This paper presents information on how psychologists can fulfill expert roles in the areas of separation, divorce, custody, family violence, and child abuse. Additionally, this paper also provides a list of key ethical guidelines that should be understood and followed by psychologists as well as a list of the typical components of a retainer agreement. This paper was presented at LESA’s Family Law – Getting the Most Out of Your Experts program on April 27, 2013.

This paper discusses the types of interventions conducted by a parenting expert, which are classified as either evaluative interventions or therapeutic interventions. It provides an overview of the following types of evaluative interventions: informal and formal triage, views of the child, parent psychological evaluation, child/adolescent psychological evaluation, focused assessments, and arbitration. It also examines the following therapeutic interventions: educational sessions, mediation, parent counselling, divorce counselling, child counselling, family counselling, and remedial facilitated access. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Custody and Access 2018 program in Edmonton on March 6, 2018 and in Calgary on March 13, 2018.