A Handbook of Divorce and Custody - Forensic, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives (Hardcover, New)

A Handbook of Divorce and Custody brings together mental health professionals and forensic specialists dedicated to working in the legal arena with families in crisis. Section I provides the individual perspectives of experienced clinicians, all of whom share a psychodynamic and developmental purview, and supplements their accounts with the viewpoints of a lawyer and a judge. Section II examines parental psychopathology, which is often at the root of family conflict and turmoil. Section III deals with the nature and extent of the state's potential involvement with the family, from ensuring parents' rights to raise their children to identifying those circumstances that justify the termination of parental rights. The remaining three sections follow the progressive issues engaged by divorcing families as they work their way through the legal system: forensic evaluation (section IV); postdivorce legal arrangements (section V); and the emotional aftermath of divorce, including indications for various types of therapeutic intervention. issues that underlie - and complicate - the evaluatons, recommendations, and judicial determinations that enter into the divorce/custody process. Specifically, they focus on the inherent conflict between the family's right to privacy and the state's commitment to the best interest of children; the increasingly uncertain question of what constitutes a family and who has the right to legal standing; the problematic role of fathers in the lives of their children; the nature of the evaluation process and the role of the forensic expert in a good enough evaluation; the important differences between the role of therapist and the role of evaluator; and, finally, the impact of divorce itself on the lives of today's children. Comprehensive, substantive, and wonderfully readable, the Handbook is a model of balanced analysis of complicated issues and a wellspring of thoughtful advice. It will be foundational to all professionals obliged to contend with the dissolution and rebuilding of families.

General

Imprint:	Analytic Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	2002
Editors:	Linda Gunsberg • Paul Hymowitz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	436
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-88163-412-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-88163-412-3
Barcode:	9780881634129

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