Saturday, March 31, 2012

Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy

Children's Rights in the United States
Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy
by Nancy E. Walker, Catherine M. Brooks, Lawrence S. Wrightsman
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The authors of this volume provide discussion on vital issues related to the rights of children in the United States, including: the historical and contextual perspective on the rights of children; the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; the differing views on children's rights and competencies; and the rights of children within the family, the social service system, the health care system, the educational system, the juvenile justice system and in employment.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #86862 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-09-14
  • Original language: English
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NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT
NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
by Edward Humes
4.8 out of 5 stars(31)

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After being granted access by court, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Humes surveys the largely futile attempts of LA to deal with juvenile crime.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #44224 in Books
  • Published on: 1997-05-07
  • Released on: 1997-05-07
  • Original language: English
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Children and International Human Rights Law: The Right of the Child to be Heard (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

Children and International Human Rights Law
Children and International Human Rights Law: The Right of the Child to be Heard (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)
by Aisling Parkes
Publication Date: September 26, 2012

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it. Article Twelve is fundamental to the Convention and states that all children capable of forming views have the right to express those views, and recognises that all children have the right to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting them.

This book explores the historical and theoretical background to Article Twelve, and examines the various models of participation which have been created to facilitate a better understanding of this provision. Aisling Parkes analyzes the extent to which Article Twelve has been implemented under international law, and in domestic law, as well as setting-out recommendations for the most effective ways of implementing Article Twelve in all areas of children’s lives.

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  • Published on: 2012-09-26
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Promise Unfulfilled

Promise Unfulfilled
Promise Unfulfilled
by Cathryn Crawford, Lorqaine Boissoneault
Publication Date: May 1, 2012

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An Unfulfilled Promise is a combination of original and reprinted articles exploring the juvenile justice system in the United States.

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  • Published on: 2012-05-01
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Kids Are Americans Too

Kids Are
Kids Are Americans Too
by Bill O'reilly, Charles Flowers
3.3 out of 5 stars(65)

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Four-time #1 bestselling author and veteran television news journalist Bill O'Reilly has more than 5 million copies of his books in print to date! His first book for young fans, The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, held the honorable distinction of being the #1 bestselling nonfiction title for kids in 2005 according to Nielsen's The Book Standard.

Back again with a dialogue on rights that will have everyone talking, O'Reilly and his coauthor Charles Flowers dole out the kind of blunt, cogent, commonsense commentary you count on them for. Together they explore timely questions being debated in and out of courts today, including:
  • Can a kid wear an anti-gay T-shirt on campus?
  • Does a school newspaper have the right to bad-mouth a principal?
  • Does a mother have the right to eavesdrop on her daughter's telephone conversations?

Some of the answers will surprise you. Some will empower you. All will make you think.

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  • Published on: 2008-10-01
  • Released on: 2008-09-30
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Raised by the Courts: One Judge's Insight into Juvenile Justice

Raised by the Courts
Raised by the Courts: One Judge's Insight into Juvenile Justice
by Irene Sullivan
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A veteran judge shares her vision for ending the vicious cycle of child abuse and crime. When 19-year-old Leo Boatman was convicted of the brutal murders of two college students, he told the judge, “I can’t offer an explanation because there is none.” But Judge Irene Sullivan knew there had to be more to the story than just a senseless crime, and she was determined to discover the root cause of Boatman’s behavior. Corresponding with him in prison, Judge Sullivan learned of the failures and abuses of every system Boatman had passed through, each intended to prevent such a devastating turn of events. Drawing on years of work with thousands of children, Judge Sullivan presents a plan for breaking the vicious cycle of child abuse and crime that causes such tragedies. Through eye-opening stories from both her own courtroom and the system at large, Judge Irene reveals what works for young people in jeopardy. The results are surprisingly optimistic: few would have guessed that the most successful programs are also among the most cost-effective and practical. Raised by the Courts will be a source of hope and clarity for those who care about ending the cycle of violent crime among the youngest and most vulnerable members of society.

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  • Published on: 2010-11-02
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Child Custody Exposed! - Secrets From Child Custody Attorney "Mr. X"

Child Custody
Child Custody Exposed! - Secrets From Child Custody Attorney "Mr. X"
John Rafter (Author)

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Child Custody Exposed! - Secrets From Child Custody Attorney "Mr. X"

In this fascinating book, Child Custody Attorney "Mr. X" reveals the child custody secrets that other attorneys don't want you to know.

Did you know that thousands of child custody cases were awarded last year in the US to the custodial parent that the child DID NOT wish to end up with?

Do you want to risk this happening to your children? It doesn't have to be this way!

All it takes is some knowledge that is easy to learn... but not always easy to find! Until now!

It's all here for you... in one package that's jammed packed with TONS of amazing facts that you'd have to pay thousands to an attorney to learn!

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Thanks for the advice it was very helpful.I am going to court and now i feel that i know what my rights are as a mother of 2 children.I really like the audios they were very helpful to me.Things have been looking up for me and am back on track again i feel much better.Thank u sooo much john.IF anyone wants good advice listen to the audios there very powerful and they will help u.They did for me..

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #306935 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2012-03-14
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Domestic Violence and the Child Welfare System

Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence and the Child Welfare System
Child Welfare Information Gateway (Author)

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System responses to domestic violence have typically been targeted toward adult victims of abuse. However, increased attention is now being focused on children who witness domestic violence. This bulletin addresses the impact of domestic violence on children and the resulting implications on professional practice. Resources such as websites and additional publications are also provided for further information.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #65989 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2011-06-08
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Children: Rights and Childhood (Ideas)

Children
Children: Rights and Childhood (Ideas)
by David Archard

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Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from law and literature to politics and psychology, David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book's first publication.

Divided clearly into three parts, Children: Rights and Childhood covers key topics such as:

  • John Locke's writings on children
  • Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood
  • key texts on children's liberation and rights
  • a child's right to vote and to sexual choice
  • the rights of parents and the state over children
  • defining and understanding child abuse.
The second edition has been fully revised and updated including a new preface, a new chapter on children's moral and legal rights, taking into account the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1730372 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-10-28
  • Original language: English
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Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment

Business Law
Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment
by Jane Mallor, A. James Barnes, L. Thomas Bowers, Arlen Langvardt
3.4 out of 5 stars(40)

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Mallor, Barnes, Bowers and Langvardt’s: Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 14e is appropriate for the two-term business law course. The cases in the 14th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. The syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. As in recent previous editions, the 14th edition includes a mix of actual AND hypothetical cases.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #16333 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-02-23
  • Original language: English
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  • Dimensions: 2.10" h x 8.10" w x 10.00" l, 6.65 pounds
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  • 1600 pages

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Family Child Care Legal and Insurance Guide: How to Protect Yourself from the Risks of Running a Business (Redleaf Business)

Family Child Care Legal and Insurance Guide
Family Child Care Legal and Insurance Guide: How to Protect Yourself from the Risks of Running a Business (Redleaf Business)
by Mari Millard, Tom Copeland JD
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This easy-to-read guide takes the intimidation out of running a family child care business through legal and insurance planning. From researching and purchasing homeowner’s, liability, auto and disability insurance to protecting against lawsuits, the Family Child Care Legal and Insurance Guide details the many practical ways business owners can maximize their knowledge about the safeguards needed to ensure the health and prosperity of their businesses.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #260494 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-05-01
  • Original language: English
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  • Dimensions: .50" h x 7.04" w x 8.94" l, .78 pounds
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  • 160 pages

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The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

The Lost Children of Wilder
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
by Nina Bernstein
4.5 out of 5 stars(22)

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IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s inequities. Wilder, as the case came to be known, was waged for two and a half decades, becoming a battleground for the conflicts of race, religion, and politics that shape America’s child-welfare system.

The Lost Children of Wilder gives us the galvanizing history of this landmark case and the personal story at its core. Nina Bernstein takes us behind the scenes of far-reaching legal and legislative battles, but she also traces the life of Shirley Wilder and her son, Lamont, born when Shirley was only fourteen and relinquished to the very system being challenged in her name. Bernstein’s account of Shirley and Lamont’s struggles captures the heartbreaking consequences of the child welfare system’s best intentions and deepest flaws. In the tradition of There Are No Children Here, this is a major achievement of investigative journalism and a tour de force of social observation, a gripping book that will haunt every reader who cares about the needs of children.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #148464 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-02-05
  • Released on: 2002-02-05
  • Original language: English
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Investigative Interviews of Children: A Guide for Helping Professionals

Investigative Interviews of Children
Investigative Interviews of Children: A Guide for Helping Professionals
by Debra A. Poole, Michael E. Lamb
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Interviewing children for investigative purposes is a specialized skill. Professional interviewers need to be able to conduct interviews that bear scrutiny from outside agencies and also serve the best interests of children. In clear, engaging language, this eye-opening book corrects the common misunderstandings about adult-child conversational exchanges and provides guidelines for interviews, based on the most up-to-date research. It also presents a flexible interview protocol that can be tailored to meet individual needs. Topics discussed include The current child protection crisis The difficulties of investigating alleged abuse cases Children's strengths and weaknesses as interviewees Characteristics of the most respected interview protocols Children's language development and understanding of "interview rules" Ancillary techniques, such as the use of drawings and anatomically detailed dolls How to improve one's decision-making skills How to stay abreast of the latest research and techniques The principles outlined in his book can be generalized to a variety of situations in which the interviewer wishes to gather information untainted by the dynamics of adult-child questioning. Thus, Investigative Interviews of Children will be invaluable not only to child protection workers, lawyers, law enforcement officers, and psychologists, but also to other mental health professionals, educators, and parents.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #775173 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-01
  • Original language: English
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Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials

Dynamic Business Law
Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials
by Nancy Kubasek, M. Neil Browne, Dan Herron, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, Linda Barkacs
4.5 out of 5 stars(2)

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Dynamic Business Law is appropriate for the one-semester Business Law course. It contains the basics of business law but does not get bogged down in the kind of details that are more appropriate in an upper-level law class. The text provides an examination of the basic questions, concepts, and legal rules of business law. • Emphasis on the BUSINESS in business law. Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials emphasizes the tie of legal issues back to the core business curriculum. This will help both students and faculty. Faculty need to know how this is integrated as they are constantly 'defending' the inclusion of this course in the business curriculum. And students need to understand how the concepts tie to their future business careers. • Emphasis on TEACHING. Many professors teaching this course are attorneys first and academics second. They do not have a lot of time to prepare or think about how to apply this information effectively for their business students. Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials contains a helpful instructor's manual, particularly for the many adjuncts teaching this course. • Emphasis on CRITICAL THINKING. Neil Browne, one of the co-authors of this text, has written a successful text on critical thinking. His framework is included in Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials as well – to help students learn how to frame and reframe a question/issue. Critical thinking questions are also included at the end of each case, to tie in this component even further.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #110214 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-01-29
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A Question of Balance

A Question
A Question of Balance
Janet Ward (Author)
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A QUESTION OF BALANCE: DECISION MAKING FOR CASA/GAL VOLUNTEERS

A Question of Balance synthesizes the extensive pre-service training that all CASA/GAL volunteers receive in a short (less than 60 pages), conversational format. The guidance offered helps CASA and GAL volunteers recall and perform the critical child advocacy functions they learned about in pre-service training. They can investigate, facilitate, advocate and monitor each case with confidence, knowing that the information being presented and the recommendations being made to the court powerfully convey the best interests of the child.

A Question of Balance lays the groundwork for successful child advocacy. It contains content that volunteers need throughout the life of the case and will use in different ways. Examples include:

· preparing for goal-directed interviews

· acquiring all the necessary information

· sorting the information gathered for relevance and missing pieces

· weighing cultural considerations

· adapting information to the appropriate type of court hearing and

· constructing a well-documented, fact-based court report.

The multi-function nature of the book makes it ideally suited to the Kindle format. It’s almost like having a supervisor in your pocket. The Kindle provides not only instant accessibility but also offers features like highlighting and note-taking that can assist with several of the tasks listed above.

A Question of Balance is designed to stimulate the reader’s thinking while, at the same time, providing tools to enhance child advocacy. This book is divided into three sections.

· The narrative chapters focus on issues that volunteers often find challenging: looking beyond personal values, developing cultural competency, acquiring reliable and relevant information from the complex child welfare system and utilizing the volunteer/supervisor relationship effectively.

· The decision inventory is a series of questions intended to elicit the facts required for each type of court hearing.

· The resource section provides a link to National CASA’s large library of web-based articles on topics of interest to CASA and GAL volunteers.

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  • Published on: 2012-03-21
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Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

Restoring the Lost Constitution
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
Randy E. Barnett (Author)
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The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government. From the Commerce Clause, to the Necessary and Proper Clause, to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, to the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has rendered each of these provisions toothless. In the process, the written Constitution has been lost.

Barnett establishes the original meaning of these lost clauses and offers a practical way to restore them to their central role in constraining government: adopting a "presumption of liberty" to give the benefit of the doubt to citizens when laws restrict their rightful exercises of liberty. He also provides a new, realistic and philosophically rigorous theory of constitutional legitimacy that justifies both interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning and, where that meaning is vague or open-ended, construing it so as to better protect the rights retained by the people.

As clearly argued as it is insightful and provocative, Restoring the Lost Constitution forcefully disputes the conventional wisdom, posing a powerful challenge to which others must now respond.

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  • Published on: 2005-07-05
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court

A Kind and Just Parent
A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court
by William Ayers
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Most people know juvenile offenders only from daily headlines, and the images portrayed by the media are extreme and violent: predators and even "superpredators." Distorted and incomplete, these pictures shape the way Americans think and feel about city kids, poor kids, children of color.

A Kind and Just Parent gives us a transformative view of kids caught up in the justice system that we could never get from nightly news and newspaper stories. William Ayers has spent five years as teacher and observer in Chicago's Juvenile Court prison, the nation's first and largest institution of juvenile justice, founded by legendary reformer Jane Addams to act as a "kind and just parent" for kids in need. Today, immensely confused and confusing, it serves as a perfect microcosm of the way American justice deals with children.

Through brilliant storytelling, Ayers captures the lives and personalities of young people caught up in the juvenile justice system. The book follows a year in the life of the prison school. Its characters are three dimensional: funny, quirky, sometimes violent, and often vulnerable. We see young people talking about their lives, analyzing their own situations, and thinking about their friends and their futures. We watch them throughout a school year and meet some remarkable teachers. From the intimate perspective of a teacher, Ayers gives us portraits, history, and analysis that help us to understand not only what brought these kids into the court system, but why people find it hard to think straight about them, and what we might do to keep their younger brothers and sisters from landing in the same place.

Unsentimental yet wrenching, A Kind and Just Parent is a riveting look at kids and crime. It will change the way Americans think about juvenile crime and juvenile justice.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #226525 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-06-01
  • Released on: 1998-06-01
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Media Law for Producers, Fourth Edition

Media Law
Media Law for Producers, Fourth Edition
by Philip Miller
4.5 out of 5 stars(4)

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Media Law for Producers is a comprehensive handbook that explains, in lay terms, the myriad legal issues that the producer will face on a regular basis - contracts, permits, defamation, patents, releases and insurance, libel, royalties and residuals, as well as protecting the finished production. This revised and expanded edition includes such Internet-related topics as Internet music law, online registration, and online privacy. Other new topics covered include:

· Implied and express contracts in the project/idea submission process
· Assignment/transfer of copyright
· Music clip licensing
· Use of other people's trademarks in media production
· Parody as a defense to copyright infringement



Clear explanations examine the how and why of different types of production contracts, and checklists provide a quick means for producers to determine when their productions might be at greatest risk to legal challenges. Media Law for Producers also examines the substantial changes in copyright term resulting from recent copyright legislation.

Legal problems can be very costly to media producers. Lawyers and court fees, coupled with the loss of work time, can lead to bankruptcy. Media Law for Producers cuts through the legalese and illustrates legal issues to help producers recognize the legal questions that can arise during production.

*A useful, practical guide for the active producer

*Completely revised and updated to include a new chapter on Interactive Media

*Contains new sample contracts and forms

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #83316 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-11-14
  • Original language: English
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  • 399 pages

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Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child Custody Evaluations, Second Edition

Conducting Scientifically
Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child Custody Evaluations, Second Edition
by Jonathan W. Gould
5.0 out of 5 stars(2)

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This comprehensive guide presents the literature on child custody evaluations in a coherent, logically integrated format that can be applied directly to practice.

Jonathan Gould proposes new assessment models that are based on studies of the 10 percent of divorced couples who pursue resolution of custody disputes. The book comprises a conceptual framework - history, systems, standards and rules, and business/office management issues, the evaluation process - practical hands-on guidance, and suggestions for the evaluator preparing for the court.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #103170 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-01-30
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .2 pounds
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  • 490 pages

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