Psychologists who conduct child custody evaluations take their practices into a most challenging and stressful area. This study surveyed the 61 member boards of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) about number and category of child custody complaints in the last decade, number of findings against psychologists, and related disciplinary action. Results reveal that psychologists who accept work in this area are extremely likely to also encounter the anguish of defending a related licensure board complaint at some point.

This study summarizes a survey of experienced North American parenting coordinators (PCs). The survey was modeled after a similar seminal study of child custody evaluators (Keilen & Bloom, 1986) and seeks to establish a similar baseline standard in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) court-sanctioned PC practices. Results reveal that PC is being practiced across North America by highly experienced practitioners that are multidisciplinary across legal and mental health professions who work by court order. These PCs work with a specific written PC agreement that specifies basis of authority, scope of authority, terms of service, retainer/fees, and grievance procedures. Results characterize PC as an increasingly established hybrid ADR court-sanctioned role that is effective precisely because of accessibility to families, the unique knowledge base of the family law professional concerning the dynamics of divorcing families, and the court-granted authority to help families resolve disputes that are generally more familial and psychological than legal in nature.

Problematic headache is highly prevalent among patients with HIV/AIDS, most of which conform to the semiology of chronic migraine, although with some atypical features such as bilateral location and pressing/tightening quality. A low frequency of identifiable secondary causes is likely attributable to reduced frequency of opportunistic infections in the current era of HAART. Disease severity is strongly predictive of headache, highlighting the importance of physician attention to headache symptoms and of patient adherence to treatment.

A skills-acquisition treatment for test anxiety was compared with two anxietyreduction conditions, cue-controlled relaxation and meditation, and a practiceonly group in terms of improved test performance. Fifty highly test-anxious subjects representing the most anxious 28% of 232 undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of the four experimental conditions. The three treatment groups received five 90-min training sessions while the practice-only group was given an equal amount of time in practice on a posttreatment analogue test. Results indicated that the skills-acquisition group was superior to the other three conditions in terms of performance on the analogue test as well as grade point average. In addition it was determined that the skills-acquisition group reported greater knowledge of effective test-taking skills and less attentional interference during testing than the other groups. Measures of heart rate and pulse transit time during the analogue testing situation failed to reveal significant group differences. It is suggested that the term test anxiety be retired and that inadequate test performance be reconceptualized as ineffective test taking.