Therapeutic jurisprudence means using the law and legal processes to improve people's well-being and mental health. It focuses on how the law can support and promote healing and positive outcomes for individuals involved in legal matters.
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Professor Perlmutter has published law review articles on the due process rights of foster children facing commitment to psychiatric facilities, the use
of therapeutic jurisprudence in clinical legal education, the constitutionality of shackling children in juvenile court, and children's medical privacy rights in juvenile and family court hearings.
Also see Rethinking the Assumptions of
Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Family Courts Custody Evaluator Quotes What's Wrong With Parenting Coordination Parenting Coordination issues Psychology in Family Court Custody Evaluators Lack Expertise Forensic Evaluators Lack Science Custody Evaluator Discovery Issues Collaborative Divorce Psychologists
Under any definition, increased child wellbeing has not been shown to flow from any of the ideas of
applied therapeutic jurisprudence, i.e. trade promotion, in the family courts.
[5] I take this expression from Linda Mills, in her essay «Affective Lawyering: Emotional Dimensions of the Lawyer - Client Relationship» in Stolle, Wexler, and Winick,
Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence, see note 66 above at 419.
Therapeutic jurisprudence coincided with other initiatives and methods meant to mitigate stress and trauma associated with the legal process, such as restorative justice, drug treatment courts, collaborative divorce and victim mediation, among others.
Mug shot of Dean Tong, former allegedly falsely accused «forensic consultant», and PAS (parental alienation excuse) and
therapeutic jurisprudence promoter, who after being accused in his own divorce case, started a business to help defend men accused of child sex abuse, domestic violence, and other charges, including as a freelance assistant to their lawyers.
Releasing Records in Child Custody Evaluations (J. Poliacoff) Signs of a Bad Custody Evaluation (J. Klass)
Therapeutic Jurisprudence Index Child Custody Evaluations — Reevaluating the Evaluators Right of First Refusal in Parenting Plans Child Custody Evaluators «In Their Own Words» Parenting Coordination, a bad idea Parenting Coordinator Practical Considerations Those Joint Custody Studies
He is currently pursuing a doctorate in psychology at Fielding's School of Leadership Studies and is a founding member of the International Society
for Therapeutic Jurisprudence.
Ezzie has a background in the law, and holds a PhD in
therapeutic jurisprudence and women's wellbeing.
She holds a PhD in
therapeutic jurisprudence and women's wellbeing.
In short, we collaborative professionals are carrying out the ideal of «
therapeutic jurisprudence.
I learned about restorative justice, the many forms of mediation, holistic law,
therapeutic jurisprudence, creative problem - solving and a dozen other approaches.
«Everything that is proposed here is possible under existing law,» says Wexler, also
a therapeutic jurisprudence consultant for the National Judicial Institute of Canada.
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence — an Oxymoron or an Aspiration?
«Unchain the Children:» Gault,
Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Shackling, Symposium: Forty Years After In Re Gault: Do Kangaroo Courts Still Rule?
Mental Health Law is an expanding area of law that deals with mental disability, civil commitment,
therapeutic jurisprudence, advocacy, sanism (discrimination against people who are mentally ill), etc..
The Use of
Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the TJ / Preventive Law Model in Law School Clinical Teaching in Juvenile and Family Law Clinics, Association of American Law Schools Conference on Clinical Legal Education, San Diego, CA, May 2004 (Perlmutter and Salisbury)
The converging main «vectors» of this movement are (1) collaborative law, (2) creative problem - solving, (3) holistic justice, (4) preventive law, (5) problem - solving courts, (6) procedural justice, (7) restorative justice, (8)
therapeutic jurisprudence, and (9) transformative mediation.
He is also working on a book about criminal layering, a criminal defense and advocacy - based form, in the context of
therapeutic jurisprudence.
She specializes in criminal law and procedure, and her areas of expertise include non-adversarial criminal justice,
therapeutic jurisprudence, philosophy of criminal law and the interface between criminal and constitutional law.
That notion is delusional, and it's a primary reason the past decade has seen such a phenomenal growth in custody litigation as well as the industry of bottom feeders purveying «
therapeutic jurisprudence».
During the past ten or fifteen years, the concept of «
therapeutic jurisprudence» has crept its way into our courtrooms.
Vitello, Corey J. «Stalking Laws,
Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Peacemaking Criminology: A Radical Law - Psychology Inquiry.»
Peebles, Jason E. «
Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Sentencing of Sexual Offenders in Canada.»