At 11amCT/12pmET: Dan will discuss how individuals impacted by trauma and/or mental health challenges or disorders are often labeled as “toxic,” “difficult”, or “high conflict”, and how using such labels may result in implicit or even explicit discrimination. In addition to discussing how discrimination and bias manifests itself, Dan will provide resources and tools to foster access to justice, equality, and fairness in the court process, whether in litigation or court-annexed ADR.
This event will be followed at 12pmCT/1pmET by our regular TAPM Member Meeting. We hope you can join us for networking and fellowship!
This event has been approved for 1 hour of General/Ethics/Family CME and 1 hour of Dual CLE.
Speaker Bio:
Dan is a mediator living with bipolar disorder who adapts conflict resolution best practices to help people have empowering mental health communication while preventing mental illness discrimination. His book, Mental Health and Conflicts: A Handbook for Empowerment, was published by the American Bar Association in 2022. During his presentation, Dan will share some tools designed to help court-connected mediators and other professionals become trauma-informed and bias-resistant. These resources come from BiasResistantCourts.org – a free platform produced in collaboration with the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center and made possible with funding from the AAA-ICDR Foundation. Attendees can also access Dan’s recent Journal of Dispute Resolution article, “Ending the Epidemic of Accidental Personality Disorder Discrimination by Well-Meaning Mediators” at https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/jdr/vol2024/iss1/5/.