt through repeated interruptions directly attributable to the AFCC?s (and some of the above-mentioned organization?s) collective determinations that THEIR future retirements and professions were worth more than my family?s ? or many family?s, particularly female-headed families ? and determined that what the world needed, really, was clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and behavioral health advocates in control of things. ?Things, like the court system.
Only through this type of reasoning could it truly be possible for the eradication of the concept of a crime as defined by law, and replacing a concrete definition of crime based on actions (evidence) with ?the crime of one?s inability to get along with a criminal, and/or people who, when given standards, refuse to keep them based on, because of their gender and the particular scene in the courts these days, they don?t have to?
Not to mention, the courts don?t apparently have to follow THEIR own rules either. ?After all, this is therapeutic jurisprudence based on what?s best for the child (according to the professionals on child development, psychology, and the politics of alienation?)
No ? really ? how?d you like it if your Yale Ph.D. became irrelevant, ?(as well as pretty much ?your character, work life, and financial future) pretty much because you took a serious stand against what was clearly wrong (abuse, assault and battery, extortion, abandonment, threats, slander, perjury, and forcing a spouse and kids to beg while the other spouse was adequately banked, transported, clothed, and had no POW situation going on?) and insisted on appropriate boundaries ? with the other parent . . . only to find out that the court doesn?t approve of those (socially moral, legally understandable)?? ? For comparable situation of someone closer to your generation, please contact Judith Reisman and read her autobiographical pages, then come back and tell me ? is incest acceptable or unacceptable, throughout society?
This is exactly what a walk through the family court system has become. ?The first thing established is who has the power? and it?s most important to make sure that this is not the parents, but the practitioners, which of course teaches children as well (who see this in action, and are smarter than given credit for) ? that the most important thing in life is WHO YOU KNOW not WHAT YOU DO ? and definitely not concrete standards of right and wrong they can then have as a structure.
This is EXACTLY what happens to many mothers walking through a family court system. ?They come up against the egos of every practitioner and the biases of every federally-funded incentive in the neighborhood ? and are not told of this in advance, naturally. ? ?How many of us can really process and comprehend that NOW, the criminal system + the family court system in tandem often cancel each other out. ?Police don?t have to arrest, DA?s don?t have to prosecute and judges have wide discretion; no one really HAS to do anything, but if the parent doesn?t do as he or she is told, that parent could be held in contempt, tossed in jail (or threatened with jail) and lose everything ? children, housing, reputation, and friends.
That?s interesting, as one of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition?s 3 incarnations is in Corte Madera also. ?Obviously Kelly & Wallerstein have been working together (i.e., collaborating on books and projects) since the 1980s, but maintaining their separate organizations businesswise. ?This is kelly?s ? the other is wallerstein?s. ?(see last post);
Note on the Book referenced above ?Surviving the Breakup.?
Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce
Judith S. Wallerstein,?an internationally renowned expert on marriage and divorce, is principal investigator of the Children of Divorce Project. She is the founder of the Center for the Family in Transition, in Corte Madera, California, and the author of the bestselling?Second Chances,?a follow-up study of the same families in this book ten years after divorce. Her most recent book is?The Good Marriage.Joan B. Kelly,?co-principal director of the Children of Divorce Project from its inception until 1980, is known internationally for her research, articles, and presentations in the divorce, custody, and mediation areas. She is a past president of the Academy of Family Mediators and is executive director of the Northern California Mediation Center in Corte Madera, California.Judith S. Wallerstein,?an internationally renowned expert on marriage and divorce, is principal investigator of the Children of Divorce Project. She is the founder of the Center for the Family in Transition, in Corte Madera, California, and the author of the bestselling?Second Chances,?a follow-up study of the same families in this book ten years after divorce. Her most recent book is?The Good Marriage.Joan B. Kelly,?co-principal director of the Children of Divorce Project from its inception until 1980, is known internationally for her research, articles, and presentations in the divorce, custody, and mediation areas. She is a past president of the Academy of Family Mediators and is executive director of the Northern California Mediation Center in Corte Madera, California.
The Incorporation in 1981 was by a J.D. who is now also its executive director, and whose bio is also on the website.
compare the timing of a related firm:
| Entity Name: | THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIATION CENTER |
| Entity Number: | C1049143 |
| Date Filed: | 07/10/1981 |
| Status: | ACTIVE |
| Jurisdiction: | CALIFORNIA |
| Entity Address: | 175 NORTH REDWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 295 |
| Entity City, State, Zip: | SAN RAFAEL CA 94903 |
| Agent for Service of Process: | NANCY J. FOSTER |
| Agent Address: | 175 NORTH REDWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 295 |
| Agent City, State, Zip: | SAN RAFAEL CA 94903 |
This bio of Nancy Foster at Mediate.com tells me a number of things, including a possibly Christian or Catholic background ? she taught at Pepperdine, she
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If she specialized in ?securities and real estate law prior to family law, be assured she understands how the money works. ?. ?I don?t know what year the UMichigan Law Degree was (interesting, because Janet R. Johnston and (the amini foundation ?founder,? the late Faribroz (sp?) Amini, M.D. was also up there at a Neuropsychiatric Institute ? ?and there is a well-known Children?s Law Clinic there as well (which relates to this field of family law obviously. ?NACC & AFCC are overlapping institutions sometimes as to conferences, sometimes as to memberships).
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIATION CTR
175 N REDWOOD DR STE 295
SAN RAFAEL,? CA? 94903-1978
- NORTHERN CALIF MEDIATION CENTER
- NORTHERN CALIF MEDIATION CTR
- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIATION CENTER
| 2010 | 06/09/2011 | 990 | Initial Return | $43,453 | |
| 2009 | 07/13/2010 | 990 | Initial Return | $45,964 | |
| 2008 | 06/30/2009 | 990 | Initial Return | $11,940 | |
| 2007 | 12/30/2008 | 990 | Initial Return | $13,968 | |
| 2006 | 09/13/2007 | 990 | Initial Return | $25,357 | |
| 2005 | 12/14/2006 | 990 | Initial Return | $21,714 | |
| 2004 | 12/12/2005 | 990 | Initial Return | $9,479 | |
| 2003 | 12/08/2004 | 990 | Initial Return | $6,181 | |
| 2002 | 07/30/2003 | 990 | Initial Return | $10,763 |
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| EIN: | 942768875 | |||
| Ruling Date: | 01/1982 | |||
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| ERI NTEE: | I51 ? DISPUTE RESOLUTION & MEDIATION | |||
| Group Exemption Number: | 0000 | |||
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| Classification: | 1 ? Corporation | |||
| Deductibility: | 1 ? Contributions are deductible. | |||
| Foundation: | 15 ? Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public | |||
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I just finished looking (briefly) at an tax return for this nonprofit ? and am wondering for what reasons can an organization which has $331K or so of Program Service Revenue ? an Executive Director whose 40 hour work week nets $173,967 (that?s salary) and the same person is also listed on the same tax return as an Independent Contractor for $132,376. ?Also transactions with persons of related interest (like Joan B. Kelly, Former Employee) indicates they shared program revenues (but no $$ figure shown).
The Executive Director is also an attorney ? which just goes to show that attorneys are SMART about organizing their finances ? Nancy J. Foster, who is featured on the website:
She is also on the ?Keybridge Foundation? which turns out to be a USDOJ-funded foundation that administers TItle II and III ADA (Disability) mediation for people with complaints based on their ADA status.
KBF ADA Mediation Program
The Key Bridge Foundation for Education and Research received a grant in 1994 from the US Department of Justice (DOJ)
to administer a mediation program to settle complaints under Title II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.?In 1994, the Department of Justice established the ADA Mediation Program. Initially funded through the ADA Technical Assistance Program, the Mediation Program now operates under a contract with the
Key Bridge Foundation.??
This ADA topic is often related to situations resulting from divorce, i.e., someone is injured ? or someone having been stalked or repeatedly traumatized through the courts as well may develop an exacerbated PtSD situation such that they cannot, literally, defend themselves in the courtroom..
So then, they would normally go look for a family lawyer who (incidentally) will also be marketing books by Wallerstein, Kelly and friends (Vicky Lansky seems to be another one, I?ve still seen Richard Gardner books around, although he allegedly committed suicide after coming up with the Parental Alienation theory as to why Suzy doesn?t want to visit Daddy and is acting out in pre-school in ways beyond her years . . . . . ? ?).
Or they can be (and I?ve seen them) also be marketed through the AFCC network or statewide Unified COurt System that requires parenting classes of ALL people modifying a custody plan (mandatory):
Here?s one (random choice) from Oregon, showing Wallerstein, Kelly, Lansky, and even Isolina Ricci (also associated with the California Court System//Judicial Council/AOC/CFCC. ?In other words, MARKETING! ?MANY family lawyers will recommend these books ? why wouldn?t they? ?Many family lawyers are AFCC members, and AFCC helped develop the family law field (i.e., add a psychologist) to start with. ??You scratch my back . . . . .?
http://www.feiblemancase.com/books.php
Recommended Books About Family Law Issues:?
NOTICE SOME OF THE YEARS ON THESE BOOKS ? THEY ARE OLD, LIKE 1970s, 1980s. ?Moreover, anything 1980s and pre-1996 predates welfare reform, which made a HUGE difference in the family court system child support, and a lot more. ?It funded many of the programs mandating counseling, mediation (in some states), etc. ?It set up the supervised visitation network as an (inappropriate in my opinion) response to the battered women?s shelter movement, i.e., keep the family separate from the person that was going to harm them or had been.
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I mean, any clinical psychologist with some experience in this field gets to put out a book, and it?s likely to be circulated among the ranks. ?Here?s Lois Nightengale, apparently from California but it shows a MA? license (notice, being marketed on in Oregon family law site. ?they must have some conferences in common, right?)
Dr. Lois Nightingale is one of the very few psychotherapists licensed both as a Clinical Psychologist and as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor.
{{actually I don?t believe that?s this uncommon?}}
This means she holds both a masters degree and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology [[FROM....??]], has completed the thousands of hours internship requirements for each therapeutic specialty and passed both the written and oral exams in California for these two therapy licenses. She has extensive experience working with families, couples, adolescents, children and adults.
Dr. Nightingale has received additional post graduate training in many modes of psychotherapy including Behavior Modification, Short Term, Relationship, and Family Therapies, Chemical Dependency, hypnosis, Cognitive-Behavioral, Jungian and Transpersonal psychotherapies. Because it is a high priority of hers to bring clients the most current and up-to-date treatment, she spends over 200 hours a year in continuing education and specialized training.
She specializes in family communications; behavioral contracting and helping families in conflict and crisis find practical tools that work. She primarily uses solution-based therapies with a focus on short-term problem solving orientations, along with humor and a strong emphasis on the positive.
Since 1980 her experience in the mental health field has also included being a faculty member of the Holmes Institute School of Ministry, forensic evaluations, court testimony, and program?director of two psychiatric hospital units
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Yep, the Holmes Institute (San Diego) ? Graduate School of Consciousness Studies ?// Religious Science? (distance learning?.)
?Holmes Institute is the premiere training program in the world today for Religious Science Ministry?
Bring it on ? hypnosis, altered consciousness, religious science, and psycho-educational classes for my kids with whichever brand comes our way (including the very religious brands as well, in which divorce is truly a crime against God and man?.) . . . . .
This unique program is dedicated to educating Licensed Ministers for United Centers for Spiritual Living through a quality distance education program in the areas of education, leadership, philosophy, science and spirituality, psychology, and religion
?http://www.unitedcentersforspiritualliving.org/Program_visioning/index.php
I keep saying (in private and in public) that psychology and psychiatry are, at their essence one of two things:
- Personal worldviews shared by people with enough degrees to get these worldviews socially accepted and named ?scientific? although essentially they are religious. ?The shared terminologies through conferences and publications is essentially confirming (self-validating) the framework among themselves. ? I?m not the only person that has mentioned this ? see also writings of Nicholas Cummings, or just look at the foundations of the APA and various leaders, whose following basically attained cult-like followings, from about 1900 on. ?See particularly the role of YALE in these (home of Skull & Crossbones??) ?. . . I notice Kelly is from Yale, and Marsha Kline Pruett (above) I think is there.
- On the darker side ? and do I confront this enough yet, or not? ? they are studies in the science (for real) of behavioral modification, including some very immoral but with military applications, practices in how to fragment the human mind (including in very young children) to create multiple personalities, some of who can be controlled through hypnosis. ?(see again wanttoknow.info ? or see testimony of Paul Bonacci in The Franklin Coverup. ?People have survived this and given some testimony. . . . . .
Practically speaking, this is the cumulative effect of this system of setting up a virtual network, widely spread, but with a few and limited circle of ideas and people in control ? and having it close to the courts (control and access to population to study) AND close to the federal funding as well.
I picked on one person (a ?Dr. Nightengale?) but in the above sample list I also noticed a John Gottman, Ph.D. as an author?.
Some people are having a real heyday with this ? and others are having hell. ?
Gottman, Ph.D. book for sale:
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Marriage & Couples ? The?Gottman?Institute
www.gottman.com/48994/Marriage?Couples.html
The Art & Science of Love is offered live in Seattle several times per year with Drs .?John?& Julie?Gottman, or around the country with one of our Senior Certified??
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the NCFR is a conservative organization which also gets the HHS grants.
This guy I can at least respect ? he got the Math/Engineering background and then took it into psychological research, as opposed to going straight psychology and then joining AFCC and drink the Kool-aid.
Educational History:
B.S. Mathematics-Physics (Magna cum Laude), Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1962 M.S. Mathematics-Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964 M.A. Clinical Psychology-Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1967 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1971
Title of Thesis: Time-series analysis in psychology and education, and a methodology for
action research (Richard M. McFall, supervisor) Honor Society: Sigma Xi
Anyhow ? organizationally (I looked at the NCMC?s articles of incorporation) ? nowhere are bylaws, or any record of its original principal ? only the registered agent:
?JOEL A. SHAWN, ESQ. Friedman, Shawn, Sloan & Ross 407 Sansome St., Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94111? ?(Which would be downtown SF, basically I think the financial district, high rises, etc.).
it started out in Greenbrae, at a place now listed as a LMFT place:
Dan Neuharth PhD MFT Psychotherapy and Marriage Counseling in??
therapists.psychologytoday.com/?/Dan+Neuharth+PhD+MFT+ ?
Office. Dan Neuharth PhD MFT Psychotherapy and Marriage Counseling in Marin?900 South Eliseo Drive?Suite 101.?Greenbrae,California?94904. Show map?..
But by 1984 nonprofit registration accepted, the address was in a Corte Madera address which now shows a law office (and possibly other offices nearby): ?in Corte Madera, CA ? at a place (incl. suite #) now listed as a law office (1981) and by 1982 (nonprofit status letter) was ?300 TarnalPlaza, Suite 175 Corte Madera, CA 94925?_ _ _ (for what it?s worth . . . . . ). . . .
ANYHOW, all are into training. ?Here, for example, is part of a vitae of a Janice Burrill ? whose FULL of all kinds of workshops, including several (as I recall offhand) taught by Kelly & Wallerstein, or Foster ? for CEUs. ? ? Please look it over carefully and sacn what types of terminology and framework these people are being trained in ? and then ask what chance would a lowly litigant with a real situation of danger, or real child abuse ? be able really, to do about it ? with all this ?alienation? theory being pushed so hard?
?FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY // BURRILL (RESUME)
Janelle Burrill, Ph.D., J.D., L.C.S.W. Board Certified Diplomate
PUBLICATIONS: (this person?s publications):
1. Burrill, J. Parental Alienation Syndrome in Court Referred Custody Cases, 2002, Dissertation.Com.
2.?Burrill, J. Descriptive Statistics of the Mild, Moderate and Severe Categories of Parental Alienation Syndrome; Reluctance to Verify PAS as a Legitimate Syndrome and the Reasons for the Reluctance, The International Handbook of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Conceptual, Clinical and Legal Considerations, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher: Illinois, 2006. Contributing author of the above three chapters.
(IT GOES ON AND ON IN THE SAME VEIN FOR PAGES)(the phrase ?parental alienation? shows up 13 times?)
_ Parental Alienation in Post-Divorce Parent-Child Relationships, Northern?California Mediation Center, December 5, 1997.
- Fundamentals of Family Law for Mediators, Northern California Mediation Center,?March 1996, 8 CEU hours, Nancy Foster, J.D., Joan Kelly, Ph.D.
- Mediation in Sacramento, Ca. Society for Clinical Social Workers, 1996, Tom?Russell, Diane Mayo, Jerilyn Borack. ?(Borack is ?The Hon. Borack,? i.e. a judge ? and was quoted in 2011 in an article complaining about custody being given to batterers (Peter Jamison, SFWeekly) which drew over (the article series) 1800 comments, basically men?s and women?s groups fighting. ?That the Hon. Borack being quoted was AFCC hadn?t been brought to the author?s attention . . . . ?alas?).
- Interviewing Children in Mediation, Advanced Mediation Seminar, Northern?California Mediation Center, 8 CEU hours, 1995, Joan Kelly Ph.D.
- Child Development and Parenting Issues for Mediators and Special Masters,?Northern California Mediation Center, 1995, 8 CEU hours, Joan Kelly, Ph.D.
- Substance Abuse, UCD, by Jerome Lackner, M.D., 1 CEU hour, 1995. ? Shared Parenting Support Group by Dr. Doral Frank Leek, 1995, Court List,Certified Shared Parenting Therapists.
- A Guide to Family Law for Mental Health Professionals: An Overview of Divorce;?Divorce Mediation; Child Custody in California by Bartholomew & Wasznicky,
1995. ? Parental Alienation: Assessing and Treating Coercion of Children During?Divorce and Custody Disputes by Dr. Larry Nichols, Professional School of?Psychology, 1994.
- Neurobiological Aspects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline?Disorders ? Treatment Indications, Sutter Center for Psychiatry, l994
As to HIGH-CONFLICT ? with the hyphen, no: ?without the hyphen? twice (which is typical of AFCC talk). ?It usually goes about like this:
?Dealing with Parental Alienation in High Conflict Custody?Cases.?
?High Conflict Child Custody and Trauma Experienced by Children,? Vivian?Roseby, Ph.D., Janet Johnston, Ph.D., Marin, California, March, 2000.
(if you made it through my post on the Center for Families in Transition ?(published 9/21/2012) ? you will note that Vivian Roseby and Janet Johnston (whether separately or together, I DNR) shared Board of Directors status on one or more of the EIN#S associated with ?THE JUDITH WALLERSTEIN CENTER FOR THE FAMILY IN TRANSITION? NONPROFIT that is not making any money ? but somehow is getting a nice TAGGS grant absent a DUNS# for doing so as far back as 1995?.)
In other words, Roseby & Johnston publish together. ?When Johnston publishes, she is typically going to quote Kelly or Wallerstein (or both) and talk the same general talk ? parental alienation and high-conflict. ?It?s what they do ? like girls who can?t go to the restroom one at a time ? the whole crowd has to go along for security (???) . . . . ?lest they meet without their buddies a person on an equal plane and might have to reason with that person absent quoting the experts?
And at least one time it was a foundation with a DR. Wallerstein (Mister, not Mrs.) on the board, whose assets came from a DR. (MISTER) Amini ? while Elizabeth Ann (Cunningham) AMINI was signing some of the tax returns or RRFS for this (Judith Wallerstein) Center for the Family in Transition.
No wonder they don?t have too much problem with incest? ?The whole relationships between these groups is inbred in viewpoint, associations, terminology, language, and purposes.
To their credit, they do actualy ?Say? the word Domestic Violence in some of these courses (which I take are also collaborating and discussing how to frame it within the co-parenting context): ?For example:
Allegations of Domestic Violence in Custody and Access?Disputes.
Or, it comes up (this is still Janice Burill?s vita I?m selecting phrases from) ? but in this context:
- Second World Congress on Family Law and the Rights of Children & Youth,?Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, San Francisco, California, June 2-7, 1999.
Courses : (see link for context ? not as part of the Congress, I don?t think, but DNK)
- - Factoring Family Violence into the ?Best Interest of the Child.?
- - Impact of Domestic Violence on Children: Intervention and Policy Considerations.
- - Fatherhood: Emerging Roles and Expectations.
- -Divorce Education Programs: An International Showcase
- -Substance Abuse and Parenting: Forensic Assessment and Judicial Decision-Making.
- - Meeting the Best Interests of the Child or Achieving?Equity for Parents?****
- - Custody Disputes Between the Psychological Parent and?Psychologically Healthier Parent.
And just in case we don?t forget
*** I gather that if it?s a toss-up between whether a child may be alienated, or whether both parents may have access to their offspring, the parent most at risk for ?alienating? the child should be deprived of custody, because alienating is UNhealthy. ? ?(see Parenting Coordination series, or pcahn.org for a sample of where the ?mother? is likely to fit in that scenario, or go survey some of Richard Warshak?s publications (warshak.com) ? he has a course out teaching the father?s attorney how to remind the MOTHER?s attorney to threaten her with total loss of contact with her kids ? and this is happening. ?A lot ? if she doesn?t agree to share well (for example, when there?s abuse going on during visitations or other issues they can?t resolve).
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ANYHOW, IN THIS RESUME ?JOAN KELLY? comes up 5 times, ?Janet Johnston? 3, I also notice Matthew Sullivan (another family law professional who does parenting coordination); ?association of family and concilliation courts? 6 times, (AFCC twice), ?etc.
?Alienation, Undermining and Obstruction: A Field Guide for?Professionals, June 6, 2002.?
THIS TYPE OF EDUCATION HAS MUTUAL BENEFITS ? THEY GET CEUs and CREDIBILITY ? THE TRAINERS GET MONEY AND ALSO PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE (I.E., NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIATION CENTER? SHOWED ABOUT $300K REVENUE ONE YEAR, THAT I SAW ? NANCY FOSTER EARNED $173K SALARY AS THE HEAD OF THIS NONPROFIT (AND ? AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR FOR THE SAME NONPROFIT SHE?S EXEC DIR OF ? ABOUT $135K? WHICH WAS THEN DEDUCTIBLE AS AN EXPENSE.). . ? ? . . . THEY ALL GET THEIR VOCABULARY TOGETHER.
I?m pretty sure some of this training is then billable to the public (if it?s a public employee ? like a judge, or a court-apppointed mediator or attorney taking it, etc.) AS CONTinuing education.
Such a deal ?. . . then the trainings are put onto electronic format (DVDs of the conferences) and books are published, and periodicals (AFCC works with the NY private University, ?Hofstra? school of law in to put out the Family Court Review, which it has been doing for years) ? and so forth ? and all that is subscribed to (professional journal, memberships, travel to conferences, etc.) ? AND THEN SOLD ON-LINE. ?Plus their books are sold by family lawyers, or sometimes even family courts ? throughout the land.
Anyhow, for J Burrill (who?s listed in the Sacramento area ? her name is known by protective mothers, and not too positively as I recall, but I don?t know her personally) ? ? This is the education ? we can see that while it has law, her primary emphasis is NOT law but behavioral science ? and ideal combination for AFCC purposes:
DUCATION
Janelle Burrill, Ph.D., J.D., L.C.S.W. Board Certified Diplomate
CURRICULUM VITAE
JANELLE BURRILL, Ph.D., J.D., L.C.S.W.
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER, LCSW 16216
Board Certified Diplomate
2001 Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (conferred October 22, 2001) North Central University, Magna Cum Laude?Prescott, Arizona
1991 Juris Doctor?University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, California
l989 Master of Social Work?California State University, Sacramento Concentration: Mental Health, Adults and Children G.P.A. 3.87
1986 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, emphasis Brain Physiology University of California, Davis, Regents Scholar G.P.A. 3.92, Highest Honors, Magna Cum Laude
HONORS AND AWARDS 2007 ?Who?s Who Among Executive and Professional Women, Honors Edition. 1996 ?Who?s Who Among Professionals and Executives for 1996
So this woman is very smart in her field. ?I do not respect the field, however ? it takes advantage of people and views too many of them as subjects. ?And overall, this field is often hostile to plain old mothers?..
moreover, in California in particular (not that this isn?t happening in other states also) there has been high-profile after high-profile family wipeouts (murder/suicides) which many times actually involved some of these professionals.
And still their literature almost never skips a beat. ?I don?t get that (look up Seal Beach, California ? Scott DeKrai walked into a hair salon (with bulletproof and ammo) andkilled his exwife and about EIGHT other people (two men, the rest women) over not having sole custody (he already had half). ?His wife had it on record she was afraid of him and a previous attorney associated with AFCC (and a presenter at some of its conferences) phrased this as a ?typical divorce.? ?that was fall 2011!
There is a discrepancy of viewpoints, in other words. ?Now picture how many people have gone through these trainings in the SF area (plus wherever Joan Kelly, others, went and taught) ? and you basically have a pretty good picture of what family law system is like: ?pick a state ? it won?t be radically different.
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THIS (I just found it when searching web, but it?s on ?theLizLibrary? (Liz Cates, FL Family Law Attorney) ? and written by a woman in Canada after her experience being trained, and functioning to pretty full capacity, as a supervised access provider ? while her husband was a child advocacy attorney.
I?m still reading it, but she is discussing how she came to question her indoctrination into the belief that others were vindictively accusing fathers of sexual abuse as a part of ?parental alienation.? ?It?s interesting in that it also mentions Nicholas Bala (well known in Canada, and to my understanding, he DOES buy the PAS thing) but states the lack of evidence for their claims.
Obviously my post here is not conclusive, and is alternating between subject matter (of the professionals) and their various business structures. ?I just wanted to bring this up and am open to feedback. ? People should ALWAYS know the professional incorporation status of their local court professionals ? it may be very relevant to individual cases?.
So here we go (again, I just found this and am still reading it; my eyes are about to cross from so much time (today, yesterday) so I?ll leave it on this note ? go look up the author etc. on the link):
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/Bessette_Francoise_T_2008-09_MA.pdf? I?m interested because in part she narrates her process of being trained to supervise, then questioning her training as she began to prepare a master?s thesis and had to look at the evidence. By the way, the title is very accurate?
Disciplining Divorcing Parents:
The Social Construction of Parental Alienation Syndrome
by
FRANCOISE T. BESSETTE
A thesis submitted to the Department of Sociology In conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts
Queen?s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada September, 2008
UChapter 1 UIntroduction
My interest in the topic of parental alienation began in the late 1990?s through my work with court ordered supervised access. My work began through a chance meeting with Jane Grafton, the woman responsible for introducing this service to Vancouver and is now called as an expert witness on matters of supervised access. She started doing the work in the mid 1980?s at the request of her husband, a child advocacy lawyer. His clients wished to have their ex-partners, who were court ordered to be supervised during parental visits, supervised by a neutral party because of concerns of bias and denial of wrongdoing by members of ex-partners? immediate family and/or close friends. Within a few months Grafton?s business swelled to maximum capacity and she had established a supervision house with several employees. It soon became apparent that specific training was needed to serve the many types of family situations that were referred by the courts for supervision. Karen Flynn, a colleague of Jane Grafton, developed a course under the auspices of the Burnaby School District Adult & Continuing Education to fill this gap. Sixteen women, including myself, enrolled in the initial course, in October 1997, offering a certificate providing the credentials needed to work as a supervisor in contested child custody and access cases involving court-ordered supervised access orders. I was one of two of the first class who completed the program successfully. The course focused on preparing future supervisors to recognize incidents of child endangerment during visits with their non-custodial parent and to write reports of these visits for the use in family court by judges and lawyers.
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. . .?Parental alienation was defined as ?one parent (alienating parent) brainwashing their child/ren against the other parent (hated parent)?. False allegations of sexual abuse carried this alienation process to the courts and the custody hearings in addition to poisoning their children?s minds. Parental alienation appears as gender neutral but in fact most of the elaboration and research dwells on how mothers alienate children from their fathers. The false allegation notion is almost always explicitly about how mothers raise such charges against fathers.
During my five years as a supervisor I assumed that mothers did regularly alienate their children from their fathers ? though I assumed that it was because they feared their husbands because of past experiences. I also assumed that mothers did bring false allegations against their children?s father although I had many questions and determined to make this topic the subject of a master?s thesis. I hypothesized that mothers might use this charge to prevent ex-partners from having contact with their children. I wanted to explore this idea in my thesis.
Once I began my research I was obliged to begin doubting my position regarding the prevalence of false allegations during high conflict custody and access litigation. ?
. . .
This information forced me to question the validity of the supervised access training I had taken and reflect on the impact I have had on the lives of those I supervised. I wondered how this new social service area developed from a place meant to protect children from neglect and abuse, while allowing for a parent/child relationship, to one defined as a place for protection against alienation of fathers by mothers.
As a result of these findings, my research topic shifted dramatically. I am interested in:
(1) How the notion of custodial mothers using the ?false allegation? defence in cases of high conflict divorce developed; and
(2) How the concept of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) developed as a legal tactic used by non-custodial parents as leverage in high-conflict custody cases.
Chapter Two introduces the reader to the perspective of social constructionism and some of its major players
(She talks about medicalization of language, which is definitely the process. ?If more people would pay better attention to the associations (etc.) and their writings, they?d have a better understanding of what a custody case is actually going to be about?. as opposed to only listening, for example, to ?Crisis in the COurts? advocacy groups whose terms and frameworks are favorable to one?s own cause.
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/Bessette_Francoise_T_2008-09_MA.pdf
I hope this post at least scratches the surface of a few ways to look at this issue!
Other references ? again, we?re in Canada now (do you know how this got up to Canada? If not, then you should. ?Think ?associations? ? as in trade associations!)
Johnston, Janet R. 2003. ?Parental Alignments and Rejection: An Empirical Study of Alienation in Children of Divorce?. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Vol. 31:158-170.
Johnston, Janet R. 1993. ?Children of Divorce Who Refuse Visitation?. Pp. 109-135. In Nonresidential Parenting: New Vistas in Family Living, edited by Charlene E. Depner and James H. Bray. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications. ?{{Depner is AFCC and worked or works in the California Judicial Council/AOC/CFCC? search this blog). ..
Kelly, Joan B. and Janet R. Johnston. 2001. ?The Alienated Child: A Reformulation of Parental Alienation Syndrome. Family Court Review. Vol. 39:3:249-266.
I TOLD you ? these are like girl-gangs, only at the Psy.D. level. They hang together, publish together, start nonprofits that work together . . . . . ?and it WORKS. ? At least, for the people running the programs and often ONE of the two parents involved?.
Rand, Deidre, Conway. 1993. ?Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: A Complex Type of Emotional Abuse Responsible for Some False Allegations of Child Abuse in Divorce?. Institute of Psychological Therapies, Vol. 5. Retrieved on line June 17, 2008 at Hwww.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume5/j5H
> > > >I know a mother accused of this. ?See Charles Pragnell (I think) on the issue. < < < Men almost never get accused of this, it is directed at mothers, as a lot of labels are? < < <
PS. In Bessette?s references she has this: ?Ask me about it sometime (I.e., William Bernet of the ?Warrior Gene? ???)?
Bernet, William. 2006. ?Sexual Abuse Allegations in the Context of Child Custody Disputes?. Pp. 242-263. In The International Handbook of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Conceptual, Clinical and Legal Considerations, edited by Richard A. Gardner, S. Richard Sauber and Demosthenes Lorandos. Sprinfield, Illinois, USA: Charles C. Thomas Publishers.
Seriously, he was studying it: ??Can Your Genes Make Your Murder??
When the police arrived at Bradley Waldroup?s trailer home in the mountains of Tennessee, they found a war zone. There was blood on the walls, blood on the carpet, blood on the truck outside, even blood on the Bible that Waldroup had been reading before all hell broke loose.
Assistant District Attorney Drew Robinson says that on Oct. 16, 2006, Waldroup was waiting for his estranged wife to arrive with their four kids for the weekend.
(warning ? NOT bedtime reading there?. But while we (parents) sometimes have to deal with these real-time situations, the talkers will continue talking (pretty much the same talk they started in about the 1980s, as above) and training, and to heck with the results?. and there have been such results?.).
Any result can be reframed as a psychological problem when in fact it was a system problem caused by psychologizing someone else?s safety?. ?So I prefer (overall) to get back to and keep it to the financial matters, which are (for one) less subjective and a bit more revealing. ? And intriguing.
It?s a lot easier to produce some financial material and ask questions, then to defend an entirely subjective label applied by people who have a professional lifetime invested in its truth, and creating followers who also don?t take kindly to this truth being questioned, and forcing for them (as it did for the parents) major lifestyle shifts towards uncertain futures?
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