| SUBSTANCE ABUSE SOLUTIONS AND DIVORCE: Strategic Interventions & Abstinence Monitoring Substance use issues risk undermining trust, destabilizing agreements, and creating chaos for divorce professionals and clients. Colleen Moore DeVere, LMFT, MAC, a seasoned substance-use evaluator and nation-wide abstinence monitor, has over three decades of experience engaging divorce cases involving substance use. Learning Objectives – Colleen will provide:. · A clear framework for understanding relational and personality dynamics underlying most intractable conflicts between divorcing clients. · Practical strategies to manage challenging substance-use divorce cases. · Methods to use substance abuse evaluations and monitoring to further effective protection for children, without undermining CDR options. · Tools for implementing abstinence monitoring and accountability. |
