Parenting Evaluations for the Court Care and Protection Matters /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Condie, Lois Oberlander. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
• Series: Perspectives in Law & Psychology, 18
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Law and Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

In recent decades, courts have turned increasingly to mental health professionals to assist them in evaluating the many factors that are relevant to laws concerning the care and protection of children and termination of parental rights. At the same time, the legal system has challenged the role of e...

Table of Contents:

• to Care and Protection Evaluations
• Parental Rights, ChildrenỚ"s Rights, and State Intervention
• Framing Referral Questions
• The Psychology of Parenting
• Multicultural Issues and Nontraditional Families
• The Etiology and Impact of Child Maltreatment
• Developmental Perspectives on Children in Need of Care and Protection
• Evaluation Methodology
• Data Integration and Interpretation.