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Professional Training
Opportunities
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Dr. Garber provides advanced
professional training in child and family
psychotherapies and family law, including
child, parent and family assessment techniques
relevant to child custody, divorce and
post-divorce litigation.
- Dr.
Garber brings a wealth of experience and
expertise to training, with a particular
focus on child and family development as
these bear on therapeutic process and
legal intervention. At least equally
valuable is Dr. Garber's skill using
PowerPoint to entertain, illustrate and
make tangible and immediate the needs
and tremendous capacities of children.
- Dr.
Garber prepares every training
specifically to the intended audience,
mixing jurisdiction-specific details and
contemporary events with humor and video
to make critical child-centered concepts
crisp, clear and practical for same-day
application.
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Selecting a speaker
Your annual meeting and
sponsored continuing education opportunities reflect
on your organization. The speaker's ability to
engage participants, to recognize and respond to
their needs, to entertain and to provide something
new and useful not only benefits your organization,
but the children and families that your membership
serves.
Dr. Garber does all of this. He will work with your
organization's planning committee to create a
training that brings participants up-to-date, keeps
them interested, refuels their compassion and
sharpens their skills.
Dr. Garber brings a unique blend of expertise in
child and family development, psychotherapies and
family law to bear on every training. This
perspective opens participants' eyes and broadens
their views on children, families and their needs.
- Review Dr. Garber's c.v. here

- Watch or listen to some of
Dr. Garber's recent presentations

- Review sample training topics
here

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Sample
trainings
The titles listed below
are provided as examples, only. Each is a full-day
(6-8 hour) training that Dr. Garber recently
conducted. Use these as a starting place to discuss
possible topics with your planning committee and
with Dr. Garber directly. Please do not read this as
a menu inclusive of all possibilities.
Any training can be modified for length, expanding
or contracting the depth of presentation, the use of
case study materials and the opportunities for
discussion with participants accordingly.
Presentations can be as brief as 60 minutes or as
in-depth as spanning two back-to-back days.
Click on a title of interest to learn more, then
return to this page to read further.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF
RESIST/REFUSE DYNAMICS
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CREATING BULLET-PROOF
PARENTING PLANS
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TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS:
ASSESSING AND FACILITATING CHILDREN'S
FELT SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILY
CONFLICT
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Built on Dr. Garber's 2020 Family Court
Review article, this presentation invites
professionals to understand the polarized
child in the context of a comprehensive
ecological model. Thirteen non-mutually
exclusive dynamics are discussed, each of
which can and often does participate in a
child's contact resistance.

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Structure diminishes anxiety.
Anxiety fuels conflict.
Investing the time now in creating a
highly structured parenting plan will save
litigants and the courts valuable
resources through the remainder of the
child's minority. Here's how...
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Dr. Garber's pioneering use of transitional
objects to help children better manage the
stresses of family transition has changed
the field. This training gives family law
professionals both a new set of tools with
which to understand and serve children's
needs and a chance to look inward at their
own sources of security.

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KEEPING KIDS
OUT OF THE MIDDLE:
ASSESSING AND INTERVENING WITH HIGH
CONFLICT FAMILIES
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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
FOR FAMILY LAW PROFESSIONALS
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"HOW DO YOU GET
REFUELED?"
ASSESSING AND SERVING CHILDREN'S
EMOTIONAL NEEDS IN THE MIDST OF HIGH
CONFLICT
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Triangulation.
Polarization.
Enmeshment.
Infantilization.
Adultification.
Parentification.
Alienation.
There is no DSM of family dynamics.
This training introduces family law
professionals to the identification and
remediation of these dysfunctional
dynamics.
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Its not enough to have
once been a child yourself.
This presentation provides family law
professionals with an empirical basis upon
which to understand and assess concepts like
"the mature minor" and the application of
these concepts to practical questions
including in camera interview and the
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They may be legally divorced.
Now they need to get emotionally divorced.
Understanding how parents get their
emotional fuel tanks filled is critical to
assuring that children' emotional tanks
are filled. This presentation builds on
attachment theory to provide family law
professionals with a very practical means
of serving children's needs. Professional
self-care is emphasized as a corollary and
model to litigants.
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Costs and
conditions
- Dr. Garber will request a
stipend for provision of each training opportunity
in addition to full remuneration of travel, room
and board.
- Costs vary as a function of
preparation time, presentation time, travel time
and expenses and each organization's resources.
- Dr. Garber will work with your
organization to make costs reasonable.
- Costs can sometimes be depleted
by incorporating group book purchases.
Please reach Dr. Garber directly to discuss your
training needs, topics, schedules and associated costs

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Travel
- Dr. Garber will drive within
a three- to four-hour radius of his office in
Nashua, New Hampshire except in extreme weather.
- Dr. Garber prefers to fly
from Manchester, New Hampshire (MHT). When
connections and flight times are prohibitive,
Dr. Garber will fly from Boston Logan (BOS).
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Intensive Peer
Mentoring
Dr. Garber
provides an alternative to conventional large
group continuing education programs for family law
professionals interested in fine-tuning
child-centered skills in one or more specific
areas of practice.
Intensive Peer Mentoring is a small group
(usually three professionals) three day empirically
grounded, child-centered, case-oriented consultative
service. For details, please see the sample Service
Agreement 
This intensive, advanced training includes:
- Grounding in relevant ethics,
guidelines and standards of practice by
jurisdiction and guild.
- Survey of the relevant
literature
- Review and constructive
critique of (sanitized) sample reports
- Review of relevant assessment
and intervention instruments
- "Devil's advocate" argument
for and against current practices
- Role play enactments of
relevant deposition and testimony
Intensive Peer Mentoring is
a form of consultation. It does not constitute
supervision. Dr. Garber cannot accept liability
for participants' professional conduct.
Intensive Peer Mentoring does
not presently qualify for continuing education
credits. Dr. Garber will take reasonable steps to
support participant efforts to acquire relevant
credits on a case-by-case basis.
Learn more about
Intensive Peer Mentoring here 
Reach Dr. Garber
directly to discuss these opportunities 
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Details
Experience has
proven that the effort to anticipate the minutiae of
each training helps to avoid frustrating delays and
catastrophic failures. While some contingencies
cannot be avoided (e.g., cancelled flights,
electrical failures mid-presentation), others can.
With this in mind, the following details are
respectfully requested:
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Dr. Garber
travels with his own (PC) laptop and associated
hardware including a remote PowerPoint
controller. Nevertheless, it is useful to have
both a back-up remote controller and a mini
HDMI-USB adapter available.
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Dr. Garber's
presentations routinely include audio and video
clips. The PowerPoint projector should be
equipped for both.
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Dr. Garber
wanders as he speaks. A podium and fixed
microphone are seldom useful. Instead, a
walk-about lavaliere microphone is strongly
preferred.
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Dr. Garber
will routinely offer to provide participants
with access to the entire PowerPoint program and
extensive supporting written materials (e.g.,
case law, research studies). Please consider
whether your organization would prefer:
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Materials
delivered in advance in pdf format for print
and physical distribution and, if so, which
materials? The total package of print
materials for a given presentation can exceed
200 pages.
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Materials
delivered in advance in pdf format to be
burned to a CD-ROM or copied onto thumb-drives
for distribution?
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And/or all
materials uploaded to Dr. Garber's website so
that participants can be alerted in advance
and can access materials at their leisure and
print as they deem appropriate?
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