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Ethical Issues of Psychological Expert Testimony in Child Custody Cases: A Comparison of Ethical Approaches

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11270%2F20%3A10422590" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11270/20:10422590 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11210/20:10422590

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=~t7c1aAGHd" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=~t7c1aAGHd</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/pir.2020.0108" target="_blank" >10.11621/pir.2020.0108</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Ethical Issues of Psychological Expert Testimony in Child Custody Cases: A Comparison of Ethical Approaches

  • Original language description

    Background. Both authors are working on the Board of Ethics of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society. They face a recurring pattern of complaints, where one parent in the multilateral contractual field of the child custody domain complains about the psychological report in their case, including the psychologist&apos;s procedure, conduct, partiality, etc. The child custody domain is under Civil Law jurisdiction, where psychologists serving as expert witnesses report their evaluations at the request of the court. Objective. To point out some of societal and professional challenges confronting psychologists as expert witnesses in child custody cases. To improve ethical awareness in this area of psychological expert witness practice. Design. We compiled an overview of the complaints obtained by the Board of Ethics of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society from 2013 to 2019, against psychologists who served as expert witnesses in child custody cases in the Czech Republic. We then compared these complaints with the ethical norms established by the Czech Code of Ethics of the Psychological Profession; the recommendations of the European Federation of Psychologists&apos; Associations (EFPA) (c f.., The European psychologist in forensic work and as expert witness); and the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) (c.f., Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Family Law Proceedings). Results and Conclusions. Testimony by psychological experts in child custody cases is occurring in the context of societal changes and political decisions concerning child custody arrangements, and the best interests of the child in the context of gender neutral laws. Several ethical concerns seem to be of special importance: 1) the &quot;psychological best interest of the child&quot; in the multilateral contractual field; 2) the purpose and contribution of psychological expert testimony in child custody cases; 3) the role, task, and responsibility of the expert witness, including establishing working alliances and parallel processes; 4) the appropriate allocation of responsibilities in the multilateral contractual field; and 5) the ethics of reflexivity, responsibility, and courage. The &quot;complaint bias&quot; is discussed.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Psychology in Russia: State of the Art

  • ISSN

    2074-6857

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    13

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

  • Number of pages

    17

  • Pages from-to

    82-98

  • UT code for WoS article

    000560892200008

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database