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Professional Skills
Managing High Conflict Disputes: A Psychological Perspective
The aim of this workshop is to provide lawyers with a better understanding of different personality traits, and how these might present in their clients. All individuals come with their own histories (genes and environment), which shape their personality. In this workshop, we cover some of the most common personality traits that you might see in your legal work.
- Clients in high conflict disputes
- What is a high conflict dispute?
- Why do they happen?
- What client factors are relevant?
- What are these skills?
- Why do lawyers need the skills?
- Counselling microskills: why are they important for lawyers?
- Active Listening
- Non-verbal communication
- Staying ethical and professional in high conflict disputes
Presented by Dr Katie Wood, Clinical Psychologist and Julia Vitebsky, Solicitor
Description
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
*Original Content was created in September 2022
Presenters
Julia Vitebsky, Solicitor
Julia was admitted to practice in 2016 after graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws (Juris Doctor). She completed both degrees whilst having successfully competed nationally and internationally as a professional ballroom dancer for many years. Julia is incredibly client focused, commercially minded and pragmatic in her approach to every legal matter. Julia’s experience and skills in a number of different areas in private practice, including but not limited to, Family Law, Commercial Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property Law and Wills and Estates.
Dr. Katie Wood, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist
Katie is an Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Here, she is the course director for the Master of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and Master of Counselling (and nested suites). She earned her PhD at La Trobe University and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists. Katie’s research and clinical interests are in performance psychology, twin psychology, and child and adolescent mental health, including ASD, early relational trauma, and family violence. She is an author on numerous publications in this field, and has been in private practice for over 20 years where she works with clients across the lifespan. Previously, she has worked at Eastern Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and Albert Road Centre for Health.
