You have been asked by a Family Court judge to evaluate the mother and father of two boys (ages 12 & 14)
and one girl (age 10) who are going through a vicious divorce situation plus a potential foster couple and
offer your expert recommendations for the judge to consider on who should get custody of the children.
The mother works as an exotic club dancer in the evenings and has a history of drug abuse. The father
suffers from PTSD and is an alcoholic. This is a Hispanic family that is also Catholic. The foster couple are
Black & adhere to Moslem beliefs. They have cared for other foster children. How would you go about
determining the fitness or lack of fitness of each person (mother, father, and foster couple) using
assessment tools and doing a clinical interview? What recommendations would you make to the judge in
your report as a forensic psychologist in charge of evaluating this family? This essay paper is worth 20
points. You will be graded on thoroughness
(assessment tools you would use and what scales you would look at, what questions you would ask during
the interview process, and your recommendations). Many students in the past have given names to the
different individuals and scores on the different scales so they could use the information during their
interview.
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