Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide
written by Philip M. Stahl, a private practice psychologist who imparts expert witness testimony and conducts child custody evaluations. Among other accomplishments he provides continuing education classes for mental health providers, as well as psychologists, Family Law Specialists and attorneys in California. He also conducts training seminars throughout the United States and abroad for those who work with high conflict families. In addition, Mr. Stahl helped a task force draft AFCC’s “Model Standards of Practice for Child Custody Evaluation”, has presented workshops for many of our country’s judges, frequently presents programs for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and is on the National Judicial College faculty. Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide can prepare you for what you might be up against with an evaluation in trying to win custody of your children.
Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide Buyer Quotes
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“if you are going to have a child custody matter you better read this book!!! read what they look for before you have an evaluation, be prepared!”
A Guide to the Perplexed
“A surprisingly fresh and impressively comprehensive guide to the convoluted process of custody evaluations. The need for these court-mandated evaluations arises when one of the parents – often, the father – is a repeat offender, an abuser.
Abusers are thought by practitioners of psychology to be emotionally disturbed, the twisted outcomes of a history of familial violence and childhood traumas. They are typically diagnosed as suffering from a personality disorder, an inordinately low self-esteem, or codependence coupled with an all-devouring fear of abandonment. Consummate abusers use the right vocabulary and feign the appropriate “emotions” and affect and, thus, sway the evaluator’s judgment.
As Lundy Bancroft correctly observes, Confronted with this contrast between a polished, self-controlled, and suave abuser and his harried casualties – it is easy to reach the conclusion that the real victim is the abuser, or that both parties abuse each other equally. The prey’s acts of self-defense, assertiveness, or insistence on her rights are interpreted as aggression, lability, or a mental health problem.
The book draws attention to these pitfalls and provides a through description of the system and its protagonists. Sam Vaknin, author of “Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited”.”
Overall rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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