2025 Annual CCE + IPV Bundle
Bundle and Save on your 12.0 Annual Update Requirement!

Our 2025 Annual Update CCE + IPV bundle is now hosted at our Learning Portal site: portal.sfrankelgroup.com
These courses, released in late 2025, contain our full, 12.0 hour, Judicial Council of Council approved, annual update for child custody professionals. Featuring a well-respected and expert line-up of speakers, learn the latest in the custody evaluation field from 2024 through the course's release. Legal and Judicial perspectives will help professionals understand another point of view, resist/refuse dynamics are covered, and a best practice booster is covered. Additionally, learn the latest about power dynamics and their influence on IPV, legal changes and safety challenges.
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Leslie Drozd, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and marriage, family, and child therapist and works clinically with families in the various stages of divorce including coparenting therapy, family therapy, reunification therapy, and parent coordination.
She has been a child custody evaluator for over 32 years, trains other evaluators, serves as a consultant to attorneys, and as a testifying expert in family law matters. She helped write the Association of Family Conciliation Courts Model Standards for conducting child custody evaluations (2006) and guidelines for parenting plan evaluations involving allegations of domestic violence (2016).
Dr. Drozd is currently on the board of directors of the Association of Family and Conciliation (AFCC) and Overcoming Barriers; and she is an associate member of the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee.
She was the founding editor of the peer-reviewed international Journal of Child Custody (2004-2013) and is currently on AFCC's editorial board for Family Court Review. She has taught professionals and published in peer-reviewed journals on parent-child contact problems and resist-refuse cases. She has co-edited books and book chapters on domestic violence in child custody cases, relocation, psychological testing, child sexual abuse, treatment of trauma, alienation, step-up parenting plans, and family therapy with families in which a child resists or refuses contact including a National Council of Juvenile Court Judges' bench book on Navigating Domestic Violence in Child Custody Cases (2006), Professional Resource Press Book, Parenting Plan & Child Custody Evaluations: Using Decision Trees to Increase Evaluator Competence & Avoid Preventable Errors (2013) and Oxford University Press books, Parenting Evaluations: Applied Research for Family Court (2012 & 2016).
She received AFCC’s highest honor for distinguished service, the John E. Van Duzer award, in 2013.
Learn more at her website.
Her CV can be found here
Dr. Drozd's Courses:
All of Dr. Drozd's Courses are now hosted on our Learning Portal portal.sfrankelgroup.com. Visit her faculty page there to see her full list of courses!
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