Expert Medico-legal psychologists across Brighton and Sussex
With extensive experience in providing assessments and reports for adolescents within the Secure Estate, as well as expert witness assessments in the Family Court, Dr Sleyster offers an independent expert service that provides assessments and reports, advice, and recommendations, including specialist therapeutic interventions.
We offer an independent expert service to support:
· Local Authorities
· Guardians and CAFCASS
· Independent Reviewing Officers
· The Court
· Parents
Areas of medico-legal assessment
We provide assessments in the Family Court of:
· Children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing, and their needs
· The impact of trauma, neglectful or abusive parenting, and parental alienation
· Children and teenagers’ attachments to their parents and to each other
· Parenting capacity, their insight, reflective abilities, and understanding of risk and safeguarding
· Parents’ potential for change and ability to prioritise the child or adolescent’s needs
· Therapeutic need and what therapeutic interventions may be needed
· Contact and residence arrangements
Dr Sleyster can attend Family Court Hearings and provide further information on mental health, trauma, or risk.
