Abstract

VEIGA, Camila Valadares da; SOARES, Laura Cristina Eiras Coelho  and  SOUZA, Fernanda Hermínia Oliveira. PSYCHOLOGY IN FAMILY COURTS: (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF SHARED CUSTODY. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2022, vol.34, n.3, pp.577-597.  Epub Aug 02, 2024. ISSN 0103-5665.  https://doi.org/10.33208/pc1980-5438v0034n03a07.

This article considers, from the perspective of social forensic psychology, the role of psychologists in family courts. The focus was on the practice of joint custody, its use by the courts, the attendant psychological practices and their effects on family relations. The aim of the work was to analyze how legislative and social changes have affected custody demands and how psychologists assigned to family courts deal with these suits. As methodology, a content analysis was carried out on interviews with ten psychologists in a court in the Brazilian Southeast. The need to distinguish conjugality from parenthood was noticeable, as well as clarifying the custody models established in the Brazilian legal system. Hegemonic modes of parenting and gender expression still influence family relationships, and legislative changes tend to affect the subjectivity of those involved and encourage a judicialization of life. Thus, it becomes necessary to adopt a critical, ethical and interventional stance to stimulate the deconstruction of traditional conservative paradigms regarding the exercise of parenthood, in order to help families handle the post-divorce.

Keywords : family relations; divorce; parenthood; forensic psychology; custody of children.

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