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Subject: Help me to begin my own research.
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Asked by: marilynann-ga
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Posted: 29 Jul 2005 12:25 PDT
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Are there any technical publications (available textbooks, journal
articles, research papers) that might give me any information about
the effects of actions of family court on young children.
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Subject: Re: Help me to begin my own research.
Answered By: crabcakes-ga on 29 Jul 2005 19:44 PDT
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Hello Marilynann,


  I must say that I did not find a lot of information dealing with
this exact topic. I have found some though; many are free, and others
are on a fee per article basis, along with books you can purchase.
Most articles address PTSD (Post traumatic Stress Disorder) in
children from having their family disrupted, new homes, violence, and
child abuse rather than court-induced stress.

I have also included articles/books that, while not exactly on topic,
may give you some additional insight into your topic.

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Free Articles
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?The Child in Court: A Subject Review?
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;104/5/1145

?THE FAMILY COURT: A VIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE?
http://econ.massey.ac.nz/cppe/papers/cppeip03.htm

?Tragically, child victims are vulnerable both to abuse within their
families and to the failures of the systems intended to protect them.
Historically, children have been regarded as the property and
responsibility solely of their parents; this philosophy, however,
places children of abusive parents in considerable danger. Public
agencies and professionals have been given the authority to act to
protect children, but because of resource scarcity and procedural
issues, child protection agencies are not always able to intervene
swiftly and decisively, much less to provide treatment or prevention
programs to end the child abuse and maltreatment.?
http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/viol&fam.html


?There are three underlying premises regarding the development of
children that underlie this article. First, all litigation concerning
children can affect their healthy growth and development negatively.
The greater the acrimony and the greater the part that the children
need or are asked to play in the litigation, the greater the potential
for harm.?
http://www.fact.on.ca/Info/pas/ward02.htm


Removal From the Home  (Page 2)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/SC2/sc2/pdf/lyon.pdf

?Over the past ten years, I have seen many children come through our
center. Most of these children just want someone to listen to them,
believe them and help them.?
http://www.southeastcac.org/Newsletter.htm

Directions to the Children
http://www.dca.gov.uk/family/abfldomviol.htm#part3

?The Child in Court: A Subject Review?
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/104/5/1145

Family Court Resolutions
http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/Documents/Publications/NZLC%20R82%20Fam.pdf

?Unless appropriate services are provided, the experience of giving
evidence in court is likely to further traumatise the already affected
child, particularly given the likelihood that the legal process might
be drawn out over a period of up to twelve or fifteen months, may
involve several remands, and includes the possibility of a preliminary
hearing.?
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/rvc/bellett.pdf


?The Child's Experience of the Legal System?
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/08/hayes.pdf

Interpretive Differences Among Testifying Experts in Child Sexual Abuse Cases 
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/jonathan.koehler/articles/1998_Chapter.pdf


?Visitation Risk Assessment?
http://www.psychologyinfo.com/forensic/visitation_risk.html

Some courts offer counseling for kids in dealing with the courts:
http://www.kycourts.net/Courts/FayProgramKidsTime.shtm

http://www.kycourts.net/AOC/MAFCS/MAFCS_FCDivorceEd.shtm

http://www.justice.govt.nz/family/advice/advice-june-05-children-1.html

http://www.rherald.com/News/2002/0613/Front_Page/f06.html

Child and Parent reactions
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/nspcc/helpline?action=showhelplinecontent89&view=hlchildandparentsep

http://www.texasfamilylaw.info/childrens_reactions.htm

http://www.mediation.com.au/publications/Children's%20Reactions.pdf

http://familylaw.gov.au/AccessPoint/ag_documents/Separation%20and%20children.htm#A


Children and Divorce
http://education.umn.edu/ceed/publications/earlyreport/fall89.htm


?Although there is some debate over whether such a field exists or
what it should be called, family forensic psychology has been defined
as "the study of families, members of family units, organizations, and
larger systems from a family systems perspective in assessments and
interventions regarding interaction with the legal system." (Grossman
& Okun 2003: 166).?
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/psy/psylect15.htm


?Guidelines for Psychological Evaluations in Child Protection Matters?
http://www.apa.org/practice/childprotection.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3594286&dopt=Citation


?The Psychological Effects of Relocation for Children of Divorce?
http://www.aaml.org/Journal/15-1/mat105.pdf


?Improving Court Decisions Affecting Children in Foster Care?
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/cfcc/pdffiles/Caregivers&CourtsFull.pdf


?Impacts of a Court Mandatory Parenting Program?
http://www.joe.org/joe/2002june/iw3.html

?Adolescent's Views On The Fairness Of Parenting And Financial
Arrangements After Separation?
http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/Sydney_Morning_Herald_University_Study_Divorce_21DEC03.htm

Transcript ?Alastair Nicholson defends the Family Court system?
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1329075.htm

?The family court system is nothing short of a ruthless war on women and children.?
http://www.mothersmovement.org/opinion/05/sonata_0605.htm


?Numerous studies have documented the negative emotional impact on
children of testifying in court (Goodman et al., 1993; Myers, 1996;
Peters, 1991; Sas, Hurley, Hatch, Malla, & Dick, 1993; Whitcomb,
Goodman, Runyan, & Hoak, 1994). Many of the stressors facing child
witnesses have been identified in the clinical literature. Challenging
and intimidating crossexamination of children is permitted and fairly
routine. The language employed in the courtroom is sophisticated and
formalized. Very few children ever testify behind a screen or using a
closed circuit television provision, which means that they must face
the accused in court when describing their victimization. Children
often have to testify twice, once at a preliminary hearing and once at
a trial.?
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/rs/rep/2002/interaction/inter_sum.html


?Of particular destructive import is the effect of the stress of an
adversarial system on the children and their families. The rules
governing divorce must be such that they minimise the stresses on the
children, and on their parents ? the stakeholders in the divorce
process.?
http://www.fact.on.ca/releases/boydpres.pdf


?ARE CHILDREN PROTECTED IN THE FAMILY COURT? A PERSPECTIVE FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA?
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/2003-abuse/jenkins.pdf

?Sensitising the Court Players and
Protecting the Child?
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/08/scudds.pdf

?Each year, many Canadian children are affected by the separation or
divorce of their parents. The negative consequences for children are
aggravated if parents become involved in protracted conflict over
separation. While governments cannot eliminate such conflict,
reforming the family justice system is one way to help children and
their parents adjust to a new family situation.?
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/pad/about/

AFCC
http://www.afccnet.org/about/history.asp

?How do court-ordered contact arrangements affect our kids? Does
forcing young people into rigid time schedules - this time with Mum,
this time with Dad, really serve a child's needs??
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/stories/s1011752.htm

Foster Care
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/101/2/201

?CHILDREN'S ALIGNMENT WITH PARENTS IN HIGHLY CONFLICTED CUSTODY CASES?
http://www.fact.on.ca/Info/pas/lampel96.htm

?Developmental Issues for Young Children in Foster Care?
?The developmental issues important for young children in foster care
are reviewed, including: 1) the implications and consequences of
abuse, neglect, and placement in foster care on early brain
development; 2) the importance and challenges of establishing a
child's attachment to caregivers; 3) the importance of considering a
child's changing sense of time in all aspects of the foster care
experience; and 4) the child's response to stress. Additional topics
addressed relate to parental roles and kinship care, parent-child
contact, permanency decision-making, and the components of
comprehensive assessment and treatment of a child's development and
mental health needs.?
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;106/5/1145

Scroll down to ?Children's Court and Family Court compared and contrasted?
http://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/CA256CA800011129/page/Research+Materials-Family+-+General?OpenDocument&1=60-Research+Materials~&2=40-Family+-+General~&3=~

?Helping Courts Hear the Evidence of Children?
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/cwp.htm


Explaining Court
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/bjcourtprep/obj.html

?Can a Court be Kid-Friendly??
http://www.connectforkids.org/node/353

?Being involved in the court process can be stressful and confusing
for both adults and children. Quite often, families feel swept up in a
whirlwind of new people and strange procedures, in a place where they
lack control over important decisions. Even so, many families look
forward to their day in court, since court is supposed to provide
justice. Once at court, however, families often feel frustrated
because they do not understand what is happening or what is being said
by the lawyers and judges; the very people in charge of protecting
them.?
http://contracosta.networkofcare.org/kids/library/detail.cfm?id=458&cat=63

In the Best Interest of the Child
http://www.rkids.org/information/authors/carrillo/inthebestinterest.html


?Providing stability for the children assigned to family court is the
goal?? You?ll have to sign up for a free membership here:
http://examiner.net/login.shtml?orq:http://www.examiner.net/stories/041505/new_041505006.shtml


Kourts for Kids
http://www.kourtsforkids.org/

http://www.kourtsforkids.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=109
Kourts also has links to further articles
http://www.kourtsforkids.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=40&catid=119


?No way out: the High Court and children in detention?
http://www.newmatilda.com/home/articledetail.asp?ArticleID=418

Children Suffer
http://www.infidelity.com/the-kids/articles/children-suffer.htm

?Courtrooms can be emotionally charged and stressful places,
especially for children. That's why the National Council of Jewish
Women/Pittsburgh Section established several children's playrooms in
the Downtown civil and criminal courthouses, so that kids have a safe
and stress-free place to wait while their families deal with
court-related business.?
http://www.postgazette.com/localnews/20040114levy0114fnp2.asp

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Pay per article
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The following article is $11.95
?Developmental issues in relocation cases involving young children:
When, whether, and how??
by Kelly, Joan B.; Lamb, Michael E.
from Journal of Family Psychology. 2003 Jun Vol 17(2) 193-205
http://content.apa.org/journals/fam/17/2/193


Blackwell Synergy has several articles that may be of interest, but
they are not free. You can read the abstract and decide if you might
like to pay per article. You can also register with this site for
direct access to the site. A free membership will grant you limited
access.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1995.tb00386.x/abs/?cookieSet=1

?Whether or not custody evaluators, testifying as expert witnesses,
continue to make specific custody recommendations, custody decision
making will continue to be based upon inadequate and untested evidence
unless and until we reform the family court system in American
courtrooms. Judges and lawyers must have specialized knowledge and
training about such things as the developmental needs of children, the
effects of divorce on children, domestic violence, and child safety
issues; lawyers must develop litigation as well as mediation and
negotiation skills; specialized family courts utilizing individual
calendars and case management techniques must be established; and the
complexities and intellectual challenges of family law cases needs to
be recognized.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2005.00023.x

?With the rise of divorce mediation as an effective means of resolving
divorce and custody disputes, a question that arises is whether a
child should actively participate in the mediation process to make his
or her voice heard. This article discusses the costs and benefits of
involvement, focusing on four specific approaches to the inclusion of
children in divorce mediation. This article comes to the conclusion
that the integration of children in mediation ought to be considered
on a case-by-case basis, and further proposes that a child be included
in divorce mediation in circumstances where the child's input is
needed to help parents resolve an issue of dispute that concerns their
child's interests.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2005.00032.x
 

?This article considers the sudden rush of enthusiam to hear
children's voices in divorce proceedings in countries such as the
United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere and points to
the problems that are likely to occur if the family law system really
does mean to treat children seriously. It argues that children give
complex accounts that may not fit neatly into either adult or legal
agendas. Notwithstanding the difficulties that flow from this
development, it is argued that it is essential to include children's
understandings in the formulation of future policy and practice.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.2002.tb00842.x/abs/

?Recent innovations in American child custody law have affected both
the substantive law and the procedures by which custody decisions are
reached. Professor Bruch describes these developments, analyses their
underpinnings in psychology and ideology, and identifies both intended
and unrecognized effects of the dispute resolution process on the
custody decision. She concludes that many new doctrines and procedures
that have been widely assumed to benefit children, including joint
custody and mediation, often disserve children's interests.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1992.tb01273.x/abs/


?SHARED PARENTING IS IT WORKING? REFLECTIONS BY A COURT SERVICE MEDIATOR?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1989.tb01292.x/abs/


?Commentary on Kelly and Lamb's "Using Child Development Research to
Make Appropriate Custody and Access Decisions for Young Children"
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.2001.tb00617.x/abs/

?EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IN CHILDREN OF HIGH-CONFLICT DIVORCEThe Impact of
Marital Conflict and Violence?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1999.tb01307.x/abs/

?Children's Testimony: A Handbook of Psychological Research and
Forensic Practice?  Helen Westcott, Graham Davies and Ray Bull (eds)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2206.2003.t01-5-00268.x

?This article reports the first descriptive findings from the Snapshot
Study of California Family Court Services. The study compiled data
about all sessions with clients in 75 branch courts in 51 counties
during a fixed period in June 1991. This report is confined to
sessions in which mediation was provided. On socioeconomic variables,
families involved in mediation ranked lower than the general
California population. The results revealed widespread concerns about
serious family problems, such as violence and substance abuse. In
spite of the grave circumstances facing many families who use
court-connected mediation, a range of independent indicators confirmed
that mediation is an effective dispute resolution tool. A high
proportion of clients described their agreements as satisfactory and
good for their children. The mediation process itself was rated
favorably by most clients. The majority of sessions were deemed
productive by mediators.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1992.tb01045.x/abs/


?Children's perspectives can enlighten decisions regarding custody and
parenting plans, but different opinions exist about how best to
involve children in the decision-making process. This article
discusses why most procedures for soliciting children's preferences do
not reliably elicit information on their best interests and do not
give children a meaningful voice in decision making. Instead, these
procedures provide children with forums in which to takes sides in
their parents' disputes. In addition to hearing an individual child's
voice, decision makers can use the collective voice of children, as
revealed in research on such topics as joint custody, overnight stays,
and relocation to help understand what children might say about these
issues with the hindsight of maturity and in the absence of parental
pressure, loyalty conflicts, inhibitions, and limitations in
perspective and articulation.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2003.00373.x/abs/

?The present study was designed to examine effects of closed-circuit
technology on children's testimony and jurors' perceptions of child
witnesses. For the study, a series of elaborately staged mock trials
was held. First, 5- to 6-year-old and 8- to 9-year-old children
individually participated in a play session with an unfamiliar male
confederate. Approximately 2 weeks later, children individually
testified about the event at a downtown city courtroom. Mock juries
composed of community recruits viewed the trials, with the child's
testimony presented either live in open court or over closed-circuit
television. Mock jurors made ratings concerning the child witness and
the defendant, and deliberated to reach a verdict. Results indicated
that overall, older children were more accurate witnesses than younger
children. However, older, not younger children produced more
inaccurate information in free recall. Compared to live testimony in
open court, use of closed-circuit technology led to decreased
suggestibility for younger children. Testifying in open court was also
associated with children experiencing greater pretrial anxiety.
Closed-circuit technology did not diminish factfinders' abilities to
discriminate accurate from inaccurate child testimony, nor did it
directly bias jurors against the defendant. However, closed-circuit
testimony biased jurors against child witnesses. Moreover, jurors
tended to base their impressions of witness credibility on perceived
confidence and consistency. Implications for the use of closed-
circuit technology when children testify are discussed.?
http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=36135e3bb6e84eaaa4a0128e01bd8d4d&referrer=parent&backto=issue,2,5;journal,44,51;linkingpublicationresults,1:104390,1


?Families in Conflict: Perspectives of Children and Parents on the
Family Court Welfare Service?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2206.2002.t01-4-00236.x

Family Court Review
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1989.tb01303.x/abs/


?The Effect of U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Sullivan v. Zebley on Child
SSI and AFDC Enrollment?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=225890

?Abstract   The influence of interparental verbal and physical
aggression, children''s coping styles, and relevant demographic
factors on children''s adjustment was examined in a group of 52
families who were disputing custody and/or access arrangements after
separation. It was hypothesized that parental conflict and specific
children''s coping strategies (i.e., cognitive redefinition and social
support seeking) would be important predictors of children''s
adjustment. Consistent with previous research, aggressive styles of
resolving conflict between parents were related to more frequent and
severe behavior problems and diminished competence among children.
Conversely, greater flexibility in coping and greater use of cognitive
coping strategies among children were related to decreased behavioral
disturbance. The unique and combined influence of these variables is
discussed.?
http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=dcadc75107ac47838f03e9f458ecf5ae&referrer=parent&backto=issue,7,8;journal,13,108;linkingpublicationresults,1:404756,1

?This article reports on programs for children whose parents are
divorcing or separating. Data were obtained from 67 courts and 81
program providers across the United States. Most court systems with
children's programs used community providers and encouraged rather
than required children's attendance. The average program consisted of
one or two sessions, with a length of 4 to 5 1/2 hours. A partial list
of commercially available curricula is provided in the appendix.?
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.2001.tb00621.x/abs/


?Do Fathers ?Win? or Do Mothers ?Lose?? A Preliminary Analysis of
Closely Contested...?
Moloney Int J Law Policy Family.2001; 15: 363-396.
http://lawfam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/3/363.pdf

?The present study examined the effects of the timing of an initial
interview on children's recall of an event over delays of 1 and 2
years. Fifty-five children who had originally participated in a novel
event when they were between 5- and 6-years old and had been
interviewed about it following either short (1 week or less) or long
(1 or 6 month) delays were re-interviewed 1 and 2 years after the
original experience. An additional 20 children not interviewed prior
to the 1-year interview were included as a no-prior-interview control
group. Long delays to the initial interview led to better open-ended
recall at the 1-year delay than short delays to initial interview or
no prior interview. However, initial interviews that followed short
delays had a greater impact on children's responses to specific
questions. The results suggest that prior interview history is an
important consideration when examining the effects of long delays on
children's event reports, and that the effects of the timing of an
initial interview depend on the nature of the information recalled.
Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.?
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109627341/ABSTRACT

?Infant (0-24 months) protection cases pose particular difficulties at
court: infants are physically and developmentally vulnerable,
frequently there is no 'track record' against which parenting
performance can be predicted, and the rights of infants and parents
often appear to conflict. These difficulties often give rise to
tensions that are keenly felt at the lawyer/protective worker
interface. This paper presents an analysis of court issues arising for
child protection workers in the course of the first 2 years of an
initiative in the Australian state of Victoria: the Child Protection
Service's High-Risk Infants service quality improvement initiative.
The paper argues for an inter-disciplinary policy and practice
development agenda to begin to resolve unnecessary areas of conflict
and to clarify which areas of dispute are properly the business of the
court.?
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=6dfdf4ff64fd4c0fa35ca23576b3ce38&referrer=parent&backto=issue,3,8;journal,7,20;linkingpublicationresults,1:104719,1

Programs for Children
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.174-1617.1996.tb00403.x/abs/

?The family justice system operates with a set of presumptions and
assumptions about the welfare of the child which are assumed to be
based on 'scientific' knowledge and which, therefore, are further
assumed to carry the authority of both science and law. In practice,
the result is that those working within the family justice system use
powerful 'legal'notions whose provenance is often taken for granted
and whose authority is unchallenged. Drawing on the different sets of
assumptions operating in the family justice system and the youth
justice system, this article explains, however, that law responds to
messages originating in external discourses, notably science and
politics, only in so far as its functions require and only in ways
which 'fit'into legal communications. Viewed in this light, the
presumptions are seen as working guidelines which should only be used
with great care when dealing with the lives of children and young
people. Whilst acknowledging that a full investigation of all
children's cases would not be feasible, this article therefore argues
for greater attention to the applicability and validity of prevailing
presumptions.?
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=5b58c5a976c34382b46a6876c386dc83&referrer=parent&backto=issue,3,10;journal,18,20;linkingpublicationresults,1:104719,1

Family Law in Australia
http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/topics/topics_pdf_files/family_law.pdf


?In the present experiment, we analysed court transcripts in which
children aged 5 to 13 years provided the key evidence in sexual abuse
trials. We developed two separate coding schemes for lawyers'
questions and children's responses. Consistent with past research,
defence lawyers conducting cross-examination asked a higher proportion
of complex, grammatically confusing, credibility-challenging, leading,
and closed questions than prosecution lawyers. In responding to
defence lawyers' questions, child witnesses rarely asked for
clarification and often attempted to answer questions that were
ambiguous or did not make sense. Furthermore, over 75% of children
changed at least one aspect of their testimony during the
cross-examination process. These findings have important implications
for the way in which children are examined in court.?$6.00
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://aap/ppl/2003/00000010/00000001/art00022&unc=

More Blackwell Synergy articles
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1978.00289.x?journalCode=famp


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Books
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http://www.abanet.org/child/catalog/books.html

?Young Children and Trauma : Intervention and Treatment? (Hardcover)
by Joy D. Osofsky (Editor)?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593850417/104-1626582-8500738?v=glance

Three Years After the Verdict
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/threeyrs.htm
This page on the same site has publication you may order:
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/cwp.htm

PTSD in Children
http://www.successunlimited.co.uk/books/ptsympt.htm

?The Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology? San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 2002. 704pp. $75.00 (h) RIBNER, Neil G. (Ed.).
?Written by a panel of experts in the field, the book focuses on
proactive prevention, accurate evaluation, and progressive treatment
for delinquent juveniles and for juveniles caught in the web of a
contentious divorce or in the foster care system. The book contains
information about: statistics and trends in juvenile justice and
forensic psychology; juveniles in gangs; police and juveniles;
problematic confessions in children and adolescents; juveniles tried
as adults, social development in children and adolescents; conduct
disorder or disordered conduct?; the use and misuse of PTSD diagnosis
in juvenile forensic settings; psychosis in juvenile offenders;
neuropsychiatric vulnerabilities in serious juvenile offenders;
children who kill; the classroom avenger; multicultural issues in the
assessment and treatment of juveniles; evaluating juvenile competency
to waive Miranda rights?
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2248/is_149_38/ai_103381793

Although this article does not pertain to children per se, it may help
you understand the shortcomings of family court.
http://www.justicewomen.com/help_family_law.html


HIGH CONFLICT FAMILY COURT CASES AND THE EFFECT ON CHILDREN
http://www.clcct.org/biblio.html

Amazon.com has several books on PTSD and Children
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-1626582-8500738

Preparing Children for Court
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=VJ69EUuBOC&isbn=0761921826&itm=4


More books
http://www.divorce-education.com/research.htm

The Child Witness
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=VJ69EUuBOC&isbn=0803937725&TXT=Y&itm=10

My Sister?s Keeper
This book may also give you some insight
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=VJ69EUuBOC&isbn=0743454537&itm=1

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/getbook.php?isbn=0737302658&template=

PTSD + Children/Child Abuse
http://www.rjerrard.co.uk/law/brose/barry.htm


If this is not the type of information you were seeking, please
request an Answer Clarification, before rating, and I will be happy to
respond. Good luck with your project!

Regards, Crabcakes

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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Great answer.  I wish I could tip
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Subject: Re: Help me to begin my own research.
From: crabcakes-ga on 01 Aug 2005 10:46 PDT
 
Thank you Marilynann, for the 5 stars. I,m glad you found the
information useful. I'd be very interested in reading your finished
product!

Sincerely, Crabcakes
Subject: Re: Help me to begin my own research.
From: bookfinder-ga on 05 Sep 2005 10:53 PDT
 
Here are booklists I found at http://www.source4book.com for Children Court

http://www.source4book.com/SearchResult.aspx?SearchType=Title&SearchContent=Children%20for%20Court

Hope it helps.

bookfinder

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