title: Forensic family evaluations: a comprehensive model for professional practice.
abstract: This paper describes a model for forensic family evaluations (FFE) that arise from issues of child custody and maltreatment. FFEs are comprehensive assessments that utilize a variety of data collection methods. The FFE has three basic stages: beginning the evaluation, collecting data, and presenting the evaluation findings. In each stage there are a number of professional and administrative stations. Each stage of the FFE presents unique challenges: maintaining internal and external independence, managing issues of convergent validity, and monitoring written and verbal output. Each of these stages, stations, and challenges is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Children & Parents Project, Brattleboro, Vermont.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Halikias
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002655:Child Custody; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003625:Data Collection; D004243:Divorce; D005190:Family; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011364:Professional Practice