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Item Metadata only Adjustment, Stress and Family Life in Adolescents in Canada, Britain, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and The Philippines(Taylor & Francis Online, 1999) Bagley, C.; Mallick, K.; Verma, G.; Bolitho, F.; Bertrand, L.; Madrid, S.; Tse, J.Item Metadata only A Comparison Among Adolescents and Parents on Attention, Conduct, and Emotional Symptoms in Alberta's Adolescents(1998) Matsuba, C.A.; Clarke, M.; Bertrand, L.; Lemay, J.-F.Item Metadata only A Comparison Among Adolescents and Parents on Attention, Conduct, and Emotional Symptoms in Alberta's Adolescents(1998) Matsuba, C.A.; Clarke, M.; Bertrand, L.; Lemay, J.-F.Item Metadata only Controversy about the Role of Children's Lawyers - Advocate or Best Interests Guardian? Comparing Practices in Two Canadian Jurisdictions(Wiley Online Library, 2013) Bala, N.; Birnbaum, R.; Bertrand, L.There is controversy about the role that lawyers for children should play in family proceedings, but little empirical research about what they actually do. This article reports on a study (n = 166) of the experiences and perspectives of lawyers in two Canadian provinces with different policies for the role of children's counsel. Official policies seem to have only a limited impact on the practices of lawyers for children, whether the policies direct lawyers to adopt a best interests guardian or a traditional instructional advocate role. Lawyers generally seem more comfortable adopting an instructional advocacy role, especially with older children. Lawyers who represent children comment on the deep satisfaction that they feel from this work. This article compares the practice of lawyers in the two jurisdictions on a number of issues related to child clients and proposes policy changes to provide better guidance and education for children's lawyers.Item Metadata only Discrepant Parent-Adolescent Views on Family Functioning: Predictors of Poorer Self-Esteem and Problems of Emotion and Behaviour in British and Canadian Adolescents(2016) Bagley, C.; Bertrand, L.; Bolitho, F.; Mallick, K.Item Metadata only Ethnicities and Social Adjustment in Canadian Adolescents(2001) Bagley, C.; Bolitho, F.; Bertrand, L.Item Metadata only Judicial Interviews with Children: Attitudes and Practices of Children's Lawyers in Canada(Ingenta Connect, 2013) Birnbaum, R.; Bala, N.; Bertrand, L.Children's lawyers in two Canadian provinces with different policies about the role of children's counsel in family cases were surveyed to explore and compare their experiences and attitudes about their role as counsel and about children meeting with a judge. The majority of lawyers acted as gatekeeepers, often preventing children from having a full range of choices about how to communicate with the court. Lawyers who adopt a traditional advocacy role as opposed to viewing themselves as best interest guardians are somewhat more likely to give their child clients an opportunity to meet the judge. In order to assist the decision-makers who are often making life-altering decisions about children and promote the rights of children, there should be more training and education of justice system professionals on how to support children who want this opportunity to meet with a judge.Item Metadata only The Rise of Self-representation in Canada's Family Courts: The Complex Picture Revealed in Surveys of Judges, Lawyers and Litigants(2013) Birnbaum, R.; Bala, N.; Bertrand, L.