This practical volume delineates legal and clinical guidelines for practitioners involved as expert witnesses in parental rights cases. Coverage of relevant statutes, case law, and professional standards is integrated with current psychological theory and research to help readers conduct defensible, scientifically based consultation and testimony.
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"This book represents a major contribution to both the legal and psychological literature. Dyer provides a substantive basis for effective mental health testimony, while maintaining an appropriate focus on the promotion of the child's needs and interests in the litigation process. This is a book that should be read and kept at hand by all attorneys and mental health professionals involved in termination of parental rights cases." --James B. Boskey, JD, LLM, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
"Dyer presents a firm yet compassionate approach to providing psychological consultation in cases that are among the most difficult for mental health professionals. This much needed addition to the literature will provide practitioners, as well as lawyers, judges, case workers, and other professionals, with clear direction and guidance. It is written by a clinician with vast experience and keen insight into the complexities of termination cases." --Joseph T. McCann, PsyD, JD
"This book sets a standard for excellence in the breadth and depth of current knowledge that it conveys. It provides a model for the integration of scientific and clinical research and clinical practice in the forensic arena. For the beginner, it provides an orientation to the historical, political, institutional, legal, and ethical contexts in which child placement decisions are made. For the expert, it provides an in-depth analysis of theoretical issues and dilemmas. This book should be mandatory reading for mental health experts, attorneys, and judges responsible for decisions to terminate parental rights; clinicians responsible for treating the children in such cases; graduate school students in clinical training; and researchers in the field. It is likely to become a classic in the field." --Madelyn Simring Milchman, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
"Dyer presents a firm yet compassionate approach to providing psychological consultation in cases that are among the most difficult for mental health professionals. This much needed addition to the literature will provide practitioners, as well as lawyers, judges, case workers, and other professionals, with clear direction and guidance. It is written by a clinician with vast experience and keen insight into the complexities of termination cases." --Joseph T. McCann, PsyD, JD
"This book sets a standard for excellence in the breadth and depth of current knowledge that it conveys. It provides a model for the integration of scientific and clinical research and clinical practice in the forensic arena. For the beginner, it provides an orientation to the historical, political, institutional, legal, and ethical contexts in which child placement decisions are made. For the expert, it provides an in-depth analysis of theoretical issues and dilemmas. This book should be mandatory reading for mental health experts, attorneys, and judges responsible for decisions to terminate parental rights; clinicians responsible for treating the children in such cases; graduate school students in clinical training; and researchers in the field. It is likely to become a classic in the field." --Madelyn Simring Milchman, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
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ALSO FROM FRANK J. DYER Forensic Assessment with the Millon Inventories (Joseph T. McCann and Frank J. Dyer) "A thorough and well-researched, yet highly readable and practical volume, this book will help make the Millon Inventories part of every forensic clinician's battery of psychological tests." Charles Patrick Ewing, JD, PhD
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This is a most helpful book. Any professional doing parenting evaluations should have this book in their library, even if it IS more than 10 years old..Bruce Borkosky
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The filing of an action to terminate the rights of a birth parent to a child is the culmination of a lengthy process that is governed by statute, case law, and public policy considerations at every stage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reasonable psychological certainty, parental love objects, guardianship complaint, bonding assessments, parenting contest, foster caretakers, preadoptive parents, ultimate legal issue, older foster children, parental rights cases, attachment profile, examining psychologist, state child protective services, child protection matters, more prejudicial than probative, trauma bond, enduring harm, parental unfitness, transracial adoptees, psychological parent, birth parents, specific referral questions, termination cases, termination hearing, governing termination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Jersey, African American, Daniel Schmidt, Baby Jessica, New York, American Psychological Association, United States Supreme Court, Cara Clausen, Comprehensive System, Federal Rules of Evidence, Bender Gestalt Test, Ethical Principles, Model Statute, West Virginia, Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals, New Mexico, The Blancks, Verbal Scale, National Association of Black Social Workers, Peach Street, Scott Seefeldt, Strange Situation New!
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The filing of an action to terminate the rights of a birth parent to a child is the culmination of a lengthy process that is governed by statute, case law, and public policy considerations at every stage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reasonable psychological certainty, parental love objects, guardianship complaint, bonding assessments, parenting contest, foster caretakers, preadoptive parents, ultimate legal issue, older foster children, parental rights cases, attachment profile, examining psychologist, state child protective services, child protection matters, more prejudicial than probative, trauma bond, enduring harm, parental unfitness, transracial adoptees, psychological parent, birth parents, specific referral questions, termination cases, termination hearing, governing termination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Jersey, African American, Daniel Schmidt, Baby Jessica, New York, American Psychological Association, United States Supreme Court, Cara Clausen, Comprehensive System, Federal Rules of Evidence, Bender Gestalt Test, Ethical Principles, Model Statute, West Virginia, Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals, New Mexico, The Blancks, Verbal Scale, National Association of Black Social Workers, Peach Street, Scott Seefeldt, Strange Situation New!
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- Federal Rules of Evidence by United States on 4 pages
- Maternal Care & Mental Health (Master Work) by John Bowlby on page 152, and page 201
- Child Care and the Growth ofLlove (Pelican) by John Bowlby on page 152, and page 201
- West Virginia (The States and the Nation series) by J.A. Williams in Back Matter
- Beyond the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein on page 171
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