So you’re in a custody battle over your kids? Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to go into it, and WIN!

DR. GAIL ELLIOT

~~ Dr. Elliot is Head, Child Development and Family Processes Research, Bricklin Associates, the Vice Chair of the Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators and a psychologist in private practice. She has served as a consultant to public and private schools and coordinated multidisciplinary treatment plans. She was responsible for devising for Bricklin Associates an information-processing oriented educational therapy technique and a comprehensive college entrance service for children with serious motivational problems and low self-esteem problems.

~~Dr. Elliot authored a chapter on post-divorce research for The Custody Evaluation Handbook (Brunner/Mazel) and co-authored Parent Perception of Child Profile (PPCP), a widely used custody evaluation instrument. She was responsible for much of the research behind the Bricklin custody instruments, and is co-author with Dr. Bricklin of ACCESS (A Comprehensive Custody Evaluation Standard System) a start-to-finish procedure for conducting a comprehensive custody evaluation. In late 1997 Dr. Elliot co-authored, with Dr. Bricklin, The Bricklin/Elliot Child Custody Evaluation Home-Vist Booklet and authored Assessment of Parenting Skills: Infant and Preschooler (APSIP)

In 3 minutes, you can be making your strongest case for custody with the help of Dr. Elliot and Dr. Bricklin’s more than 30 years experience in the field.

FORWARD   ……….… 	INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTS BY DR. BRICKLIN AND DR. ELLIOT
CHAPTER 1………….. 	THE ROLE OF "BIAS"
CHAPTER 2………….. 	MOST FREQUENTLY MADE ERROR
CHAPTER 3………….. 	FOURTEEN KEY STRATEGIES
CHAPTER 4………….. 	THE SINGLE BIGGEST FALSE ASSUMPTION
CHAPTER 5………….. 	STRATEGIES THAT MAY BE USED AGAINST YOU
CHAPTER 6………….. 	IMPORTANT THINGS AN ATTORNEY SHOULD BE DOING FOR YOU
CHAPTER 7………….. 	STRATEGIES THAT WILL MAKE YOUR OWN ATTORNEY WORK HARDER FOR YOU
CHAPTER 8………….. 	THE BRIBED OR MANIPULATED CHILD
CHAPTER 9………….. 	A NOTE ABOUT PHYSICAL DISABILITY
CHAPTER 10…….….. 	CONTROLLING COSTS
CHAPTER 11…….….. 	WHAT IS THE BEST APPROACH FOR A PARENT TO USE IN A CHILD CUSTODY DISPUTE?
CHAPTER 12…….….. 	WHAT ARE THE COSTS OF A TYPICAL COMPREHENSIVE CUSTODY EVALUATION?
CHAPTER 13…….….. 	HOW CAN I MAKE SURE A CUSTODY EVALUATOR HAS THE PROPER EXPERTISE TO CARRY
                                  OUT A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION?
CHAPTER 14…….….. 	WHAT CAN I DO IF I BELIEVE AN EVALUATION WAS BIASED, INCOMPLETE OR
                                  INACCURATE?
CHAPTER 15…….….. 	SUMMARY AND MORE