ATA provides several services to parents and children involved in the legal system. These services are available to families who are coping with issues such as:
•Child welfare issues of parenting capability
•Custody questions where there are allegations of sexual abuse
•The child(ren) have, or, are about to be removed from the home
•The child(ren) experienced physical and/or sexual abuse
•Problems with a child or adolescent engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior
•Parents and children attempting to reunite after a child or children has been removed
from the home.
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| Forensic Evaluation Services
Parenting Capacity Evaluations
What is Parenting Capacity?
Parenting capacity is a broadly defined term that refers to the ability of parents to meet their children's needs. The assessment of parenting capacity is crucial to child-protection concerns and often an essential task in psychological evaluations for family law proceedings.
What is a parenting capacity evaluation?
The objective of Parenting Capacity Assessments is to establish as accurately as possible whether or not parents are adequately equipped to provide appropriate and stable emotional and physical care to their children.
Bonding Evaluations
A bonding evaluation is a specialized type of assessment whose goal is to determine the nature and quality of the child’s attachments to birth and/or foster parents, to address the question of who occupies the position of greatest centrality in a child’s emotional life. This is roughly equivalent to determining which adult(s) serve as the “psychological parent” to the child. Also to be considered is the parent’s ability to provide an environment conducive to the child’s developmental needs.
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