Information about Forensic Psychology Services for Family Court: 

• Overview of Family Court Evaluations
• Child Custody Evaluations by Donald J. Franklin, Ph.D.
• New Research on Alienated Children by Daniel H. Swerdlow-Freed, Ph.D.
• Visitation Risk Assessment
• Grandparent Visitation
• Parental Mediation
• My Family and Me: How Can Therapeutic Mediation Help Us? A FABLE
  by Ronald G. Silikovitz, Ph.D.
• Child Abuse Evaluations
• Termination of Parental Rights
• Adoption Readiness Evaluations
• Psychotherapy and Counseling for Family court issues

Psychologists also provide evaluation and consulting services for family court matters that overlap with criminal court.  Included are child abuse investigations leading to criminal charges, domestic violence evaluations, assessment and counseling of individuals who violate restraining orders, juvenile waiver evaluations, evaluating the credibility of child witnesses, evaluations of juveniles accused of criminal acts, juvenile pre-sentencing evaluations, juvenile probation evaluations, and counseling juveniles on probation . These psychological consulting services are described in the Criminal Court section of this website.

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