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603.314.8841 voip
603.386.6083 eFax
PO
Box 101
Hollis,
NH 03049
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Upcoming Trainings
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Dr.
Garber provides continuing
education training to educators,
mental health, legal, and family
law professionals around the
world. Format (in-person, live
video feed, or video-recorded),
duration (two-day, one-day,
keynote, or brief), and topic
vary by audience need, timing,
and resources.
Dr. Garber uses PowerPoint(TM)
uniquely to capture complex
concepts as easily understood
visual metaphors. His
presentations are entertaining,
engaging, challenging, and
practical. Across topics and
settings and modalities, Dr.
Garber's goal is to improve
participants' here-and-now,
hands-on ability to better
understand and serve the needs
of children.
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Participants
in upcoming trainings are encouraged
to access
conference-specific
materials in advance of
the conference date. These
materials will remain
available through the
conference date for
on-site access and
following the conference
date depending on the
host's preferences.
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Is your group
planning a continuing
education training? Dr. Garber will be glad
to discuss possible
formats, topics, and how best
to engage and educate your
targeted audience.
Costs will include
travel, room,and board when
appropriate to format . Dr.
Garber's stipend will depend
on your group's resources,
how much time will be
required in preparation and
how much time will be
necessary away from the
office.
When Dr. Garber travels to
conduct trainings, its often
cost-efficient to schedule
an advanced small group
consultation prior to and/or
following the large group
event.
Examples of past trainings
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Resist/Refuse
Dynamics
and the Polarized Child
Dr. Garber
introduces an evaluative rubric
that helps to minimize bias,
avoid premature closure, and
assure taht the full spectrum of
dynamics and practical pressures
are examined. The "Five Factor
Model" is critiqued as biased
and circular.
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Sampling
Relationship Dynamics:
Considering the goals
and methods of behavioral
observations in CCEs
Evaluators are
expected to rely upon
diverse methods. This full
day training examines how
best to realistically sample
family relationships,
emphasizing a
process-oriented protocol.
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Dynamics, not
Diagnoses:
Focusing the family law lens on
relationship "fit"
Mental health
professionals working in family
law routinely drag the baggage
inherited from the medical model
into the fray. Family law is
about relationship dynamics, not
individual diagnoses. Of
particular interest is the
argument against the use of
individual adult psychometrics
in family law matters.
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Structure
diminishes Anxiety:
Assessing and imposing
roles, limits, boundaries, and
routines in conflicted family
systems
Understanding the
structures that define each
family, the structures that
define your practice, and the
structures inherent in the
judicial system is critical to
our success as family law
professionals.
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Resilience-informed
Family Law:
Building Parenting Plans on
Systemic Strengths
Child Custody
Evaluations (CCEs) and
litigation focused on weakness,
failures, and pathology rewards
the least detrimental parent and
leaves the family system in
shreds. Focusing the process on
strengths and resilience
genuinely works in the best
interests of each child.
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Dr. Garber is
the proud creator and director of
DefuseDivorce.com,
the place that parents go
to put their children's needs first.
DefuseDivorce.com provides online
education,
orientation, and resources to
divorcing parents.
Research in medicine, nursing, dentistry,
public health, psychotherapy
and numerous other fields has demonstrated
that advance orientation
improves outcomes, efficiency, efficacy,
and consumer satisfaction.
DefuseDivorce.com brings the many
benefits of
advance consumer orientation to family
law.
Read more here 
How do divorcing parents find
DefuseDivorce.com?
Courts order custody litigants to complete
specific DefuseDivorce.com programs
because
advance orientation improves the efficacy
and efficiency of interventions and
evaluations.
Evaluators require parents to complete
specific DefuseDivorce.com programs
because
advance orientation diminishes anxiety and
thereby
improves the ecological validity of the
data collected.
Clinicians refer court-involved clients to
DefuseDivorce.com because
educated consumers are more likely to feel
heard, are more satisfied, and
are less likely to suffer the stresses of
litigation.
Court-involved parents refer themselves to
DefuseDivorce.com because
education, orientation, and resources
benefit their children.
DefuseDivorce.com
hosts narrated video
programming online
created by family law
experts from around
the world
on critical topics in family
law including:
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Advance
orientation for parents who
are
court-ordered to participate
in
parenting plan evaluation
(PPE).
This one-hour program
diminishes anxiety,
improves satisfaction, and can
make PPE
more effective and efficient.
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When parents
separate or divorce,
children
can become polarized,
siding with one parent
and
resisting or refusing
contact with the other.
This
program introduces that
many variables
that must
be understood in order to
help the
child enjoy a healthy
relationship
with both
parents.
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Divorcing
parents face life-changing
decisions.
This one-hour orientation
helps parents better
understand what to tell
the kids, how much to tell
the kids,
when and where and how to
tell the kids.
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The
information contained in and linked from
this website is generic. It must not be
construed as constituting legal,
psychological, educational, or medical
advice. Decisions relevant to any specific
individual, relationship, or family should
be based on the considered opinions of
professionals familiar with the unique
culture, resources, strengths, and needs
of those affected.
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