Law and Mental Health: Forensic Assessment of Substance Use Allegations in High-Conflict Family

Law and Mental Health: Forensic Assessment of Substance Use Allegations in High-Conflict Family Court Cases - William Frankenstein, Ph.D. I am a licensed psychologist in Red Bank, New Jersey, at the northern tip of the Jersey shore. My practice is a general clinical outpatient private practice, with a specialization in the varied and different roles mental health professionals occupy at the interface of family law and psychology. My graduate work and early career faculty service at the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey provided me with a solid grounding in clinical and scientific aspects of addiction studies. This knowledge base led me to develop and now share a multivariate assessment model to help litigants, lawyers and courts to more objectively assess the validity and relevance of substance use allegations to child protection and best interest’s cases. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe a multi-method model for assessing substance use allegations that emerge in high-conflict family court cases and translating case data into findings, conclusions, and recommendations that will withstand examination. 2. Apply findings, conclusions, and recommendations derived from forensic substance use allegations for maximum relevance to litigant-parent, counsel, mediators and courts. 3. Assess monitoring plans that facilitate objectivity regarding the substance use allegations, minimize subjectivity, and decrease the sense that monitoring is used to punish or harass subject parents. Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.