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Psychological model for judicial decision making in emergency or temporary child placement
M Ballou1, J Barry, K Billingham
1Department of Counseling Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., USA.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|February 2, 2002
Abstract:
In emergencies, family court judges must often make rapid decisions, without benefit of thorough information, that have significant impact on people's lives. Action-oriented research was used to develop a model that would bring psychosocial factors to the legal system for the purpose of enhancing the judicial decision-making process in emergency and temporary child placement cases.