Arnold Terry Shienvold, PhD
Forensic Psychological Associates
111 Presidential Boulevard, Suite 153
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004
610-255-7520
ARNOLD SHIENVOLD, PhD CERTIFICATIONS
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