title: Psychological model for judicial decision making in emergency or temporary child placement.
abstract: In emergencies, family court judges must often make rapid decisions, without benefit of thorough information, that have significant impact on people's lives. Action-oriented research was used to develop a model that would bring psychosocial factors to the legal system for the purpose of enhancing the judicial decision-making process in emergency and temporary child placement cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ballou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Billingham
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Boorstein
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gershberg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heim
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lirianio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McGovern
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nicastro
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Romaniello
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vazquez-Nuttall
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003657:Decision Making; D004630:Emergencies; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D020380:Needs Assessment; D013997:Time Factors