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A Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations: Mental Health and Legal Perspectives
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Whether assessing general family functioning or specific areas of conflict, professionals ordering, conducting, or reviewing child custody evaluations require sound knowledge of three interrelated fields: up-todate legal issues, psychological findings, and forensic procedures. A Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations covers these three essential areas to walk readers through the evaluation process clearly and concisely. This unique interdisciplinary book emphasizes professional ethics, children’s psychological well-being, and clear communication among all parties as keys to resolving disputes with efficiency and thoroughness, and minimizing the chances of children and their families getting lost in red tape.
Among the Guide’s features: • Legal standards for custody evaluations and recommendations. • Procedures for conducting custody evaluations, with the latest data on psychological testing, interviewing children, and home observations. • Guidelines for writing: evaluation reports, orders for evaluations, parenting plans. • Legal and ethical standards for critiquing evaluation reports. • Current legal and research-based information on special issues, including alternative family arrangements, medical problems, child sexual abuse, estrangement, and parental abduction. • Reference and resource sections provide additional support. • Companion CD includes dozens of forms, checklists, letters, and other documents ready to download, customize, and print.
The Guide’s interdisciplinary approach will be of invaluable aid to forensic mental health professionals in conducting evaluations and communicating results, family and probate judges in ordering and assessing custody evaluations, and family attorneys in deciding how to approach various aspects of the family situation, whether to request a custody evaluation, and how to proceed after the custody evaluation is done.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 361
EAN: 9780387718934
ISBN: 0387718931
Label: Springer
Manufacturer: Springer
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 702
Publication Date: 2007-12-18
Publisher: Springer
Studio: Springer
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• The Art and Science of Child Custody Evaluations
• Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations
• Child Custody A to Z: Winning with Evidence
• Psychological Testing In Child Custody Evaluations
• Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Third Edition: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Not the real world. -
There are many problems with this book when parents are trying to use it.
Just going through some of the Guide's features:
Each evaluator uses their own standards for custody evaluations and recommendations. Procedures for conducting custody evaluations vary from evaluator to evaluator.
Most evaluators don't use the latest data on psychological testing.
Evaluators often ask questions to get the answers they want when interviewing children.
Most evaluators don't have the time to do home observations.
Most evaluation reports, orders for evaluations, parenting plans are misspelled and full of hearsay. No one critiques evaluation reports.
Each jurisdiction uses its own precedents on special issues, including alternative family arrangements, medical problems, child sexual abuse, estrangement, and parental abduction.
Parent's will be mislead by "how things are supposed to be done"
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This book was a great find! Provides very comprehensive information on conducting an evaluation, more than many of the other texts out there. The CD with sample forms was particularly helpful. We've already printed out many of them to use in our practice. This will be one of my mainstays in conducting work for families and the court.
Indispensable Book -
"A Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations" is outstanding! It does it all. This is the book for you if you are: 1. just getting involved with child custody cases or have dealt with these cases for years, 2. appointed by courts to do a custody evaluations, 3. an attorney involved in divorce cases where child custody is involved, 4. a judge dealing with these cases, 5. a litigant, or 6. in any school situation that deals with students and their parents in conflicts over the custody of their children. Dr. Joanna Rohrbaugh clearly sets out the roles each participant plays--judge, attorney, parent, evaluator-- in these disputes and makes clear each participant's obligations both legally and ethically. The language Dr. Rohrbaugh uses is clear as a bell and avoids legalese. If you click on the "Search inside this Book" to the left top of the listing page, you can download the first chapter and see how readable the text is. I found the book to be user friendly, and it comes with a CD with all sorts of useful down-loadable forms.
"A Comprehensive Guide" is just that, comprehensive. Every subject you can imagine is here. The book is well documented using the latest statistics as well as a vast reading list for anyone needing more information on any particular subject. Again, click on "Search inside this Book" and you will see the extensive Table of Contents and the index. All through the book, Rohrbaugh uses "boxes" with bullet points to make information immediately understandable (you can see one on page 23 of the Introduction).
The text helps you every step of the way. For instance, one difficult part of these cases is knowing where to begin. Chapter 12, "Conducting and Reviewing Evaluations," for example, starts with an explanation as to how to screen referrals from the first phone call an evaluator receives from the court. All the information then is summarized in Box 42 by bullets such as this partial example:
*Conflict of interest?
*Attorneys--character, competence, professional style
*Private case--ability to pay? Need for adjusted rates?
*State-pay case--sufficient hours pre-approved?
The steps Dr. Rohrbaugh takes you through and the types of issues you need to consider, are so detailed that a review like this can hardly scratch the surface. What you will find, as you study the book, is that she touches on nearly everything you need to consider in evaluating a child's home situation and makes clear how to write the evaulation, how to communicate with other professionals involved with the case, how to deal with diversity in family structures, how to deal with mental illness in parents, etc. I might mention, too, that Dr. Rohrbaugh lists the various types of payment an evaluator receives...she is very explicit which is a great help!
In many ways, the best part about this book is the clarity Dr. Rohrbaugh brings to the highly complex world of custody battles. She explains the "how to," but her narrative also explains the "why" and untangles for us how the courts and custody battles got to where they are. Dr. Rohrbaugh's common sense approach along with her deep expertise in the field, makes this book a necessity to anyone involved in court ordered child custody cases.
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