Jeffrey P. Wittmann, Ph.D.
Dr. Wittmann is a forensic psychologist, trial consultant, and divorce mediator whose practice concentrates on trial support for attorneys in custody and access matters. He received his master’s degree in clinical psychology in 1981 and his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from SUNY-Albany in 1989. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at SUNY Albany where he teaches forensic psychology at the doctoral level and he serves as a trial consultant for major law firms nationally. Dr. Wittmann is a widely recognized expert on the intersection of law and psychology and on professional practices in the child custody area. He is regularly on the faculty for training seminars offered to attorneys and mental health professionals, and has been a frequently utilized scholar-trainer for judges in Family, Supreme, and appellate courts in this New York and elsewhere nationally. Dr. Wittmann has provided invited testimony to both the New York State Senate and the New York State Matrimonial Commission, provides opinions on divorce-related matters to print, television, and radio media, and has served as a program consultant to ABC News. He is on the editorial board of the New York Family Law Monthly and the Journal of Child Custody and is the author of “Custody Chaos, Personal Peace” (Perigee, 2001) and of numerous scholarly articles regarding forensic psychology. The Empirical Forensic Model which he developed with Timothy Tippins Esq. is now taught in many venues nationally as a template for critiquing the custody evaluation process. The Tippins-Wittmann critique of current custody evaluation processes received both front page New York Times attention and publication in the Family Court Review in April of 2005.
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