ARNOLD SHIENVOLD, PhD CERTIFICATIONS

Certifications

Arnold Terry Shienvold, PhD

Forensic Psychological Associates

111 Presidential Boulevard, Suite 153
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania  19004

arnold@fpa.email

610-255-7520

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Ohio License #7428 2016
Connecticut License #3388 2014
Pennsylvania License, #PS-003203-L 1979

Education

 Clinical Psychology Degree: Ph.D, August, 1977
Speciality: Child Clinical, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

 Clinical Psychology Degree: M.A., Granted May, 1976
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Degree: A.B., June, 1972
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

Professional & Clinical Experience

Forensic Psychological Associates
111 Presidential Boulevard, Suite 153, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, Present

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, PA, June 1, 2012 to Present

Private Practitioner, Riegler, Shienvold & Associates  
2151 Linglestown Road Harrisburg, PA, June 1980 to Present

Adjunct Professor, Widener School of Law
Harrisburg, PA, 1992 to 1999

Clinical Director, Behavioral Medicine and Psychological Services Ltd.
Central Pennsylvania Cardiac Pulmonary Vascular Physicians, Ltd
Lemoyne, PA, October 1985 to July 1987  

Consultant, Central Dauphin School District
Harrisburg, PA, August 1982 to June 1987

Consultant, Center for Behavioral Medicine Polyclinic Medical Center
Harrisburg, PA, 1982 to 1985

Consultant, Cardiac Treatment Centers
Camp Hill, PA, September 1978 to 1985

Clinical Director, Behavioral Medicine
Harrisburg Hospital Family Practice Residency Program, July 1977 to July 1984

Resource Psychologist Ridgecrest Children’s Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children
Tuscaloosa, AL, Developing treatment plans for 10-13 year old children, training staff in implementation and providing individual and group psychotherapy.

Teaching

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, PA, June 1, 2012 to Present

Publications

Anderer, S., Shienvold, A.T. Shienvold, K. Custody Evaluations, in: Custody Law & Practice in Pennsylvania, editors, David N. Hofstein and Sandra L. Meilton, PB! Press, 2011

Shienvold, A.T. Asken, M.A. Cincotta, J. Family Practice Residents Perception of Behavioral Science, Training: Relevance and Needs. Journal of Family Practice

Bryan, T.F. Asken, M.A. Shienvold, A.T. Shienvold, A.T.Behavioral Medicine: A Review. Primary Care, November 1978

Shienvold, A.T Hybrid Processes in the Settlement of Family Disputes, in Divorce and Family Mediation, Eds., Folberg, Miline & Salem, Guilford Press, 2004

Braunstein, L.J. Greenberg, L.R. Shienvold, A.T.Role of Mental Health Professionals in Child Custody Cases, New York Law Journal, November 24, 2014

Honors

Member: Advisory Committee, Honoring Families Initiative, Institute for Advancement of the American Legal System, Denver, Colorado, March 2012

Recipient: A ward for Distinguished Contributions to the Science and Profession of Psychology, presented by the Pennsylvania
Psychological Association, June 2011

President: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2011-2012

Recipient: John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award, presented by the Association for Conflict Resolution, 2006

Co-Chair: Conference Committee of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2006-2011

Member: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee to Change the Culture of Custody in Pennsylvania, 2005-2012

Member: Board of Governors, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2005-2014

Member: Task Force on Development of Model Standards for Custody Evaluators, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2004-2006

President: Association for Conflict Resolution, 2001-2002

Member: Custody Evaluation Work Group, PA Psychological Association, 2001-Present

Member: Special Advisory Council for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2001-2005

President: Academy of Family Mediators, 1999-2000

Treasurer: Academy of Family Mediators, 1997-1998

Chairman: Ethics Committee and Conference for Academy of Family Mediators, 1996-1999

Approved Consultant: Academy of Family Mediators, 1993-2000

Member: Dauphin County Task Force to create a parent education curriculum for divorcing parents, September 1993-1995

Chairman: Ethics Committee and Conference Committee for Academy of Family Mediators

Member: AFCC Task Force to create specialty guidelines for evaluating allegations of domestic violence in custody evaluations, 2011- present

Member: Advisory Council for the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, 2012-present

Professional Presentations

Presenter: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 52nd Annual Conference, Children in the Court System, New Orleans, LA, May 27-30, 2015

Presenter: North Carolina Child Custody and Visitation Mediation Annual Training, Raleigh, NC, May 11-12, 2015

Presenter: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, California Chapter, Annual Conference, Inventing the Future, Getting Ahead of the Curve for California Families, February 6-8, 2015

Presenter: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Maryland Chapter,The Misuse of Diagnosis in Custody Evaluation and Shared Parenting for
Young Children, Baltimore, Maryland, November 11, 2014

Presenter: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Annual Meeting, Social Media and Relocation, Chicago, IL, November 8, 2014

Presenter: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Parenting Plans for Young Children, San Antonio, Texas, November 7, 2014

Plenary Speaker: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Custody Symposium, Unintended Consequences of Custody Evaluation, San Antonio, Texas, November 6, 2014

Presenter: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Shall I Leave or Must I Stay Relocation Cases in Family Court, November 2014

Presenter: International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Parental Alienation in International Cases, Budapest, Hungary, September 2014

Presenter: Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Harrisburg, PA, Access to Records in Custody Evaluations, June 2014

Presenter: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, The Misuse of Diagnosis in Custody Evaluations, Cancun, Mexico, March 2014

Presenter: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Effective Cross­ Examination of Psychological Experts, Cancun, Mexico, March 2014

Presenter: Ohio Mediation Association: Advanced Mediation Skills, Columbus, Ohio, April 2014

Presenter: Ohio Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts: Assessing Domestic Violence Allegations in Custody Evaluations, Columbus, Ohio, March 2014

Presenter: Ohio Supreme Court Domestic Relations Summit: Attachment and Parenting for Young Children, Columbus, Ohio, March 2014

Presenter: New York Family Bar Association Meeting, Keynote Speaker, New York, New York, January 2014

Presenter: Association of Family Conciliation Courts/ American Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys Joint Conference: Transparency in Custody Cases, Washington, D.C., September 2013

Presenter: Family Mediation Association of Alberta, Canada, Seminar on key issues on mediation, Edmonton, Canada, April 20, 2012

Presenter: Mid-Winter Meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Intersection of Law and Mental Health, Costa Rica, March 12-16, 2012

Presenter: University of Texas School of Law, Innovations – Breaking Boundaries in Custody Litigation. The Not-So-Nuclear Family, Houston, Texas, January 19-20, 2012

Presenter: AFCC Regional Conference, Ethics in Custody Evaluations, Indianapolis, IN, October 26-28, 2011

Presenter: Family Law Bar, Dealing with Difficult Personalities, Cleveland, OH, October 20, 2011

Presenter: North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, Mediation Training, Raleigh, NC, October 17-19, 2011

Presenter: West Virginia Office of the Courts Annual Judicial Conference, Dealing with Difficult Litigants, May 23, 2011

Presenter: Family Law Trial Institute, Southwest Texas Law School, Houston, Texas, May 16-17, 2011

Presenter: Meeting of the Ohio Supreme Court, District Magistrates meeting, Components of a Competent Custody Evaluation, Advanced Concepts, Columbus, Ohio, May 12, 2011

Presenter: Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Litigating a Complex Custody Case, April 13, 2011

Presenter: New York Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, The Use and Misuse of Diagnoses in Custody Evaluations, April 2011

Presenter: Missouri Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Dealing with Personality Disorders, St. Louis, Missouri, February 3, 2011

Presenter: Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Advanced Mediation Skills, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, January 13, 2011

Presenter: Annual meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Constructing Competent Parenting Plans, Chicago, Illinois,
October 5, 2010

Presenter: Annual Meeting of the Ohio Supreme Court District Magistrates, The Components of a Competent Custody Evaluation, Columbus, Ohio, October 11, 2010

Faculty: Minnesota Chapter of AAML, Divorce Camp, September 29-0ctober I, 2010

Presenter: Annual Family Law Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, August 4, 2010

Presenter: Basic Mediation Techniques for Court Connected Mediations, Commonwealth of Connecticut, April 2010

Presenter: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Las Vegan, NV, Dealing with Difficult Clients, March 2010

Presenter: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, New Development and Research in Child Custody, Aruba, March 2010

Presenter: Advanced Parenting Coordination, two day seminar on Parent Alienation, Attachment Issues and Personality Disorders, Houston, Texas, February 2010

Presenter: Collaborative Law, Hoffstra Law School, New York, November 2009 Instructor: Ethical Dilemmas In Parenting Coordination, Reno, Nevada, November 2009

Instructor: Advanced Issues in Parenting Coordination, Personality Disorder and Impasses to the Processes, Attachment and Parent Alienation, September 2009

Trainer: Training of Court Connected Elevators of Arizona, Recognizing Personality Disorders, Advanced Processes in Mediation and Parenting Coordination, April 2009

Trainer: Advance Topic in Parenting Coordination, Alienation and Personality Disorders, New Orleans, February 2009

Invitation to Serve: As a trainer for judges for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (Invitation received September 2008)

Presenter: Domestic Violence and Differentiation: Challenges for Custody Evaluators Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 2008

Trainer: Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Workshop for Assessing Domestic Violence, October 2007

Presenter: Parenting Coordination; Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Pennsylvania Psychological Association, 2006

Member: Family Law Education Reference Project, sponsored by Hofstra Law School and AFCC, 2006

Plenary Speaker & Presenter: Safety, Stability & Permanence: Essential Components of Normal Child Development, North Carolina, Annual Conference on Child Protection, Raleigh, NC, August 2006

Trainer: Child Development Issues for Mediators and Evaluators, Court Connected Mediations for the State of North Carolina 2006

Trainer: Basic Mediation Techniques for Court Connected Mediations, Commonwealth of Connecticut, 2006

Presenter: Dealing with the Difficult Client, Pennsylvania Family Bar Association, Puerto Rico, 2005

Presenter: The Alienated Child, Pennsylvania Family Bar Association, Puerto Rico, July 2005

Presenter: Bonding and Attachment; Pennsylvania Bar Institute, State College, PA, March 2005

Panel Member: Custody Recommendation on Trial; Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Biannual Custody Conference, Nashville, TN, October 2004

Presenter: Depression in Cancer, American Cancer Society, September 2004

Presenter: Civility of Lawyers, Dauphin County Bar Association, June 2004 Presenter: Personality Disorders II: How to Deal with Difficult Attorneys;
Pennsylvania Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys, May 2004

Presenter: Personality Disorders: How to Deal with Difficult Clients, Pennsylvania Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys, May 2003

Presenter: Expert Witness Testimony in Custody Evaluations, American Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys, Sanabel Island, FL 2002

Presenter: Advanced Issues in Custody Evaluations, North Carolina Association of Court Mediators, April 2002

Presenter: The Future of Family Mediation, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), Chicago, IL 2001

Presenter: Advanced Ethics Forum, AFCC, Chicago, IL 2001

Presenter: Family Mediation, Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys, Palm Springs, CA 2001

Presenter: Advanced Ethics Forum, AFCC, November 2000

Presenter: Evaluating Move-Away Custody Cases, AFCC Conference, June 2009

Presenter: Ethical Issues in Custody Evaluation and Mediation, Michigan Association of Court Mediators, September 1999

Presenter: Executive Mediation, Wisconsin Association of Mediators, November 1999

Presenter: The Use of Questions in Family Mediation, Virginia Mediation Network, November 1999

Co-Presenter: Ethics Forum, Academy of Family Mediators, San Diego, CA 1996, 1997

Workshop Leader: Pulling the Data Together, AFCC Custody Conference, Breckinridge, CO, September 1997

Workshop Leader: Evaluative Mediation, Academy of Family Mediators, Cape Cod, MA, July 1997

Workshop Leader: Integrated Model of Custody Resolution, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Clearwater, FL, January 1996

Panel Member: Hot Issues in Custody, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Fall 1995

Institute Leader: Dual Roles in Custody Conflicts, Academy of Family Mediators Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July 1995

Presenter: Family Mediation, Central Pennsylvania Paralegal Association, October 1993

Panel Member: Conflicts, Problems and Ethics in Custody Evaluations, Pennsylvania Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Harrisburg, PA, June 1995

Workshop Panelist: High Conflict Custody Cases: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 1993

Workshop Panelist: Custody Litigation, Evaluation, Mediation: Cumberland County Family Law Division, May 1992

Workshop Panelist: The Use of Psychological Testing in Custody Evaluation, Pennsylvania Bar Association, May 1991

Seminar Leader: Psychologists in Family Medicine, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, San Diego, CA, May 1978

Seminar Leader: Stress Reduction, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 1978

Seminar Leader: Why Research is Not Done in Family Practice Residencies, Presented at the Pennsylvania Consortium of Family Practice Residencies, Hershey, PA, September 1977

Seminar Leader: Residents view of their behavioral medicine education association Behavioral Sciences in Medical Education, October 1977

Seminar Leader: Medical Psychology: The role of the psychologist within the hospital. Presented at Northeastern Association of Operating Room Technicians, Harrisburg, PA, February 1978

Seminar Leader: A dual focus behavioral science curriculum. Symposium of AP A Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 1978

Professional Affiliations

Association of Family and Conciliation Courts 1992-Present
Association For Conflict Resolution 2001-Present
Academy of Family Mediators – Practitioner Member 1985-2000
Pennsylvania Psychological Association – Fellow 1985-Present
American Psychological Association 1976-Present