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- Title
How my role as a guardian ad litem has changed with the increase of mental health diagnoses in adolescents.
- Authors
Freed, Samantha
- Abstract
The author details how the increase of mental health diagnoses in teenagers have impacted role her role as a guardian ad litem (GAL) in Virginia. Topics include the standards that GAL must adhere in their representation and protection of the child's best interests, key questions that guide and inform her GAL work with teenagers such as effective communication with a teenager with serious mental health problem, and situations that she tries to avoid.
- Subjects
GUARDIANS ad litem; MENTAL health of teenagers; GUARDIAN &; ward; CHILD welfare; DOMESTIC relations
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2023, Vol 61, Issue 3, p504
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fcre.12732