Specific chapters address: the general or common court system; the powers of the court and the
rights of parents and children in child maltreatment cases; the interplay between child maltreatment legislation and caseworker
practice; the
juvenile court process; the criminal court process; domestic relations and other court proceedings; the issues involved in going to court, including the rules of evidence, court reports, and testifying; the relationship between caseworkers and the court; and court improvement and best
practices.
Activities and Play, Addiction, Administration, Adolescents, Attachment, Assessment / Outcomes, Behaviour, Boundaries, Bullying / Teen violence, Child Abuse, Children's
Rights, Community, Competence, Conflict, Culture / Society, CYC: The Profession, Delinquency, Development, Discipline, Education, Engaging, Ethics, Family, Foster Care, History, Humour, Intervention,
Juvenile Detention, Life Space Work, Love, Milieu, New CYC Workers, Outdoor Education, Parents and Parenting, Peers, Philosophy,
Practice, Programs, Punishment, Relational
Practice, Residential Care, Resilience, Restorative
Practice, Runaways / Homelessness, School, Self, Sexual Issues, Strengths, Stress and Self - care, Success, Supervision, Theories, Therapy, Training, Transitions, Treatment, Voices of Youth, Youth crime and
Juvenile Justice
Ms. DeTorres concentrates her
practice in family law cases, including divorce, custody, grandparent's
rights,
juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and DYFS cases, and is a trained family mediator.