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WELCOME PANIZ YAZDI TO OUR TEAM |
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Our team is growing from strength to strength so that we can accommodate to the needs of your clients and offer you greater availability.
Please welcome Paniz Yazdi.
Prior to being admitted as a solicitor, Paniz worked as an Associate to a Judge in Division 1 and 2 of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, and accordingly was exposed to judicial decision making early in her career. After being admitted as a solicitor, she worked in a reputable boutique law firm in Sydney, with a special focus on property matters. She was appointed as a Deputy Registrar of the Court and developed a keen interest in alternative dispute resolution, after conducting numerous dispute resolution conferences. In addition to assisting litigants resolve their matter through dispute resolution, Paniz made assessments in respect of listing matters urgently and has extensive understanding of the Court's case management process. Paniz was one of the few Registrars appointed to the Court's Hague Portfolio. |
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PARENTAL ALIENATION
The topic of parental alienation is challenging and divisive for professionals and utterly heartbreaking for parents and children. This month, Shelby attended a full day training on Parental Alienation by international expert Dr Charlie Azzopardi from the Institute of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice in Malta. This full day workshop for Family Law professionals provided an exploration of parental alienation, early detection tools, discussion and promotion of ideas, resources and treatments. Thank you to Pacifica Congress for hosting the event. You can read more about Dr Azzopardi’s work in this area here https://ift-malta.com/
Dr Charlie Azzopardi works with families who experience parental alienation. At the Institute of Family Therapy in Malta, Dr Azzopardi sees children who often have a diagnosis of ADHD, ADD, ODD, deliberate self-harm, or suicide contemplation in the context of parental separation. Occasionally a child vehemently and aggressively refuses to see a previously loved parent. This is typically visible during high conflict legal separation processes or in foster care situations. Much attention recently has focused on crisis management and reunification programs, assessment tools, and legal interventions. However, research on the very early signs of Parental Alienation (PA) is non-existent. Early detection of these signs can help identify, predict risk of parental alienation and focus treatment.
If you would like to talk to us about how we may be able to assist the families you are working with, please contact us here https://www.divorcedonedifferently.com.au/?cid=287c8533-7a2a-460e-94ac-c574ba126e4b |
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CREATING MORE COLLABORATIVE CASES |
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High conflict divorce can leave children polarized within the transitioning family system, aligned with one parent and resisting or refusing contact with the other parent. Rather than becoming mired in the bottomless pit of back and forth blame, more and more courts are seeking remedies in the form of reunification therapy. Charged with helping the polarized child to enjoy a healthy relationship with both parents, we know what doesn’t work: individual child therapy cannot remedy a family systems problem. Dyadic interventions with the child and either parent are seldom sufficient. Even family therapies fall short when they are not grounded in well-established, reliable and valid science.
Mending Fences introduces a child-centered, systemically informed, empirically-validated and experientially-proven collaborative reunification protocol. Focusing on the anxiety inhibiting the system’s healthy functioning, well-respected and long-validated cognitive behavioral exposure methods are fused with structural family therapy to reduce the child’s anxieties about separating from one parent and approaching the other, the aligned parent’s fears of separation and loss, and the rejected parent’s fears of rejection. A common vocabulary across coordinated interventions allows children across the spectrum of ages and abilities to identify and overcome an individually tailored succession of anxiety-inducing events so as to gradually (re-)establish healthy and safe relationships with both parents.
The Mending Fences protocol is practical, proven, and effective. The user-friendly discussion is peppered with up-to-date references to the scientific literature and international case law. Application via video conferencing platforms is discussed. Included: Case illustrations, sample court orders and service agreements
You can purchase the book here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/mending-fences-benjamin-d-garber/book/9781950057184.html |
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Adult children are often overlooked and forgotten when their parents’ divorce later in life, but in these pages they will find comfort and understanding for the many feelings, frustrations, and challenges they face. For more than two decades, a silent revolution has been occurring and creating a seismic shift in the American family and families in other countries. It has been unfolding without much comment, and its effects are being felt across three to four generations: more couples are divorcing later in life. Called the "gray divorce revolution," the cultural phenomenon describes couples who divorce after the age of 50. Overlooked in the issues that affect couples divorcing later in in life are the adult children of divorcing parents. Their voices open this book, and they are the voices of men and women, 18 to 50 years old. Some of them are single; some are married. Some have children of their own. All of them are in different stages of shock, fear, and sudden, dramatic change.
In Home Will Never Be the Same: A Guide for Adult Children of Gray Divorce, Carol Hughes and Bruce Fredenburg share their deep understanding gained during the innumerable hours they have spent with these women and men in their clinical practices. The result is a valuable resource for these too often forgotten adult children, many of whom find that, whenever they express their feelings and experiences, the most important people in their lives frequently ignore and dismiss them. As the divorce rate for older adults soars, so too does the number of adult children who are experiencing parental divorce. Yet, these adult children frequently say that they are the only ones who are aware of what they are going through, no one understands what they are experiencing, and they feel painfully alone.
You can purchase the book here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/home-will-never-be-the-same-again-carol-r-hughes/book/9781538135303.html |
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