AVA San Diego Preconference Registration
Chadwick AVA Preconference – Sunday January 25th, 2026
Updates: Addressing and Preventing Violence and Abuse
8:30 – 8:45 am Welcome and Intro to Day - David L. Corwin, MD Precon Chair
8:45 – 9:30 am Legal Updates: Parental Alienation and Daubert, Admissible Parts of the Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, Use of Psychological Tests and Profiles as a Defense Against Child Sexual Abuse Claims - Paul Griffin, JD
9:30 – 10:15 am Re-unification Therapies in Child Welfare and Family Courts – Models and Scientific Evidence - Kelly Champion, PhD and Sarah Trane, PhD
10:15 – 10:30 am BREAK
10:30 – 11:00 am Worldwide Efforts to End Corporal Punishment of Children – Joan Durrant, PhD
11:00 – 11:30 am Child Maltreatment must be included in all Research on Medical and Psychiatric Illness – Jeoffry Gordon, MD
11:30 – noon Strategies for Including Children’s Voices in Family Court – Suzanne Chester, JD
Noon – 1 pm LUNCH
1:00 – 1:30 pm Integrating Trauma Awareness into Your Practice – F. David Scheider
1:30 – 2:00 pm Resilience Across Cultures and Disciplines – Machelle Madsen Thompson, MSW, PhD
2:00 – 2:45 pm Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) Update – Robert Sege, MD, PhD
2:45 -3:15 pm Sexual Violence Against Women: Clinical, Community and Longitudinal Research in Australia – Laura Tarzia, PhD
3:15 – 3:30 pm BREAK
3:30 – 4:30 pm TIC in Pediatric Primary Care: 100 Little Conversations to Promote Relational Health – R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE
4:30 – 4:45 pm Questions, Discussion, and Feedback – David L. Corwin, MD
