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Refuting the 5 Factor Model: Best Practice Requires a Systemic Approach to PCCP (Parent-Child Contact Problems)

altCourse: Refuting the 5 Factor Model: Best Practice Requires a Systemic Approach to PCCP (Parent-Child Contact Problems)

altInstructor: Benjamin D. Garber, Ph.D.

alt Approved for 3.0 Hours of CE Credit

altFulfills License Requirements

Lori Love 

Program Description:

Today’s family courts commonly face the dilemma of the polarized child, the son or daughter who aligns with parent A and resists or refuses contact with Parent B. This advanced training eschews binary either-or approaches to these parent-child contact problems (PCCP). In particular, the “Five Factor Model” (FFM; Bernet and Greenhill, 2022) is dissected and found to be biased and illogical. The FFM promotes an artificial alienation versus estrangement, good guy versus bad guy approach that exacerbates family conflict. For all of its recipe-like appeal, the FFM is rejected in favor of a systemically-informed or ecological model of PCCP. A rubric is proposed with which evaluators, Guardians ad litem, work product reviewers, and finders-of-fact can minimize bias, avoid premature closure, and organize the complexity of conflicted family system dynamics in the best interests of the child.

 

Goals & Objectives:

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain why family law matters are about relationships, not individuals.
  2. Recognize and eschew binary approaches to Parent Child Contact Problems (PCCP).
  3. Describe the Ecological Model and be able to use the Rubric to guide evaluation of Parent-Child Contact Problems (PCCP).

Priming Questions

  1. Are you saying that alienation doesn’t occur in conflicted families?
  2. What wording would you recommend the Court use when ordering a family systems evaluation?
  3. These evaluations are already long and very expensive. Are you suggesting that we need to make them even longer?
  4. How do Five Factor Model advocates respond to your position?

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Registration Information
 
  $99.00

 

CE Approval Information

  • The Steve Frankel Group, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. This course is also approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) for its licentiates' CE license renewal requirements.
  • The Steve Frankel Group, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 3.0 hours of CE credit for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs.
  • Pursuant to California Rule of Court, rule 5.225, the agenda submitted satisfies the requirements of the rule for a total of 3 hours toward initial 40 hours training, and 3 hours annual continuing education for child custody evaluators.
  • SFG is an approved EMDRIA International CE Credit Provider, #15002 and maintains responsibility for its EMDR courses’ programs and contents in accordance with EMDRIA Standards.