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High Conflict Family Court Cases: Working for the Child's Best Interests
Author(s) -
Read Lorraine
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2003.tb00549.x
Subject(s) - best interests , project commissioning , family court , best practice , family therapy , publishing , psychology , work (physics) , child custody , public relations , political science , sociology , social psychology , engineering ethics , law , psychotherapist , criminology , engineering , mechanical engineering
High levels of parental conflict in separated families can have a devastating impact on children and their development. This paper describes the challenges inherent in the notion of ‘the best interests of the child’ in high conflict cases. It proposes an ethical framework which can guide family therapy work through the labyrinth of adult interest towards solutions which promote the interests of these children. A case example illustrates how this framework is put into clinical practice.