by John Caccavale, Ph.D.
Child custody evaluations, while initially designed to provide family court judges with unbiased information and data with respect to custody related issues, has become a major profit center for mental health evaluators. Under the guise of “unbiased” assessment, there appears to be a significant departure from real ethical practice. Psychological and psychiatric evaluators have become part of an expansive business enterprise where the interests of children many times is secondary to “How much can I get for this eval?”
This presentation will focus on how professional ethics have become subservient to business interests and some possible solutions to a major contributor to the broken family court system.