Parent-Child Interaction: Forensic and Psychological Expert Evaluations

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Abstract

In our scientific work we tested a methodology for studying child’s interaction with his/her cohabitant parent and the one living away. The methodology is integrated into the compre-hensive forensic, psychological and psychiatric examination which is carried out during family law cases between divorcing parents and is aimed to decide the child’s place of resi-dence or visiting arrangements for the separated parent. The methodology protocol includes sociodemographic parameters, expert decisions and two datasets on the child-parent rela-tionship found during the forensic examination and interaction test. 66 children aged 4-15 have been examined. Of those, 28 children (23 boys, 5 girls) were incapable to make their own decisions on the issues that might affect them (due to the induced state they were in as a result of the cohabitant parent’s actions). The 38 remaining children’s (17 boys, 21 girls) abilities to make their own decisions were intact. The research isolated highly informative interaction peculiarities that are typical for the children who are unable to make their own decisions on the substance of the litigation and also demonstrated their high importance for expert diagnostics.

General Information

Keywords: comprehensive forensic, psychological and psychiatric examination, forensic and psycho-logical examination, interests of a child, child-parent relationship, interaction test

Journal rubric: Legal Psychology of Childhood

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2022120110

Received: 09.10.2021

Accepted:

For citation: Safuanov F.S., Savina O.F., Morozova M., Kalashnikova A., Kulakov S., Perepravina J.O., Zabezhinskaya I., Malinovskaya M., Soldatova K.M., Bodrova O. Parent-Child Interaction: Forensic and Psychological Expert Evaluations [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologiya i pravo = Psychology and Law, 2022. Vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 115–132. DOI: 10.17759/psylaw.2022120110. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Farit S. Safuanov, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of Chair of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Department of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Head of the Laboratory of Psychology, Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-7956, e-mail: safuanovf@rambler.ru

Olga F. Savina, PhD in Psychology, Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7548-5239, e-mail: psyhol1@yandex.ru

Marina Morozova, PhD in Psychology, senior Researcher Laboratory of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3788-209X, e-mail: ekspertiza21@mail.ru

Anna Kalashnikova, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Chief Public Relations Specialist, V. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3139-5511

Sergey Kulakov, Researcher of the laboratory of psychology, Federal medical research center of psychiatry and addiction of the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0203-1332, e-mail: novik_010979@mail.ru

Julia O. Perepravina, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Lecturer, Department of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5702-7499, e-mail: yuliaperepravina@gmail.com

Irina Zabezhinskaya, Medical Psychologist, Department of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8757-5971, e-mail: iriza@live.ru

Marina Malinovskaya, Medical Psychologist, Krasnoyarsk Regional Psychoneurological Clinic no. 1, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0361-1272, e-mail: marchi26@mail.ru

Ksenia M. Soldatova, Research Assistant, Laboratory of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4908-5821, e-mail: memoridzata@mail.ru

Olga Bodrova, Research Assistant Laboratory of Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7585-7821, e-mail: olgabodr@gmail.com

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