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The 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, post-divorce legal arrangements,
and the emotional aftermath of divorce, including indications for
various types of therapeutic intervention. Through the Handbook,
contributors pay special attention to a set of core issues that
underlie - and complicate - the evaluations, 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.
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.
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those
who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children
home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is
preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told
in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the
impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how
their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life,
and what shadows might have fallen between the dream and the
reality. And we learn from the children the many ways that being
adopted shaped their development, their sense of identity; what
went wrong along the way and how we may help. Clinical work with
parents and children as well as with adults who were adopted is the
focus of Understanding Adoption. Because adoption has become widely
practiced, accepted, and accessible, and because it has greatly
changed the composition of families, it is a timely subject for
study. The authors of this book undertake exploration of this
important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and
resilience of human bonds.
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those
who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children
home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is
preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told
in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the
impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how
their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life,
and what shadows might have fallen between the dream and the
reality. And we learn from the children the many ways that being
adopted shaped their development, their sense of identity; what
went wrong along the way and how we may help. Clinical work with
parents and children as well as with adults who were adopted is the
focus of Understanding Adoption. Because adoption has become widely
practiced, accepted, and accessible, and because it has greatly
changed the composition of families, it is a timely subject for
study. The authors of this book undertake exploration of this
important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and
resilience of human bonds.
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