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Development and validation of the Family Law DOORS

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posted on 2016-11-01, 00:00 authored by Jennifer McintoshJennifer Mcintosh, Y Wells, J Lee
When former spouses experience distress and dispute following separation, risks to well-being and to safety are heightened for all family members. Reliable family-wide risk screening is essential. The Family Law DOORS (Detection of Overall Risk Screen) is a 3-part screening framework to assist identification, evaluation, and response to safety and well-being risks in separated families. Uniquely, the Family Law DOORS screens for victimization and perpetration risks and appraises infant and child developmental risk. The Family Law DOORS self-report screening tool is the subject of this report. Internal scale reliability and concurrent and external criterion validity for the Family Law DOORS were estimated with a community sample of 660 separated parents, including 181 mother-father pairs. Overall psychometric properties are strong and demonstrate good potential for the Family Law DOORS to support early risk detection for separating families. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Journal

Psychological assessment

Volume

28

Issue

11

Pagination

1516 - 1522

Publisher

American Psychological Association

Location

Washington, D.C.

eISSN

1939-134X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, American Psychological Association

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