Robin M. Deutsch, PhD, ABPP is the Director of the Center of Excellence for Children, Families and
the Law at William James College.
Formerly an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard
Medical School, she practices as a custody evaluator, mediator, parent
coordinator, therapist and consultant. Dr. Deutsch lectures widely
throughout North America and Europe on Parenting Coordination, parenting
and child development and complex issues related to family conflict,
including parent-child contact problems, attachment, abuse and neglect
and trauma. She has published extensively on issues related to
attachment, alienation, co-parenting after divorce, high conflict
divorce, parenting plans and parenting coordination. Dr. Deutsch has
performed a wide variety of forensic evaluations and testified in
juvenile, family, district and federal courts involving divorce and
visitation disputes, relocation, domestic violence, adoption,
alienation, abuse and neglect. She provides consultation and expert
witness services on boundary violations, ethical issues, child and
adolescent development, complex custody issues and custody and parenting
evaluations. Dr. Deutsch was a member of the American Psychological
Association (APA) task force that developed Guidelines for Parenting Coordinators (2011), the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Task Force that developed Guidelines for Parenting Coordinators (2006), and the AFCC Task force that developed Guidelines for Court Involved Therapists (2010). She was the former President of the AFCC (2008-2009) and the former Chair of the APA Ethics Committee (2007).