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Keeping Kids Out Of The Middle (Garber, 2008)

Put the CHILD back in
"best-interests-of-the-child"
litigation

Developmental Psychology For Family Law Professionals

Legal remedies that understand and anticipate
child and family development.

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"Dr. Garber's book will not make it on to my bookcase.
That is because it will not leave my desk.
It is the best and most useful social science text I have read in a decade
and will assist me in making many decisions about children.

It is comprehensive in its research and scope,
clearly written and uses excellent case examples
to illustrate in simple terms what might otherwise be complex phenomena.

It is a highly desirable addition to the library of
the committed family law professional and
contains some delightful surprises.

The final chapter is an absolute gem!"

Dr Tom Altobelli
FederalMagistrate
Family Law Courts,Sydney Australia

Preface
Acknowledgement
PART I: ONE SIZE CAN NEVER FIT ALL

1. Why a Perspective on Child and Family Development?
2. Caveat Lector: On the Limitations and Relevance of Developmental
Theory, Statistics, and Methods

PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY IN OVERVIEW

3. Cognitive Development
4. Language Development
5. Social and Emotional Development
6. The Child’s Defense Mechanisms: Regression, Stress, and Impediments
to Developmental Capacity
7. Developmental Asynchrony and Decalage

PART III: IN THE BEST DEVELOPMENTAL INTERESTS OF THE CHILD:
TOPICS IN SEPARATION, VISITATION, AND REUNIFICATION

8. A Child’s Understanding of Time, Separation, and Loss

Read an excerpt from Chapter 8

9. Custodial Schedules and Infant Overnights
10. On Visitation Resistance and Refusal
11. Growing Up Apart: Child–Parent Separation
12. Development and Parent–Child Reunification
13. Development and the Termination of Parental Rights

PART IV: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTAL
THEORY TO FAMILY LAW PRACTICE

14. What Is a “Mature Minor”?
15. Psychological Assessment and Diagnosis in Family Law
16. Alienation, Estrangement, and Alignment: The Tools and Weapons of
Affiliation
17. Development in the Mirror: On Becoming (and Remaining) a Family
Law Professional

APPENDICES
Appendix I:

Learn More Now: Agencies, Organizations, and Experts

Appendix II:

Preserving Families, Serving Children’s Needs, and Building

our Shared Future: A Proposal for a National Program of Continuing Parent
Education

Appendix III:

Select Resources for Involuntary Separation: Incarcerated, Enlisted,

or Hospitalized Parents

Appendix IV:

Mentoring Youth: Anchoring Kids Cast Adrift

Appendix V:

On Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Vicarious Traumatization

References
Index

"I am humbled by the awesome responsibility that faces me every time that I look into a child’s eyes.

I am aware that the words that I speak can shape or shatter a child’s hope,
that the recommendations that I offer can raze or renew a child’s trust,
and that the decisions that I make can ruin or redeem a child’s future.

I am committed to understanding each child as an individual with unique and invaluable
strengths and weaknesses, wishes and needs.

I accept this responsibility fully aware that I will make mistakes,
genuinely committed to learn from my mistakes, and confident that there is no greater cause than that of our children."

Benjamin D. Garber, Ph.D.

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