The Effects of Divorce on Family Systems

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This seminar will address the complexities within family systems leading up to, during, and after a couple dissolve their marriage. Current statistics, actual case studies, problem solving and psychological detriments that impact the system will be presented for the benefit of clinicians in preparation and treating individuals and couples subjected to this life changing adjustment. The Effects of Divorce on Family Systems would best be geared toward clinicians at an intermediate and advanced level who have experience in working with couples and families.

• Presenter will demonstrate learning how to treat couples in marital discord leading to divorce, during the divorce and post divorce process, both through the court system and mediation.
   
• Presenter will demonstrate the complexities of the process of divorce including the psychological pains of grieving, legality, and eventual restructuring of the family, post divorce.
   
• Identification of risk and protective factors associated with children’s psychological and academic, social adjustment, the importance of how this impacts parenting in two households, how co-parenting is remedied, the possibility of parent alienation, loyalty binds, parent/child alignment, sibling rivalry, and extended family involvement. Presenter will teach the clinician on how to detect behaviors that are the result of temporary adjustment of the fractured household. Separate from the system issues that lie beyond divorce but yet exacerbated by divorce, and those issues that are unrelated but can impact the divorce proceedings and family structure.
  
   
•  An Introduction to finances and decision making around moneys and security while in an emotional state will be led by co-facilitator who is a CDFA (Certified Divorce Financial Analyst).  As experienced in courts and mediation future financial anxiety and uncertainty in lifestyle can halt the process of divorce settlement leaving the couple to further tensions and detrimental effects of all those living in the household. Presenter will teach how to detect between concrete and emotional facts in order to help the individual obtain clarity for long term decision making that is essential for divorce settlements.
   
• Problem solving, solution based treatment will be offered to assist the clinician that is treating the family while coming to terms around changes in finances and life-style in order for the couple to resolve and dissolve and move toward healing.
   
• A shift from sole-custody and residential custodian to more shared parenting model have been more frequent in the court system, as non-traditional homes and couples have become more main-stream. Clinicians will learn more about how non-traditional households hold up in court and be better equipped to serve their clients through-out custody disputes.

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER 

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Dana Greco LCSW  is a graduate of Fordham University, where she earned her MSW, and a graduate of The Ackerman Institute for Family and Couples. She is in private practice, specializing in couples, marital issues, and divorce. In addition to her private practice, Dana co-owns The Mediation and Family Counseling Group. Her position as mediator and divorce coach supports the couple in dissolving their marriage, restructuring the family while treating the underlying issues and protecting the family from acting out and causing psychological harm to themselves and to the extended family.

Dana Greco, is also on the Mental Health Professional Panel, for the Supreme Court Appellate Division, where she served families through custody disputes, child visitation, parent supervision, custody reports and evaluations.

Dana is the co-author of Conscious Coupling: Positive insights for Long Lasting Relationships Shared by Two Divorce Mediators, and author of the parenting book, Please Don’t Buy Me Ice Cream: A child’s rules for priceless parenting.

Don Desroches, CDFA  is a co-founder and mediator in The Mediation and Family Counseling Group. He has helped clients, even high conflict clients, come to resolutions to end the marriage in an amicable way. He has worked with personal and professional finances, helping couples to navigate the minefields of divorce. Pulling together financials and helping them understand the future impact post divorce..

Don has earned the highly regarded CERTIFIED DIVORCE FINANCIAL ANALYST or CDFA designation from the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts, enabling him to thoroughly review the finances of divorce and provide the appropriate information to allow the couple to make the best decision they can.  Without the right information and knowledge, the couple may be making decisions that can impact them negatively in the future after divorce.  Additionally, he is registered with FINRA as an S99 designation for work in a financial services firm.

He has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry, providing him the ability to understand the complexities of each individual’s finances during divorce. Additionally, he is a member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.