Via the liz library Index: Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Index: Therapeutic JurisprudenceThis section of the website contains current public material from on-going research being conducted around the United States and in Canada by various scholars and organizations who are sharing findings, as well as links to articles and off-site locations on the issue of the harmful use of psychology and psychological theories in the family court systems. Therapeutic jurisprudence in the family courts, i.e. a "mental health approach to the law" substitutes the opinions of mental health practitioners for traditional evidence and decision-making procedures. Because these persons actually do not have any kind of "expertise" to opine this way, what originally was thought to be a helpful idea (in this medicalized and psychologized world) has become merely economic opportunism, harming not only the litigants and children in the system as well as the court system itself, but also perverting substantive and procedural law. It is not science, but compensated yenta-ism that has permeated the courts under the pretexts that engineering family affectional relationships is within the ability of mental health "science" practitioners to accomplish, and that this is an appropriate goal of the government, court system, and state police power because children "need" something it has to offer. See additional comments on this index page here. If you are interested in activism, helping with research in your state, or contributing articles or materials on "therapeutic jurisprudence" contact cce-research@argate.net

Are Psychologists Hiding Evidence? A Need for Reform by Lees-Haley and Courtney SCHOLAR

Child sex abuse, the limits of Loftus, and overblowing the memory research LIZNOTES, CITES

Children's Associational Rights: Why less is more by Emily Buss PDFSCHOLAR

Collaborative Law: What's Wrong with Multidisciplinary Practice? by liz

Court-appointed Parenting Evaluators: The Case for Abolition by Margaret Dore PDF SCHOLAR

Custody evaluators' arguments about test records -- and why they're wrong

Custody Evaluations: Ten Signs of Questionable Practices by Joel V. Klass, M.D. SCHOLAR

Disciplining Divorcing Parents: Social Construction of Parental Alienation by F. Besset PDF SCHOLAR

Family Court is Not a Family-Friendly Place by Lisa Marie Macci, Esq.

Guardians ad Litem in Custody Litigation: The Case for Abolition by Richard Ducote PDF SCHOLAR

Parental Alienation Syndrome -- getting it wrong in child custody casesby Carol S. Bruch PDF SCHOLAR

Parenting Coordination Issues by liz

Psychology in Court: A Trial Within a Trial by liz

Psychology in Court: The Detectives by liz

Psychology in Court:The Diagnosticians by liz

Psychology in Court: Discovery of Test Data by liz

Psychology in Court: How to Respond to the MMPI-2 by liz

Reevaluating the Evaluators (overview of the problem) by lizCITATIONS TO RESEARCH    Custody Evaluator Quotes by liz (companion to above article)

Socialization, Personality Development, and the Child's Environmentsby Judith Rich Harris SCHOLAR

Sound Research or Wishful Thinking in Custody Cases? by Carol S. Bruch PDF SCHOLAR

Troubling Admission of Supervised Visitation Records in Court by Stern/Oehme PDF SCHOLAR

What Does the Guardian ad Litem do in Family Court? by liz

Warren Farrell Does a Custody Evaluation by liz

What's Wrong with Parenting Coordination by liz

Why "Therapeutic Jurisprudence" Must Be Eliminated From Our Family Courts by liz

Why "Therapeutic Jurisprudence" Must Be Eliminated From Our Courtsby liz (pub. version)

Critical Assessment of Child Custody Evaluations by Emery, Otto, Donohue off-sitePDF SCHOLAR