Child Custody and Domestic Violence
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Child Custody and Domestic Violence

A Call for Safety and Accountability

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Child Custody and Domestic Violence

A Call for Safety and Accountability

About this book

Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. Jaffe, Lemon, and Poisson integrate the most recent clinical and legal issues in the field in considering the prevalence of divorce and domestic violence as well as the relevance of domestic violence in custody disputes. The authors outline the essential differences between custody disputes with and without allegations and findings of domestic violence, and the different analysis and distinct interventions by judges, policymakers, and mental health professionals necessary in domestic violence cases.

Key Features:

  • Addresses difficult issues such as parent alienation syndrome, false allegations, and mutual abuse
  • Reviews recent legislation and guidelines in custody disputes involving domestic violence in four countries: the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
  • Outlines significant judicial decisions in custody disputes, highlighting the inconsistency and unpredictability of the decisions and their impact on the desired outcome
  • Offers recommendations for legislative improvements, increased training for legal and mental health professionals, enhanced services and programs, and the development of new policies to deal with domestic violence in custody disputes

Legal and mental health professionals who provide services to divorcing parents will find this a much-needed reference, as will anyone whose life has been affected by child custody disputes and domestic violence.

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Yes, you can access Child Custody and Domestic Violence by Peter G. Jaffe,Nancy K. D. Lemon,Samantha E. Poisson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psicologia & Relazioni interpersonali in psicologia. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. 1 - Why Domestic Violence Is Relevant in Child-Custody Disputes
  5. 2 - Assessing Safety and Responsibility in Child-Custody Disputes
  6. 3 - Changing Legislation and Legal Practice to Recognize Domestic Violence in Child-Custody Proceedings
  7. 4 - From Theory to Practice
  8. 5 - A Framework for Actionby Courts and Communities to Recognize the Plight of Abused Victims and Their Children After Separation
  9. References
  10. Index
  11. About the Authors