Handbook of Child Custody

This Handbook addresses current issues, including assessment of mental illness, alcoholism/drug abuse, child abuse and special issues, including assessment of gay and lesbian parents, supervised visitation, overnight visitation, relocation and joint versus sole legal custody. This volume offers an in-depth approach to child custody evaluations, consisting of separate chapters on objective and projective testing, as well as chapters on parenting inventories and the Bricklin scale. The chapter on the Bricklin scale is written by Barry Bricklin himself. The Handbook also includes judicial and lawyer perspectives, as well as extensive case studies for the reader.