Dr. Barry Bricklin's and Dr. Gail Elliot's Biographies and
Credentials
Dr. Bricklin is a psychologist in private practice. He is an Adjunct
Associate Professor at Widener University and has previously served on the faculty of
Jefferson University and of Hahnneman University. He has served as a consultant in
psychology to the Walter Reed Army Hospital Research Center, to the United States Army, to
the New York Academy of Medicine, and to the Columbia Broadcasting System.
He is past president of the Philadelphia Society for Personality Assessment and the
Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists.
He has authored books and articles on prognosis in schizophrenia, marital
compatibility, epilepsy, the psychology of affiliation, predicting violence and
aggression, diet techniques, role-play techniques, hypnosis in surgery, the intercultural
use of the Rorschach test, and, of course, custody evaluations.
Among the results of his cooperative ventures with his wife Dr. Patricia M. Bricklin are
numerous articles and three books. Two of their books have been best sellers, Bright
Child-Poor Grades: The Psychology of Underachievement, and Strong Family-Strong Child.
Dr. Bricklin created the original scoring scheme for the Hand Test, and co-authored, with
Dr. Zygmunt A. Pietrowski, several articles on prognostic criteria for persons suffering
from schizophrenia.
For over 25 years, Dr. Bricklin has developed various data-based approaches to the
decisions which must be made when parents divorce.
Dr. Bricklin's book, The Custody Evaluation Handbook is published by Brunner/Mazel and is
currently in wide-spread use by mental health professionals in the United States and
Canada.
Dr. Bricklin is presently Chair of the Executive Operating Committee of the Professional
Academy of Custody Evaluators (PACE).
For more information about Dr. Bricklin and Dr. Elliot's
Effective Child Custody Help System, which can save you thousands of
dollars and keep your child from potential abuse, please click here.
Dr. Elliot is head of Child Development and Family Processes Research,
Bricklin Associates, the Vice Chair of the Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators and
a psychologist in private practice.
She has served as a consultant to public and private schools and coordinated
multidisciplinary treatment plans.
She was responsible for devising for Bricklin Associates an information-processing
oriented educational therapy technique and a comprehensive college entrance service for
children with serious motivational problems and low self-esteem problems.
Dr. Elliot authored a chapter on post-divorce research for The Custody Evaluation Handbook
(Brunner/Mazel) and co-authored Parent Perception of Child Profile (PPCP), a widely used
custody evaluation instrument.
She was responsible for much of the research behind the Bricklin custody instruments,
and is co-author with Dr. Bricklin of ACCESS (A Comprehensive Custody Evaluation Standard
System) a start-to-finish procedure for conducting a comprehensive custody evaluation.
In late 1997 Dr. Elliot co-authored, with Dr. Bricklin, The Bricklin/Elliot Child
Custody Evaluation Home-Visit Booklet and authored Assessment of Parenting Skills: Infant
and Preschooler (APSIP) .
For more information about Dr. Bricklin and Dr. Elliot's
Effective Child Custody Help System, , which can save you thousands of
dollars and keep your child from potential abuse, please click here.
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