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This requires a multi-method approach ( Graham, 2011), consisting of a clinical interview and psychometric measurements. Moreover, in forensic contexts intentionally biased responses should always be suspected, which in this context entails a differential diagnosis of feigning. Among the latter we find the clinical conditions (psychopathology and psychological adjustment) on account of their potential effect on a parent's capacity to attend to the wellbeing and needs of their children ( American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2010 Martindale, Martin, Austin, & the Task Force Members, 2007 Arce, Arch, Fariña, Muñoz, & Seijo, 2016), leading in severe cases to parents losing child custody ( Arce, Fariña, & Seijo, 2005). Parenting skills are evaluated to identify childrearing skills, and assess the repercussions of poor parenting abilities. The primary objective of the guidelines governing the procedures of forensic psychologist in cases involving parental child custody litigation is to evaluate the wellbeing and needs of the child, the parenting skills required to satisfying these needs, and the adjustment between both. Keywords: Child custody dispute MMPI-2 Clinical scales Restructured scales Separation Parental attributes The implications of the results for forensic evaluation practices are discussed. Parent gender was studied as a moderator having no found differences between the responses of mothers and fathers.
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The results showed positive, significant and generalizable mean true effect size in the Hy, Pd and Pa scales a negative, significant and generalizable in the Ma and Si scales, and non-generalizable in the Pt y Sc scales and a trivial mean true effect size in the Hs and D scales. A total of 21 primary studies (studies with a simulation design i.e., participants were instructed to answer as parents litigating by child custody were found were disregarded) were found, obtaining 291 effect sizes for clinical scales and 1 for restructured scales. With the aim of knowing the responses of parents litigating by child custody, a meta-analytic review of the responses to clinical and restructured scales was performed. The worldwide reference psychometric measurement instrument for this purpose is the MMPI. Additionally, defensiveness must be suspected on this setting. Parental attribute evaluation in relation to child custody comprises psychological and psychopathology.