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CHILD Assessment
Applications for the following child assessment instruments include:
Child Custody Evaluations
Family Therapy
Child and Adolescent Therapy
Child Abuse/Neglect Assessment
PARENTING ASSESSMENT
Applications for the following parent assessment instruments include:
Child Custody Evaluations
Family Therapy
Parenting Skills/Fitness Assessment (termination of parental rights)
Assessment of others serving in or proposed to serve in a parental role (e.g., stepparent, grandparent)
Corroborative Sources Data
Applications for the following assessment instrument include:
Child Custody Evaluations
Child Abuse/Neglect Evaluations
Information gathering from involved professionals or other informants (Physician, Teacher, Mental Health Professional, Other Corroborative Sources)
OTHER CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATION RESOURCES
All you need to know about the child custody evaluation process:
How to conduct a custody evaluation from beginning to end. A comprehensive continuing education course that covers all aspects of a child custody evaluation
How to administer various assessment instruments and collect interview data
How to aggregate all of the data collected during a custody evaluation
How to write a custody evaluation report
Continuing Education
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About Us
Since 1982, Village Publishing has been offering the child custody and family/parenting tests and assessment instruments of two of the most well-known experts in the field of child custody. These tests and tools are, in their most critical areas, validated by neuroscience research, and especially by the research and thinking of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on FEELINGS.
Research suggests that 95% of the choices, decisions and judgements of adults and children are more influenced by feelings than thoughts. People might have many thoughts about some particular choice, but the “select” button is a feeling. Every single thing we think, say, do, hear, write, desire, fear, create, learn, hate, decide, evaluate, remember, fantasize, plan, or dream of is obviously, or subtly, accompanied by a feeling. The way a child or adult FEELS about a choice, decision, or judgment is much more likely to be valid than what is said by that child or adult about the choice, decision, or judgment. This is true in any setting, and especially true in a forensic setting. [Click here to read the full article “Feelings and Emotions Are Not the Same Thing”]
While the tests and other instruments were originally designed for forensic use in child custody evaluations, they have found their way into more general use as their value in other settings involving people (married, divorced, unmarried) and their children became apparent. The assessment instruments provide information that is useful for a variety of applications, including:
Screening and diagnosis for family counseling/psychotherapy
Family counseling evaluations to assess differing parenting relationships, beliefs, and practices among parents or other caregivers
Assessment of strengths and weaknesses in parenting skills
Assessment of how a child perceives and values his or her interactions with each parent in many critical childcare areas, and the manner in which a child is forced to assume different ways of acting and feeling within different family systems (e.g., appeaser of dad’s anger and protector of mom)
Monitoring the effectiveness and impact of therapeutic interventions through periodic re-administrations
Termination of parental rights and parental fitness evaluations
Assessment of a parent’s knowledge and understanding of a specific child in a wide variety of important life areas (interpersonal relationships, daily routine, health history, developmental history, school history, fears, personal hygiene, communication style)
Child abuse/neglect evaluations
The instruments have been used by all types of mental health professionals (e.g., psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage counselors, school psychologists and counselors, psychiatrists, pastoral therapists, juvenile-offender counselors) who perform or plan to perform child, parent, or family assessments, or serve in the roles of child and family therapists or counselors.
Professional Resources
Upcoming contributions will include the latest in neuroscience, resilience, child custody, and psychotherapy.
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A research-based test measuring a child’s perception of each parent in critical life areas: competency, supportiveness, consistency, admirable traits