About Robin M. Lynch PhD
I am appointed to the NYS Appellate Division’s panel of child custody evaluators and Chair of the New York State Psychological Association’s Child Custody Evaluation Committee, (CCEC). CCEC is committed to advancing the court’s ability to identify abuse, addiction and trauma in contested child custody disputes and to increasing the court’s understanding of the dynamics these conditions create. Child custody disputes are the most elemental form of complex conflict, i.e., conflict that is expansive, polarizing, destructive, and immune to mediation, (what I refer to here as Type Three conflicts) I hope that what is learned from their analysis will serve to help diminish the effect of Type Three conflicts generally. My article in JCC, Unmasking the Abuse: Psychological Defenses in Child Custody Disputes, describes my theoretical orientation and is reprinted here in my ebook.
I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University in Social Psychology, where I was a research assistant for the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, (ICCCR). I am Past-President of The Forensic Division of the New York State Psychological Association, (NYSPA) and I am on the American Psychological Association’s “Effective Providers” panel which is developing new means for identifying and treating abused and traumatized children.
Many individuals from legal and psychological backgrounds were supportive of this site, but I am solely responsible for its content. The content is copyrighted.
CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING AND OTHERWISE SUPPORTING CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROGRAMS IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND SCHOOLS: TRY ASSOCIATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION (ACR) https://www.acrnet.org AS A GOOD RESOURCE FOR STARTING A CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER