Evidence-Informed Interventions for Court-Involved Families: Promoting Healthy Coping and Development - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190693231 ISBN 13: 9780190693237

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Evidence-Informed Interventions for Court-Involved Families provides a critical, research-informed analysis of the core factors to consider when developing child-centered approaches to therapy and other family interventions, both in formal treatment settings and in promoting healthy engagement with the other systems and activities critical to children's daily lives.

Addressing common problems, obstacles, and the backdrop of support needed from other professionals or the court, an international team of experts provide chapters covering a variety of service models and drawing on a wealth of relevant research on the legal context, central issues for treatment and other services, and specialized issues such as trauma, family violence, parent-child contact problems, and children with special needs. Offering extensive practical guidance for applying research, understanding its limitations, and matching service plans to families' needs, this book will be an essential resource for all mental health professionals evaluating or providing services to these families, and to the lawyers and judges seeking a better understanding of what works.

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About the Author

Lyn R. Greenberg, PhD, ABPP, provides parenting coordination, consultation, treatment and intervention services to court-involved children and families, as well as forensic expert and consultation services to attorneys and training/consultation services to mental health professionals. Speciality areas include interventions for complex child custody cases, including those involving children with special needs. She is a recipient of the AFCC Meyer Elkin's Award for this work. She served on the AFCC task force on Court Involved Therapists, co-edited the journal of Child Custody special issue on court-involved therapy, and has been recognized by the Society of Family Psychology for her work. She has been widely published on issues related to separation and divorce, child custody, ethics, child abuse, and treatment and other interventions for court involved and high conflict families. She presents and provides professional training both locally, nationally, and internationally.

Dr. Barbara J. Fidler, PhD, CPsych, AccFM, FDRP PC is a clinical developmental psychologist. She has worked with high conflict separation/divorce providing various dispute resolution services for over 34 years. She provides professional consultations and trainings to judges, lawyers, mediators and mental health professionals. Dr. Fidler is co-author of four books: two on child custody assessments and two on parent-child contact problems. She has authored many book chapters and journal articles, including three chapters in the recently published, Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation (2017). Dr. Fidler has been actively involved in the development and training of parenting coordination and sits on the AFCC Taskforce charged with updating the practice guidelines.

Michael A. Saini, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, and holds the endowed Factor-Inwentash Chair in Law and Social Work and the Co-Director of the Combined J.D. and M.S.W. program. He is a Board Member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, and an editorial board member for the Family Court Review and the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage. He provides risk management consultation for working with families involved in high conflict child custody disputes, he leads parent groups for separated families, he provides parent coaching, and for the past 18 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. He has over 100 publications, including books, book chapters, government reports, systematic reviews and peer-reviewed journal articles. His publications have focused on access to justice, child custody disputes, interparental conflict, intimate partner violence, alienation, cultural dynamics of separated families, supervised visitation, virtual visitation, child protection services and parent competencies post separation and divorce.

Review

"This is a superb and long awaited book. Treatment in the context of court involvement can buoy families in crisis, but the challenges of this work can thwart even seasoned therapists. In response, Greenberg, Fidler and Saini have gifted the field with this authoritative volume that provides readers with expert guidance and practical insight into how to make treatment work, how to mitigate risk, and how to think clinically at times of legal complexity."

-- Abigail M. Judge, PhD, Harvard Medical School

"This impressive volume brings together the voices of those professionals whose shared commitment to child-centered, systemically-informed, and data-driven assessment and intervention is shaping our field. I strongly recommend that every family law professional make Evidence-Informed Interventions for Court-Involved Families their go-to reference, road map and guidebook in all child-centered, court-involved matters."

-- Benjamin D. Garber, PhD, Family Law Consulting, PLLC

"The latest evidence and innovations in family court intervention written by an all-star collection of authors. This book belongs on the shelf of every family court professional."

-- Robert E. Emery, PhD, Center for Children, Families, and the Law, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia

"Family psychodynamics and interventions have ever been the square peg striving to fit in the round hole of the legal system. This book will be a boon to the family law judge who, required to do the right thing, is bound by the rules of evidence and the rule of law. These are often not amenable to ascertaining and fixing relationship problems that lie at the hearts of children and families of divorce. The authors employ evidentiary nexes to narrow the gap between our disciplines and provide specific tools to benefit families of divorce, equip family law professionals, and enlighten the finder of fact, that is, the family law judicial officer."

-- Judge Isabel R. Cohen (Retired)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0190693231
• ISBN 13: 9780190693237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Greenberg Lyn R., Fidler Barbara J., Saini Michael A.