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In child protection work, accurately understanding parenting capacity and risk is essential to safeguarding children. When parents are neurodivergent, their responses and behaviour can be misinterpreted if neurodevelopmental differences are not properly understood. This article explores how assumptions can shape professional thinking and how careful psychological assessment and formulation can help to clarify a parent's needs to help professionals and courts better understand them and make effective child-centred decisions for the future.
Family court work is high-stakes and time-limited, with significant implications for children’s safety and wellbeing. Where neurodivergence may be relevant to parenting, mental health or engagement with professionals, careful assessment can provide essential clarity. This piece explores why neurodevelopmental assessment, when clinically indicated, can be an important part of psychological understanding within the context and timescales of proceedings.
Parenting capacity is often assessed against implicit neurotypical expectations, which can obscure both strengths and vulnerabilities when parents are neurodivergent. This article explores how careful psychological formulation supports more accurate, child-centred understanding of parenting capacity in family court contexts.
Autism and ADHD are distinct neurodevelopmental profiles, each with different implications for parenting, stress and emotional regulation. This article explores why differentiating between them, including combined presentations is essential to accurate understanding in family court contexts.
Some parents involved in family court proceedings have additional learning difficulties or a learning disability, sometimes alongside neurodivergence, mental health difficulties or trauma. This article explores why careful psychological understanding of these intersecting factors is essential to accurately assessing parenting capacity and safeguarding children.
Family court work often involves complex, overlapping needs that cannot be understood through surface behaviour alone. This article explores how expert psychological formulation supports clearer, fairer and more child-centred understanding in high-stakes child protection contexts.
