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• Child Abuse Allegations Should Involve More Comprehensive Information Gathering
• Psychologists Take Controversial Stand on Gender and Custody
• How to Identify Alienating Parents
• How Children Cope when their Single Moms Work
• Which Parents are Likely to Abduct Their Own Children?

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• Experts Criticize Custody Evaluations
• A Major Family Researcher Speaks Out on the Effects of Divorce on Children
• How Visiting Dads Contribute to Their Children's Well Being
• When Therapeutic and Forensic Roles Conflict
• When Children Report Being Abused

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• Important Factors for Access and Visitation Schedules
• How Step Families Adjust
• How Single Mothers Cope After Divorce
• Battered Women as Parents
• The Affects of Domestic Violence on Children
• Gays and Lesbians Can Parent Just as Effectively as Heterosexuals

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• What Evaluators Think is Important in Custody Evaluations
• Witnessing Family Violence Traumatizes Children
• Do Dads Continue to Support Their Children When They Remarry?
• Children's Relationships with Their Parents After Divorce
• Risk Assessment in Relocation Cases
• Is There a Helpful Role for Supervised Visitation?

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• Small Children Benefit From Over-Night Visitation
• Some Psychological Tests Lack Reliability
• The Believability of Child Sexual Abuse Reports
• The Effectiveness of Custodial Grandmothers?
• Spousal Abuse Can Also Mean Child Abuse

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• Effects of Divorce on Young Children
• When Mothers and Daughters are Too Close
• Assessing Children's Needs
• Fathers' Involvement With Their Children After Divorce
• Child Custody Litigants Are Normal People
• How Children Reveal Sexual Abuse

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• The Scope of Custody Evaluations
• Overnight Visits for Young Children
• The Effects of Early Separation on Children
• Humiliation Affects Mental Health
• Divorce May Have Long Term Effects on Children
• Confusing Questions Reduce Witness Accuracy

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• Defining Child Sexual Abuse
• The Accuracy of Interviewer Recollections of Child Sex Abuse Interviews
• Drawings Do Not Help Identify Child Sexual Abuse
• Projective Testing Does Not Reliably Detect Child Sexual Abuse
• Evaluating Child Sexual Abuse Interviews
• A Model for Child Sexual Abuse Interviews

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• What Psychological Evaluations Should Contain
• Mothers' Depression and Parenting
• Children's Views of Divorce Are Important
• Children Are Harmed By Family Violence in Different Ways
• Using the MCMI-III In Family Law Matters
• Expert Testimony in the Wake of Daubert

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• Stepfathers are Important
• Therapy for Children of Divorce
• Joint versus Sole Custody
• The Quality of Child Protection Evaluations
• How Judges Evaluate Scientific Testimony
• How Well Do Mothers Rate Their Own Parenting Skills?

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• What Child Custody Evaluators Do
• What Happens to Complaints Against Child Custody Evaluators
• Mediation Helps
• A New Look at Parental Alienation
• Using the Rorshach in Child Custody Evaluations
• Prior Abuse Affects Children's Memory

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• Ethical Issues in Assessment
• The Danger of Asking Child Witnesses to Speculate
• An Update On The Effects of Divorce on Children
• Using Risk Assessment to Evaluate Domestic Violence
• Gardner on Parental Alienation
• Parents Can Influence a Child’s Report of Abuse

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• Training Investigators to do Sex Abuse Interviews Doesn't Improve Interviews
• The Perceptions of Ex-Spouses Satisfaction with Each Other's Parenting Skills
• More Problems for the Rorschach
• Stalking Causes Harm to Victims
• Ethnicity Is Related to How Children Cope with Sexual Abuse
• Judges Do Not Understand Daubert Criteria

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• Battered Women Should Be Screened for Brain Damage
• Some Stalkers Are More Dangerous Than Others
• Battered Women Return to Their Abusers
• Children's Well-Being is Related to Their Mothers' Satisfaction
• Parental Alienation Syndrome Attacked Again
• Children Are Better Adjusted When Parents Have Joint Custody

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• The MMPI-2 Is Consistent Over Time
• Ranking the Credibility of Collateral Sources
• Fathers' Love is Important
• Wife Abuse is Dangerous for Children
• An Expanded View of Child Abuse
• The Misdiagnosis of PAS

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• Children May Lie
• Joking May Mean Violence
• How Child Abuse Victims See Their Own Experiences
• Coaching for the MMPI-2 Does Not Work
• Child Protection Investigations May Also Be Therapeutic
• Children Generally Adjust to Divorce

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• Children who Exhibit Sexually Inappropriate Behavior May Not All Have Been Abused
• Those Who Leave First Adjust Better To Divorce
• Teens Should Live With The Parent They Are Closer To
• Experience Counts When it Comes to Diagnosis
• Detecting Faking On The MMPI-2 Is Still a Problem
• Using Projective Tests In Forensic Settings Is Questioned

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• American Law Institute Issues the Approximation Rule
• Gays and Lesbians Raise Healthy Children
• All Child Molesters Are Not Alike
• Witnessing Domestic Violence Harms Children
• Children of Divorce Do Better When They Can See Their Grandparents
• Post Divorce Disruption Is Not Good for Teens

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• Some Factors Help Teens Cope with Divorce
• Summaries of Children's Testimony Are More Believable
• MMPI-2 Withstands Scrutiny
• Custody Evaluations Adhere to Guidelines
• MCMI-III Withstands Admissibility Standards
• Most Evaluators Follow Guidelines

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• Children Who Are not Abused Exhibit Sexual Behavior
• Treatment Helps Some Children Of Divorce
• Childhood Abuse Predicts Adult Behavior
• The Rorschach Scoring System Is Consistent
• More Children Are Exposed to Marital Conflict
• Parental Monitoring Help Kids Behave

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• Are Parents Satisfied After Divorce?
• Witnessing Inter-Parental Verbal Aggression is Harmful to Children
• Parents Cannot Treat Their Children Equally
• How Women Manage to Leave Abusive Relationships
• Science Shows That Fathers Are Important
• Some Children Do Not Do Better When Moms Remarry

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• The Science of Parent-Child Observations
• The MMPI - 2 Can Detect Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Lesbians Raise Healthy Kids
• Expert Witnesses Can Be Ethical
• Biology Matters, But Less Than We Thought
• Lawyers Are Counselors Too

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• Child Sexual Abuse Can Have Long Term Effects
• Indirect Influences on Children's Adjustment to Divorce
• The Validity of Human Figure Drawings is Questioned
• Children Do Not Need Leading Questions to Recount Their Experiences
• When Young Children Relocate
• Relocation is Not Good for Children

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• The Mentally Ill May be Competent Parents
• Brain Injury is a Risk for Abused Women
• Child Custody Evaluators Screen for Domestic Violence
• Gender Matters in Child Sexual Abuse Allegation Interviews
• A New Look at Parental Alienation
• Children are Not Equally Affected by Family Conflict

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• Differing Views on Children's Adjustment to Divorce
• Reconciling Divergent Perspectives: Judith Wallerstein, Quantitative Family Research, and Children of Divorce
• Adult Children and Their fathers: Relationship Changes 20 Years After Parental Divorce
• Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives
• Listening to Children of Divorce: New Findings that Diverge from Wallerstein, Lewis, and Blakeslee
• Critical Aspects of Parenting Plans for Young Children: Interjecting Data into the Debate About Overnights.

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• Surprising Findings Regarding Psychological Aggression Toward Children
• Reconsidering the Use of The MCMI-III
• Using Drawings to Assist in Children's Eyewitness Testimony
• Parental Thinking Influences Child Abuse
• Children Should Have a Voice in Custodial/Visitation Decision Making
• Standards Proposed for CCEs

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• Child Sexual Abuse Interview Procedures Proposed for Improving Child Interviews in CCEs
• Sharing Sensitive Adult Information Harms Children
• Innocuous Touch Does Not Compromise Children's Reports
• Stepfathers Play Important Roles
• Grandmothers Have Influence on Father's Involvement with Their Children
• Test Taking Attitude Matters on the MMPI

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• Domestic Violence is Viewed In a New Light
• Race/Ethnicity Makes A Difference in Nonresident Father Involvement
• Alcoholics Anonymous Helps
• Large Percentage of Battered Women Suffer Brain Injury
• Domestic Violence Predicts Certain Adolescent Aggression
• The Role of Fathers is Important

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• Should Lawyers Coach Their Clients?
• Some Tests Pass Daubert Muster
• Intellectually Challenged Children Can Be Accurate Reporters
• Trauma and Depression Affect Parenting
• Men Underreport Domestic Violence
• Children Can Be Accurate Reporters Even When Told to Lie

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• The Controversy Regarding PAS Continues
• Parental Alienation is Put to the Test
• Maternal Abuse Has Serious Effects
• When One Hurts, All Hurt
• Criticism Leads to Great Uncooperativeness in Children
• Sports Foster Self-Esteem in Teen Girls

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• Marriages Are Adversely Affected by Parental Conflict
• A Decision Tree for Evaluating Alienation and Abuse
• The Affect of Father's' Depression on Children
• Mediation Can Be Helpful in Cases of Domestic Violence
• It's Not Always the Parents
• Do Custody Evaluations Overreach?

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• Wallerstein Claims Divorce Effects Persist in Adulthood
• An Initial Attempt to Measure "Chaos"
• Support for The Bricklin Scales Claimed
• Parents Complain of Insufficient Time with Their Children
• Parental Conflict May Lead to Violence in Teens
• Noncustodial Mothers and Fathers Compared

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• An Inter-Rater Reliability Study of Parental Alienation Syndrome
• Support for the Bricklin Scales Claimed [Part II]
• Positive Self-Presentation on Psychological Tests in Termination Cases
• Parental Permission for Children's Therapy Examined
• Having More Children Affects Parenting Time
• Judges Rely on General Acceptance

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• The Approximation Rule Does Not Consider Attachment Relationships
• Parental Involvement Makes a Difference in Custody Decisions
• Researchers Look at the Effect of Internet Pornography on Parenting
• Research Supports the Use of Mediation
• Ethnicity Is a Factor in Post Divorce Relationships with Children
• Improving the Accuracy of Decision Making in CSA Allegations

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• How Attorneys Can Distinguish Domestic Violence From the Effects of High Conflict Divorce

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• The Empirical Bases of Parental Alienation Syndrome

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• Psychological Issues in Relocation Cases

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• The Scientific Basis of Divorce Mediation: What We Know and What We Don't Know

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• The Role and Function of Psychologists in Custody and Access Evaluations

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• The Treating Expert in Family Law Matters

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• Sources of Bias in Decision Making: Implications for Forensic Evaluations

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• Children's Memory in the Forensic Context

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• Examining the Capabilities and Limitations of Child Witnesses with Disabilities

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• A Crash Course in Attachment Theory for Family Law Professionals

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• The Controversy Concerning the Rorschach Inkblot Test

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• Unique Contributions of Fatherhood to Children's Development

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• The Use of Anatomically Detailed Dolls in Forensic Interviews

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• Parental Competency to Consent in Child Protection Proceedings

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• Lesbian and Gay-Headed Families in the Legal Context: What Are the Issues?

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• Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol Use: The Role of Drinking in Partner Violence and Implications for Intervention

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• Representing Children and their Interests in Family Court Proceedings

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• Sexual Abuse Allegations in Custody Disputes

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• Small Amounts of Substance Use, Human Judgment and Parenting