Family Law Conference - Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management for Family Lawyers: Responding to Mental Health Concerns of your Clients
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Responding to Mental Health Concerns of your Clients
This session will discuss why creating a culture of care in your family law practice that responds to the mental health of your clients is key to the success of your practice.
- Prevalence and impact of mental health issues on parents & children
- Symptoms and how they may impact the family law process
- The intersectionality between mental health and family conflict
- Screening for Mental Health at Family Law Services
- Information, referral, and advice for mental health
- Client focused strategies for managing Mental Health
- Practical guidance for legal practitioners working with separated parents who have mental health issues
Presented by Dr Megan Morris, Psychologist, Megan Morris Psychology and Dr Jemima Petch, PhD (Clinical Psychology), MAPS Head of Practice, Relationships Australia
Presenters
Dr Megan Morris
Dr Megan Morris is a registered psychologist (MAPS), originally from Brisbane and has spent more than 10 years residing overseas in Thailand and Vanuatu where she worked in voluntary and non- voluntary roles in psychological support and education. On her return to Australia in 2006, Megan became an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and worked with separated families providing family mediation for resolving separated parents disputes in parenting and financial matters. She also worked for the federal government funded Family Relationship Centers, Relationships Australia Queensland (RAQ) and the National Telephone Dispute Resolution Service providing mediation. From 2010, Megan was the coordinator/manager of the Australian research project, “Outcomes for Separated Families” a collaborative project conducted by The University of Queensland (School of Psychology) in collaboration with RAQ and funded by the Australian Research Council. In 2016 Megan completed her PhD from the University of Queensland with her research focused on understanding separated families in conflict and measuring their mediation outcomes. In 2010, she began writing family reports and providing social assessments for families involved in family court, children’s court and federal circuit court matters. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Queensland, a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, the Queensland Child Protection Practitioners Association, and the Family Law Practitioners Association and is interested in improving the lifestyle of members of high conflict families and in particular the children of high conflict parenting disputes. Megan is a private consultant based in Brisbane who provides psychological support to individuals and families, mediation for family issues, and family reports and assessments for family law matters.
Dr Jemima Petch
Dr Jemima Petch is the Head of Research at Relationships Australia Queensland (RAQ), adjunct researcher at the University of Queensland and a clinical psychologist. Jemima has a particular interest in promoting healthy couple relationships through relationship education and therapy, measuring and enhancing treatment effectiveness in individual, couples and family counselling, and leading organisational change to support the adoption of evidence-based practice and assessment. Prior to working at Relationships Australia QLD Jemima was employed at both Griffith University and the University of Queensland as Project Director, testing the impact of innovative psychological interventions on couple and individual outcomes.