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Dr. Stahl's Bio
Philip Stahl, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic) is a licensed psychologist who resides in
Maricopa County (Arizona). Dr. Stahl began his work in child guidance clinics in Michigan, while studying
for his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. It was there that he began to develop his interest in divorce.
His dissertation thesis was a study on attitudes and beliefs on joint custody. He received his doctorate in
1983. Soon thereafter, he began to do child custody evaluations for the Macomb County Courts and took mediation
training when mediation was just getting started as a service for divorcing families.
Dr. Stahl moved to California in 1987 and continued his work in the field of divorce. As an active member of the
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), he later joined the AFCC Board of Directors and became Chair
of AFCC's Custody Evaluation Committee. It was there that he began to develop his teaching style, presenting at
many workshops, institutes, and plenary sessions. He was on the Board of Directors and was Treasurer of the AFCC
California Chapter and is on the Editorial Review Board of AFCC's journal, Family Courts Review. He has
returned to the Board of Directors of AFCC.
In recent years, Dr. Stahl has continued to develop a clinical practice that included the following services:
In 2006, Dr. Stahl became a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and became Board Certified in
Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has received an appointment as adjunct
faculty member of the Arizona State University Department of Psychology. With his upcoming move to Central Arizona,
he will continue to perform custody evaluations, mediation, consultation, expert witness testifying, and teaching.
Dr. Stahl is a provider of continuing education for psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and attorneys. He continues to be a frequent presenter at meetings of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the American Psychological Association, and local meetings. Dr. Stahl has conducted trainings throughout the United States for child custody evaluators and others working with high-conflict families of divorce throughout the United States. In the last several years, Dr. Stahl has begun to teach judges. He is on the faculty of the National Judicial College and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. He has also taught judges at state sponsored training in Arizona, California, Virginia, Texas, Michigan, Florida, Utah, and Ohio. He continues to provide numerous workshops every year. Most recently, Dr. Stahl, along with several co-faculty, has developed and begun to teach a course titled Modern Divorce Advocacy through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Along with this, Dr. Stahl has written extensively on various issues in high-conflict divorce and custody evaluation. His articles have been on parental alienation, ethics, child custody evaluations, psychological testing, and high conflict. He is the author of Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide (Sage, 1994) and Complex Issues in Custody Evaluations (Sage, 1999). His newest book, Parenting After Divorce, was designed for parents and has was published by Impact Publishers in 2000.
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