Resume
Milton Kalish, Licensed Clinical Social Worker #11335
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R E S U M E
Present Professional Activities:
Child Custody Evaluation
Confidential Mediation for Parents
Child Custody Recommending Counselor
Accredited Expert Witness, Yolo, Contra Costa, Alameda Counties
Co Parent Counseling
Parent Child Reunification Therapy
Psychotherapy: Adult, Adolescent, Child (from age 3), Family, Couple
Advanced Education:
Certificate: The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley CA, 1987
M.S.W., Smith College School for Social Work, 1982
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1970
Professional Experience:
Child Custody Recommending Counselor, Yolo County Superior Court, 2016-present
Child Custody Evaluation, qualified under Rule 5.225 (2015-present), Rules 1257.4, 1257.7 (1999-2000)
Private Psychotherapy Practice, 1985-present
35 years experience in treatment of adolescents, children including play therapy
20 years experience with high conflict families and divorce
4 years inpatient experience: 3 years child and adolescent, 1 year adult inpatient
for further details please see Curriculum Vitae
Professional Affiliations:
Sacramento Valley Mediator Evaluator Group
Sacramento County Bar Association
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
California Association of Marital and Family Therapists
Advanced Training in Forensic Counseling:
Overcoming Barriers to Parent Child Contact, 2018
Single Parent Support Program, Carol Greenfield, 2017
Advanced Training in Child Custody Evaluation:
Over 170 hours of mandated training, for further details please see Curriculum Vitae
Advanced Training in Mediation:
40 hour Divorce Confidential Mediation Training, Sharyn Kaplan Esq., 2012
Child Custody Recommending Counselor: 40 hour mandated CCRC training, 2015
Two Day Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Training, 2015
Mediation in Domestic Violence Cases, Wm. Eddy, 2 hours, 2015
Confidential and Recommending Mediation Training, J. Schwartz, 2002
Professional Writing:
Co Author, “Divorce: A problem to be solved, not a battle to be fought”, with
Karen Fagerstrom PhD, Milton Kalish LCSW, Rodney Nurse PhD, Nancy Ross
LCSW, Peggy Thompson PhD, Thomas Wolfrum JD.
“Clinical Social Work and the Culture of War”, Clinical Update, (California
Society for Clinical Social Work, September 2004)
“Therapist Activism: Mobilizing Our Profession to Respond to the USA Patriot
Act”, (California Society for Clinical Social Work, June 2004)