We offer legally instructed psychological assessments for the family court. Our assessments involve face-to-face appointments offered over at least two separate occasions, wherever possible. We believe this to be an ethical and robust approach to psychological assessment to assist informed decision-making.

 

We are able to carry out assessments of individuals (adults, parents, adolescents and children) and global family assessments.  Our assessments can cover issues including, but not limited to:

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• Parenting capacity

• Parental capacity to change

• Parent-child attachment relationship

• Child, adolescent and adult mental health

• Parental mental health, including interpersonal difficulties and complex trauma

• Impact of parental mental health, substance misuse and domestic violence on parenting capacity and child development

• Impact of child maltreatment and developmental trauma, including emotional physical and sexual abuse and neglect

• Cognitive assessment of adults and adolescents

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We understand the distressing nature of Family Court proceedings for caregivers and their children and therefore adopt a compassionate, transparent and evidence-based approach to our assessments.