Child Custody Litigation
A Guide for Parents and Mental Health Professionals

© Creative Therapeutics, Inc.

 

CHAPTERS HEADINGS:

1. Historical considerations
   • The adversary system as applied to divorce/custody litigation: p.5
2. The basic ways in which protracted custody litigation causes psychiatric disturbances: p.17
   • Impotent rage: p.27
   • Communication impairments: p.33
3. The most common forms of psychiatric disturbance produced in parents by protracted litigation: p.39
   • Depression: p.39
   • Paranoia: p.44
   • Alcohol and drug abuse: p.56
   • Personality disorders: p.63
4. The most common forms of psychiatric disturbance produced in children by prolonged custody litigation: p.68
   • Antisocial behavior: p.68
   • The parental alienation syndrome: p.76
   • Anger inhibition problems: p.104
5. Clinical examples: p.126
6. Custodial arrangements: advantages and disadvantages: p.148
   • The advantages of joint custody: p.152
   • The disadvantages of joint custody: p.153
   • The prognosis of joint custody: p.157
   • Arguments for dispensing entirely with the practice of naming the custodial arrangement: p.158
7. Mediation and arbitration: p.162
   • The advantages of mediation: p.168
   • The disadvantages of mediation: p.173
   • Who is best qualified to serve as mediator: p.176
   • Who should receive mediation? p.186
   • Arbitration: p.211
8. The impartial examiner: p.213
   • The "hired gun": p.213
   • Choosing the impartial examiner: p.220
   • The therapist as therapist vs. the therapist as impartial examiner: p.224
   • The provisions document
   • The custody/visitation evaluation: p.244
   • Individual interviews with each of the parents: p.248
9. The role of psychotherapy in the prevention and treatment of psychiatric disturbances caused by protracted custody litigation: p.268
   • Preventive measures at the advice-giving level: p.269
   • Voluntary treatment for the resolution of custody/visitation disputes: p.278
   • Court-ordered treatment of custody/visitation conflicts: p.299
   • The impartial examiner as therapist: p.313
10. Recommendations for the future: p.323
    • The education of lawyers: p.325
    • Judges: p.340
    • Child snatching or abduction: p.348
    • The education of nonlegal professionals: p.352
    • Do "sex-blind" custody decisions necessarily serve the best interests of children? p.354
11. addendum i. provisions for accepting an invitation to serve as an impartial examiner in custody/visitation litigation: p.357
12. addendum ii. provisions for serving as a child therapist for litigatint parents: p.365
13. addendum iii. provisions for serving as a counselor/mediator in custody/visitation conflicts: p.369

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