Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations
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This reference aims to provide psychologists and other mental health professionals with detailed clinical guidelines for conducting child custody evaluations. It not only presents the professional literature as it applies to such cases, but also offers insights associated with the experience of having participated in over 1000 divorce-related cases during the past decade. The volume also covers issues such as the mechanics of psychological evaluation, report writing and court testimony.

Table of Contents:
Psychologist's Responsibilities; How Divorce Affects Families; Interviews, Behavioural Observations and Collateral Information; Psychological Testing; Ackerman-Schoendorf Scales for Parent Evaluation of Custody; Guidelines for Evaluating Parents' Behaviou; Abuse Allegations; Reporting the Results; Surviving Your Day in Court; Appendixes: A. Glossary of Legal Terms; B. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct; C. Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists; D. American Psychological Association Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations; E. Academy of Family Mediators Admission Criteria; F. American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children - Guidelines for Psychosocial Evaluation of Suspected Sexual Abuse in Young Children.

About the Author :
MARC J. ACKERMAN, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in the state of Wisconsin, who has been involved in more than one thousand family law cases throughout the United States. He is also the author of the Ackerman-Schoendorf Scale for Parent Evaluation of Custody, or ASPECT. He served as Director of Clinical Training at the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology from 1981 to 1989, and is now a full professor with that school. He is also co-director of North Shore Psychotherapy Associates, a private practice clinic in Milwaukee. Dr. Ackerman is President of the Wisconsin Psychological Association, is a past president of the Milwaukee Area Psychological Association, and was a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Clinical and Consulting Psychology from 1987 to 1991. His previous books include How to Examine Psychological Experts in Divorce and Other Civil Actions and Psychological Experts in Divorce, Personal Injury, and Other Civil Actions, Second Edition, both published by Wiley.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471052524
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471052523
  • Publisher Date: 21 Nov 1994
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 709 gr


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