Parent child contact problems (PCCP) is one of the most difficult challenges in family law cases. The Washington Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) is holding it’s 10th annual conference to address the PCCP topic over Friday and optionally on Saturday, April 25-26, 2025.
Conference speakers are national experts Leslie Drozd and Barbara Fidler. They will focus on intermediate and advanced concepts and solutions to teach how to recognize the problem and intervene. They will also look at the complex challenges PCCP cases pose for family courts, family attorneys, parent educators, GALs, and mental health specialists who work with resist/refuse dynamics (RRD).
This session is for lawyers, judicial officers, forensic professionals, mental health specialists, and other people working in family law and dependency cases.
Speakers
Dr. Drozd is a licensed psychologist who works clinically and forensically with families in the various stages of divorce, including families with parent-child contact problems, co-parenting therapy, family therapy, reintegration therapy, and parent coordination. She is part of a group of experts producing a 16-hour training for the AFCC: Advanced Issues in Family Law: Parent-Child Contact Problems.
Dr. Fidler is a psychologist in private practice who has more than 38 years of experience working with divorcing families. She has authored four books and many chapters and peer reviewed papers, including as guest co-editor of two special issues of the Family Court Review (FCR) on alienation (January 2010 and April 2020). She served on the AFCC task force that developed the Guideline for Parenting Coordinators in 2019.
Conference details
Friday, April 25, 2025. 8:45-5:15. $325 for AFCC members, $375 for nonmembers, $225 for full-time WA county court personnel.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 9:30-12:30. $75. Topic is advanced interventions and solutions for PCCP cases. Friday conference registration required.
Both sessions at the Washington Athletic Club, Seattle