(All identities are composites of multiple cases or identifying information has been obscured) Contents:The Court-Involved Therapist (CIT)Case 1What did this CIT do wrong?Forensic and Therapeutic Role conflictPsychotherapy and High Conflict DivorceA forensically informed therapistCase 2Guidelines for Court-Involved TherapistsChild Therapists in Court-Involved Cases Role Boundaries for the CITGuidelines and StandardsCase 3A […]
Category: Divorce and the Family
PRESENTATION TO THE SMILE PROGRAM Larry M. Friedberg, Ph.D. I guess the reason I’m here, rather than some other psychologist, or therapist, is that I’m a specialist on divorce. I’ve worked with hundreds of couples, and maybe 1000 children during a divorce and after divorce. I know that going through a divorce […]
I have been thinking a lot about some basic questions which pertain to the work I do as a custody evaluator, mediator and parenting coordinator. Most important and puzzling is the question: Why do disputing parties in high conflict divorce treat each other as enemies? And why do they use their children as […]