TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN IN SUPERVISED VISITATION |
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| Authors: | Janet R. Johnston Robert B. Straus |
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| Affiliation: | Janet R. Johnston is an associate professor at San Jose State University, Administration of Justice Department. She has coauthored several books in the area of children and divorce and is currently the executive director of the Judith Wallerstein Center for the Family in Transition in Marin County, California.; Robert B. Straus is a lawyer and psychologist in private practice in Cambridge. Massachusetts. He has coauthored the standard guidelines for supervised visitation practice and is currently director of Meeting Place: Supervised Child Access Service. |
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| Abstract: | This article reviews the range of trauma experienced by many children in supervised visitation services and describes common themes in the development of their personalities from clinical and research findings. It then proposes a series of ways to structure supervised access services in order to help children feel psychologically safe in the relationship with the visited parent. |
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