Legal Psychology

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment? In Objection, psychologists Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick examine disgust and its impact on the legal system to show why the things that we find stomach-turning so often become the things that we render unlawful.

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health, and well-being level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to adulthood, it offers parents and professionals clear, evidence-based information about online harms and their effects and what they can do to support their child.

In divorce, people need to attend to the psychological aspects as they work to adapt to all the other new realities of a post-divorce world. Sam Margulies, an expert in mediation, here suggests that mediation is the best method for accomplishing these tasks. He details what everyone must do to make divorce a less painful process, with a minimum of suffering, especially for the children involved.