Substance-abusing mothers and disruptions in child custody: An attachment perspective

Attachment measures and child custody evaluations Running head: Utilizing attachment measures in child custody evaluations Utilizing Attachment Measures in Child Custody Evaluations: Incremental Validity

The American Psychological Association Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Divorce Proceedings (American Psychological Association, 1994) stresses the need for a multi-method evaluation, reasoning that by considering data from different approaches, we can best ensure the validity of our findings in making custody recommendations. One of the primary issues in custody evaluations is asses...

Distinctive personality attributes of child-abusing mothers.

Substance-abusing child welfare parents: treatment and child placement outcomes.

The authors present findings from their study of 167 child welfare parents referred for substance abuse assessments. Relationships between gender, prior treatment, court-ordered intervention, significant others' support, and treatment and placement outcomes are examined. Findings indicate significant others' support positively influences all outcomes while court-ordered intervention is not pred...

Child Custody Challenges for Divorced Mothers: A Phenomenological Study

Introduction: The divorce is a public health issue in the family and society; that has irreparable damage to family members, especially children. One of the prominent issues in divorce is child custody. Due to the pivotal role of emotions and feeling in women, in the present study, the attention is devoted to the psychological challenges of divorcing women over acquiring the rights of custody o...

Child Custody Evaluations, Attachment Theory, and an Attachment Measure: the Science Remains Limited

Emery otto, and O'Donohue (2005) diseussed the foundations of non-attachment-related child custody evaluations • (CCEs) and concluded that they had a limited scientific basis. Other authors (e.g., Isaacs, George, & Marvin 2009) have suggested the possibility of using attaehment theory and attachment measures for CCE purposes Thi¡ pape reviews cnt.c.sms of attaehment theory and research and disc...