Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family Court

Description: Parenting Plan Evaluations has become the go-to source for the most current empirical evidence in the field of child custody disputes. Fully updated in this Second Edition, the volume continues its focus on translating and implementing research associated with the most important topics within the family court. It presents an organized and in-depth analysis of the latest research and offers specific recommendations for applying these findings to the issues in child custody disputes. Leslie Drozd, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and marriage, family, and child therapist specializing in family violence, substance abuse, resistance to contact, trauma, and consultations in parenting plan and child custody evaluations. She trains judges, attorneys, and mental health professionals and has a myriad of professional publications.; Michael Saini, PhD, is Associate Professor and endowed chair of Law and Social Work at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. He is the Co-Director of the Combined J.D. and M.S.W. program with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and the Course Director of the 40-hour Foundations to Custody Evaluations with the faculty's Continuing Education Program. For the past 15 years, he has been conducting custody evaluations and assisting children's counsel for the Office of the Children's Lawyer, Ministry of the Attorney General in Ontario.; Nancy Olesen, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, doing assessment and psychotherapy, specializing in issues affecting divorcing families and providing expert testimony for family courts as well as teaching judges, attorneys, and mental health professionals about these issues and the parameters of competent practice in family court. Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; Contributors; Section 1: Social Science Evidence and the Law; Chapter 1 Scientific and Professional Knowledge For Family Court: Legal Expectations of Experts; Jonathan W. Gould, Milfred D. Dale, Nicki Beth Fisher, and Madeline R. Gould; Section 2: Foundation of Personality Development: Parent Insightfulness; Chapter 2 Parents' Insightfulness: The Importance of Keeping the Inner World of the Child in Mind for Parenting Plan Evaluations; David Oppenheim and Nina Koren-Karie; Section 3: Factors Associated with Children's Adjustment to Parent's Separation & Time-Sharing; Chapter 3 How Do Parenting Time and Inter-parental Conflict Affect the Relations of Quality of Parenting and Child Well-being Following Divorce?; Nicole E. Mahrer, Irwin Sandler, Sharlene Wolchik, Emily B. Winslow, John A. Moran, and David Weinstock; Chapter 4 Father-Child Relationships: The Missing Link between Parenting Time and Children's Mental and Physical Health; William V. Fabricius, Karina R. Sokol, Priscila Diaz, and Sanford L. Braver; Chapter 5 Supporting Father Involvement in the Context of Separation and Divorce; Marsha Kline Pruett, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Philip A. Cowan, Lisa Pradhan, Sarah Robins, and Kyle Pruett; Chapter 6 Shared?Time Parenting: Evaluating the Evidence of Risks and Benefits to Children; Bruce M. Smyth, Jennifer E. McIntosh, Robert E. Emery, and Shelby L. Higgs Howarth; Chapter 7 Critical Analysis of Research on Parenting Plans and Children's Well-Being; Michael E. Lamb; Section 4: Children's Disorders That Requires Specialized Parenting; Chapter 8 Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Parental Separation and Divorce; Rachel Birnbaum, Lucyna M. Lach, and Donald T. Saposnek; Chapter 9 Co-Parenting Children with Attention-nDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Suzanne E.U. Kerns and Ronald J. Prinz; Section 5: Complex Special Issues Affecting Parenting & the Stability: Parent-Child Relationship; Chapter 10 Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse in Parenting Plan Evaluations: Assessing Children's Memory and Behavior; Kathryn Kuehnle, Pamela S. Ludolph, and Sonja P. Brubacher; Chapter 11 Gatekeeping After Separation and Divorce; Larry Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Ashton Chapman; Chapter 12 Intimate Partner Violence and Child Custody; Fernanda S. Rossi, Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, and Brittany N. Rudd; Chapter 13 Empirical Studies of Alienation; Michael Saini, Janet R. Johnston, Barbara Jo Fidler, and Nicholas Bala; Chapter 14 Relocation, Research, and Child Custody Disputes; Patrick Parkinson, Nicola Taylor, Judith Cashmore, and William G. Austin; ; Section 6: Cultural and Political Issues; Chapter 15 Cultural Dynamics of Divorce and Parenting; Gitu Bhatia and Michael Saini; Chapter 16 Never Married Parents in Family Court; Liza Cohen Hita and Sanford L. Braver ; Chapter 17 Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children: Research Relevant to Custody Cases; Suzanne M. Johnson, Elizabeth O'Connor, and Samantha L. Tornello; Section 7 Research Applied to Practice ; Chapter 18 Considerations for Step-Up Planning: When and How to Determine the Right Time; Marsha Kline Pruett, Robin M. Deutsch, and Leslie Drozd; Chapter 19 Putting It All Together: Effective Intervention Planning for Children and Families; Lyn Greenberg and Jay Lebow; Index

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