Christine Darsney, Ph.D.

Dr. Christine Darsney is a pediatric forensic psychologist who has been on the staff of the Children and the Law Program at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1997. In that capacity, Dr. Darsney has conducted over a hundred Guardian ad Litem evaluations in conflicted custody cases, and has served as an expert witness for cases involving child custody, child sexual abuse, attachment and bonding, child abuse and neglect, and psychological testing, in both Probate and Juvenile Courts throughout Massachusetts and New England. Dr. Darsney maintains a strong interest in the Juvenile Court Clinics in Massachusetts, and she is the Manager of the Court Clinic Contracts for MGH/Children and the Law, as well as the Clinical Director of the Norfolk County Juvenile Court Clinic (where she has been on staff since 1997). She is a Certified Juvenile Court Clinician, Levels I and II, and she supervises postdoctoral fellows and child psychiatry residents at the Boston Juvenile Court Clinic. Dr. Darsney has particular expertise in the evaluation of child sexual abuse in the context of high conflict divorce custody cases, and in conducting parenting evaluations in the context of abuse and neglect allegations. Dr. Darsney holds academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

For additional information on Dr. Christine Darsney, please see her curriculum vitae.