14 and 15 November 2024
Organised by CEAP, the first INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS ON PARENTAL ALIENATION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE was held on 14 and 15 November 2024 at the Aula Magna of the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
Presentations
The opening remarks were addressed by Dr. Mauricio L. Mizrahi. The following psychiatrists, psychologists, judges, and lawyers who are experts in the field spoke in person and online.
Agenda
First day
8.15 am.
Accreditations.
9.00 am.
Opening remarks of the Congress by its president, Dr. Mauricio Luis Mizrahi.
FIRST MODULE
Moderator: Mercedes Ladereche
9.45 am.
10.15 am.
10.45 am.
Coffee break.
11.15 am.
Lecture by Philip Marcus, LL.M. (Israel, former Jerusalem Family Court judge), “The Need to Investigate the Economic and Human Costs of Family Breakdown and Alienation, Compared to the Costs of Prevention”.
11.45 am.
Presentation by David Ramírez Acuña (Costa Rica, Clinical Psychologist and Forensic Expert), “The Psychosocial Repercussions of Parental Violence in Children of Conflicted Divorced Parental Couples.”
12.15 pm.
Space for questions.
12.50 pm.
Lunch.
SECOND MODULE
Moderator: Adriana Parada
14.50 pm.
Lecture by Edward Kruk (Canada, Professor Emeritus of Social Work), “Confronting Denialism of Parental Alienation as a Form of Domestic Violence”.
15.20 pm.
15.50 pm.
16.20 pm.
Space for questions.
THIRD MODULE
Moderator: Kalanit Jalif
16.45 pm.
Words of the author of the "Handbook on Parental Alienation", by Sandra Veloso, Argentina, Family Court Judge.
17.15 pm.
Words from the author of the Treaty, Dr. Mauricio Luis Mizrahi, former Judge of the National Court of Civil Appeals.
18.00 pm.
Coffee break.
FOURTH MODULE
Moderator: Mercedes Ladereche
18.30 pm.
Presentation by Silvana Verónica Giachero (Uruguay, Psychologist, Psychotherapist), “Parental Alienation, a form of Child Abuse: Myths and Fallacies.”
19.00 pm.
19.20 pm.
Space for questions.
19.35 pm.
Coffee break
Second day
8.15 am.
Accreditations.
FIFTH MODULE
Moderator: Adriana Parada
9.00 am.
9.20 am.
9.40 am.
10.00 am.
10.20 am.
Space for questions.
10.50 am.
Coffee break.
SIXTH MODULE
Moderator: Kalanit Jalif
11.10 am.
11.30 am.
11.50 am.
Lecture by Sergio Dubove (Argentina, Lawyer), “Beyond Theory: “How to Litigate Parental Alienation.”
12.10 am.
12.30 am.
12.50 pm.
Space for questions.
13.30 am.
Lunch.
SEVENTH MODULE
Moderator: Kalanit Jalif
15.20 pm.
15.50 pm.
16.20 pm.
Mariana Gallego (Argentina, Attorney at law), “Analysis of criminal judgments in Argentina - the Bocca – Biasotti Case.
16.40 pm.
17.10 pm.
Coffee break.
17.40 pm.
18.10 pm.
Lecture by Mandy Matthewson (Australia, Psychologist), “Invisible Trauma, Lasting Impact: Abuse and Resilience in Adults Exposed to Parental Alienating Behaviors”.
18.30 pm.
Space for questions.
EIGHTH MODULE
19.00 pm.
19.30 pm.
End of the Congress.
The speakers addressed, from their areas of expertise, topics such as high-conflict separations, false allegations of family violence, acute cases of parental alienation, the consequences of this family dysfunction on the psyches of the affected children, the psychosocial repercussions of parental violence, parental alienation as parent-child abuse, the legal responsibility for impediments to contact between parents and children, the effectiveness of judicial measures of re-connection, the analysis of family violence laws and their impact on parent-child bonds, how to litigate in family violence cases, how to litigate in family violence cases, and the impact of parental alienation on parental-child bonds, legal responsibility for impediments to contact between parents and children, the effectiveness of judicial measures of re-engagement, the analysis of family violence laws and their impact on parental-child bonds, how to litigate cases of parental alienation in judicial praxis, the child's right to co-parenting, gender ideology as a driver of parental alienation, the denied evidence of parental alienation, and so on.
Dr. Mauricio Luis Mizrahi was the president of the Congress. The international coordinator was Dr. Alejandro Mendoza Amaro, the general organiser and national coordinator was Dr. Sergio Dubove and the interprovincial coordinator was Germán Mauro. The General Secretary and Treasurer was Dr. Kalanit Jalif. Special collaborators were Dr. Mercedes Ladereche and Dr. Andrés Beccar Varela.
During the event, the "Tratado de la responsabilidad parental" was presented, authored by Dr. Mauricio Luis Mizrahi, a work that will soon be published by Editorial Astrea, Buenos Aires. The presentation was made by the Family Judge, Dr. Sandra Veloso.
Registration for the Congress was free of charge, but required prior completion of a registration form. The Congress operated in a dual mode, face-to-face and virtual.
