The negative connotations of courtroom proceedings are becoming a little more positive, thanks to a UA professor’s conceptual approach. Contrary to popular belief, legal proceedings actually have the ...

The basic assumption of TJ is that the law, as applied, can have both therapeutic outcomes, which should be encouraged, and antitherapeutic ones, which should be minimized. For Wexler, the courtroom ...

It may seem that therapy and law do not share a common bond, but one University of Arizona law professor is making that connection by developing a body of knowledge to prove that legal proceedings can ...

The words therapeutic jurisprudence sound like a contradiction in terms. Far too many court cases for parental alienation only increase anxiety, depression and anger for the litigants, and often for ...

When one parent alienates children from the other parent, the outcome can so seriously harm the child that alienation is now considered child abuse. Yet the courts in most instances misunderstand ...

Politics and the Life Sciences is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal with a global audience. PLS is owned and published by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, the APLS, which ...

As mental health awareness continues to gain momentum in society at large, the legal system is adapting to incorporate these insights into the fabric of family law jurisprudence. The landscape of ...

Dr Hugh Koch, Professor Christian Diesen, Dr Tom Boyd, and Nicole Hampton discuss the use of therapeutic jurisprudence and total quality management in civil litigation There is a growing interest in ...