Two half-days: 3 & 5 September, 9.30am- 1.30pm, online

Please note that all registrations have to be paid in full before the event takes place - otherwise you will miss out on receiving the Zoom link (this is usually sent two days before the event takes place). This event will be recorded for all those who are registered on the day. Recording is available for three weeks – the link will be sent after the event.

High conflict families represent particular challenges to professionals in the family court system. Conflict may be multilayered, with some aspects predating the family’s involvement in the court system and others emerging or getting worse after the family law case has begun. Parents and their allies may be quick to blame one another, ignoring their own contributions or the issues on which the children’s needs and experiences may differ from those of both parents. Such conflicts are, increasingly, also represented in discourse among professionals, scholarship and media, which include misleading or one-sided depictions of both case circumstances and relevant science. All of these dynamics add to the risks and challenges of assessing and intervening with these complex cases. Dr. Greenberg will discuss current controversies and their implications for practice, as well as practical tools for defensible and effective assessment and intervention with these complex cases.

Presenter: Lyn Greenberg

Lyn R. Greenberg, Ph.D, ABPP, specializes in work with court-involved children and families. She provides parenting coordination, consultation, treatment and intervention services to children and families involved with the courts, as well as forensic expert and consultation services to attorneys and training/consultation services to mental health professionals. Specialty areas include assessment of child abuse allegations, child interviewing, and specialized interventions for complex child custody cases, including those involving children with special needs.

Dr. Greenberg has written and presented extensively on a variety of issues related to child custody, child abuse, professional ethics, interviewing children, and the professional practice of forensic psychology in child custody and child protection cases. She enjoys an international reputation for her expertise on treatment of court-involved children and families, early intervention, parenting coordination and other specialized services, and teaches frequently in the US and in several international venues. She and her coauthors were honored with the AFCC Meyer Elkins award for their model on early intervention with children and families. She served as the reporter and member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Task Force on Court Involved Therapists, and has been appointed co-chair of the task force to update those guidelines. She has been honored by both the American Psychological Association and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts for her work, including the 2020 Science-based practice Award. She is one of a select group of authors invited to contribute to the APA Handbook of Family psychology. She is the lead editor of “Evidence-Informed Interventions for Court-Involved Children and Families (2019, Oxford Academic Press). ,” In 2024, Dr. Greenberg was awarded The Joseph Drown Award for Outstanding Services to Children, by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, California Chapter (AFCC-CA).