While the better practice would have been for the Family Court to appoint a neutral forensic given the circumstances of this case, including the different views as to the reasons for the child's psychological difficulties, it was not reversible error for the court to allow the child's treating psychiatrist to testify and make recommendations for modification of the access schedule (see Matter of Rogan v Guida,
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