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Michael G. Brock provides comprehensive and high quality counseling and forensic (court-related) evaluations in a
private practice setting. He has extensive experience in evaluating children, adolescents, adults,
and families from a family systems perspective. He has been in practice for over 34 years in a variety of areas, including
child custody, parental termination, videotaped sexual abuse forensic interviews, driver license evaluations, and substance
abuse and domestic violence assessment and treatment. He also provides consultation to attorneys and the courts regarding
current standards in mental health evidence as defined by forensic literature, professional guidelines and ethics codes.
He provides assistance with case preparation for attorneys by assessing the psychological evidence for and against their
clients, reviewing treatment records, and preparing for cross-examining expert witnesses.
Michael holds two mental health licenses, and has provided local workshops and seminars for The Guidance Center, the
Dearborn Downriver branch of the Michigan Bar Association, and the Michigan Association of Professional Psychologists. He
has also volunteered his time to participate in Judge Randy Kalmbach's "Court in the Schools" program, held at
Downriver Detroit High Schools in Wyandotte and Riverview. He is an avid reader of current psychological forensic research,
and Michigan statutes, court rules, and case law related to child custody and child abuse investigation, and has published
many articles on these subjects. His monthly column appears in the Detroit Legal News, and some of his writings are available
online and in other publications.
Michael has been practicing psychology and has worked within the Michigan court system for over 34 years.
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