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Impact of Mental Illness on Parenting Capacity in A Child Custody Matter
November 7, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Representing clients who present with behavioral issues or mental illness can be challenging and complicated for clients and the attorneys who represent them. Josef Passley, PhD, a licensed psychotherapist, consultant, educator, author and owner of Passley Consulting & Psychological Services, LLC will help us as attorneys to identify parenting and co-parenting tasks and behaviors that may be influenced by mental illness, how they are linked to child outcomes, and how to integrate effectively impactful mental health information into matters of custody and child custody evaluations. This webinar is hosted by Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Family Law Judicare Project.
Dr. Josef A. Passley is a licensed psychotherapist, consultant, educator, author and owner of Passley Consulting & Psychological Services, LLC. He holds degrees in Clinical Psychology (PhD), Counseling Psychology (MA), Counseling (BS), and Bible (AS). Prior to starting the practice, he served in a group practice as a behavioral health specialist providing high quality outpatient mental health treatment for children, adolescents and adults.
His professional background is also attributed to his experience in providing behavioral health services to children and adolescents in inpatient, partial hospitalization, and respite programs. He has provided services to children, adolescents, adults, individuals, couples, and families in therapy settings and outpatient mental health treatment programs at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Psychiatric Hospital.
He has conducted professional and academic presentations both nationally and internationally. Among these included lecturing and leading round table discussions for other professionals from around the world sponsored by the University of Oxford’s Round Table in Oxford, England. He has also contributed to significant topics affecting the community speaking to various media outlets including but not limited to: “Children and Holiday Depression,” “Paternal Absence and its impact on society,” and “Young children and aggression in the classroom”
Dr. Passley is an author of Single Parenting in the 21st Century and Beyond and From Depression to Aggression where he shares his knowledge and offers insight into many of society’s greatest problems. His biography is included in highly esteemed references including Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Great Minds of the 21st Century, Leading Health Professionals of the World, and Leading Educators of the World.