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1 New Subparagraph; Required Risk Assessment. Amend RSA 461-A:4, II by inserting after subparagraph (h) the following new subparagraph:
(i) Court-ordered risk assessments.
2 New Section; Court-Ordered Risk Assessments. Amend RSA 461-A by inserting after section 6 the following new section:
461-A:6-a Court-Ordered Risk Assessments.
I. In contested divorce proceedings where a minor child under the age of 18 years rejects or is being withheld from a parent, the court shall order a risk assessment within 14 days of the initial petition for divorce, the cost of which shall be borne equally by the parties. The risk assessment shall be performed by a clinical psychologist credentialed in scientific research of and applied knowledge in the following areas:
(a) Family systems therapy to assess family conflict.
(b) Attachment pathology to assess a child rejecting a parent.
(c) Trauma pathology to assess possible child abuse or spousal abuse.
(d) Personality pathology to assess possible narcissistic-borderline-dark personality pathology.
(e) Child development to assess childhood pathology across multiple child developmental levels.
(f) Self-psychology to assess psychological development of children within the parent-child relationships.
II. A risk assessment order shall include the following constructs to be evaluated:
(a) A possible shared shared/induced persecutory delusion.
(b) A possible factitious attachment pathology being imposed on the child for secondary gain to the parent.
(c) A possible psychological child abuse.
(d) A parent-child relational problem.
(e) A child affected by parental relationship distress.
(f) Identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion.
(g) Possible spousal psychological abuse of one parent using the child's induced pathology as the spousal abuse weapon.
III. The risk assessment shall be performed within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 8 weeks after the order.
IV. The court shall require the clinical psychologist to include in their report a diagnosis and treatment plan, and the court's order shall include a directive that appropriate medical standards and mandatory ethics codes of all psychologists shall apply.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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1 New Subparagraph; Required Risk Assessment. Amend RSA 461-A:4, II by inserting after subparagraph (h) the following new subparagraph:
(i) Court-ordered risk assessments.
2 New Section; Court-Ordered Risk Assessments. Amend RSA 461-A by inserting after section 6 the following new section:
461-A:6-a Court-Ordered Risk Assessments.
I. In contested divorce proceedings where a minor child under the age of 18 years rejects or is being withheld from a parent, the court shall order a risk assessment within 14 days of the initial petition for divorce, the cost of which shall be borne equally by the parties. The risk assessment shall be performed by a clinical psychologist credentialed in scientific research of and applied knowledge in the following areas:
(a) Family systems therapy to assess family conflict.
(b) Attachment pathology to assess a child rejecting a parent.
(c) Trauma pathology to assess possible child abuse or spousal abuse.
(d) Personality pathology to assess possible narcissistic-borderline-dark personality pathology.
(e) Child development to assess childhood pathology across multiple child developmental levels.
(f) Self-psychology to assess psychological development of children within the parent-child relationships.
II. A risk assessment order shall include the following constructs to be evaluated:
(a) A possible shared shared/induced persecutory delusion.
(b) A possible factitious attachment pathology being imposed on the child for secondary gain to the parent.
(c) A possible psychological child abuse.
(d) A parent-child relational problem.
(e) A child affected by parental relationship distress.
(f) Identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion.
(g) Possible spousal psychological abuse of one parent using the child's induced pathology as the spousal abuse weapon.
III. The risk assessment shall be performed within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 8 weeks after the order.
IV. The court shall require the clinical psychologist to include in their report a diagnosis and treatment plan, and the court's order shall include a directive that appropriate medical standards and mandatory ethics codes of all psychologists shall apply.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.