Richard A Warshak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Warshak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Warshak |
| SIGNATURE | WARSHAK R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Practice, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Developmental psychology and the scientific status of parental alienation
Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars dispute the scientific status of the literature on children who form unhealthy alliances with one parent against the other-termed parental alienation (PA). This comprehensive literature review tests competing descriptions of the PA literature. Accessing four electronic databases, we…
Risks and Realities of Working with Alienated Children
Involvement in custody cases that include accusations of parental alienation—whether as an evaluator, expert witness, lawyer, judge, therapist, provider of a specialized intervention, or researcher—incurs both professional and personal risks. Some risks relate to false negative or false positive identifications of parental alienation that can lead to regulatory agency complaints and public condemnation by the parent who feels wronged by the case …
When evaluators get it wrong
Reclaiming Parent–Child Relationships
A sample of 83 severely alienated children and adolescents were enrolled with the parents whom they had rejected in a 4-day Family Bridges educational workshop. The program was conducted after court orders had placed the children in the custody of their rejected parent. The parents who participated with the children in the workshop, and the professional workshop leaders, reported large improvements in the children’s alienated behavior, changes th…
Night Shifts
Professional opinions have shifted regarding the value of young children receiving overnight care from each parent. Contemporary proposals of blanket restrictions are contradictory and rest on faulty interpretations of a narrow bandwidth of scholarship. No coherent theory or research confirms speculations that fathers’ overnight care poses greater risks to their young children than daytime care, or that overnights are contraindicated if opposed b…
Securing Children’s Best Interests While Resisting the Lure of Simple Solutions
The best-interest-of-the-child standard for child custody policy and decisions has benefits and hazards, the latter related to the exercise of judicial discretion in custody disputes. This article examines alternatives to the status quo, including the primary parent presumption, the approximation rule, shared parenting, an exact even split of custodial time, sole custody for couples labeled as in high conflict or those with young children, the fr…
Social science and parenting plans for young children
Two central issues addressed in this article are the extent to which young children’s time should be spent predominantly in the care of the same parent or divided more evenly between both parents, and whether children under the age of 4 should sleep in the same home every night or spend overnights in both parents’ homes. A broad consensus of accomplished researchers and practitioners agree that, in normal circumstances, the evidence supports shar…
The impact of divorce in father-custody and mother-custody homes
Parents' custodial status is an important factor mediating children's perspectives on divorce
Father Custody and Social Development in Boys and Girls
The effects of father custody on children's social development are being studied by comparing children whose fathers have been awarded custody, children whose mothers have been awarded custody, and children from intact families. Half of the subjects are boys, and half are girls aged 6–11 years. Families are matched on SES, family size, and sibling status. The data presented here were based primarily on videotaped observations of parent‐child inte…
Three Studies of Retroactive-Inhibition during Free-Recall from a Disinhibition Perspective
The effect of a whistle (hypothesized to be disinhibiting) on retroactive-inhibition was studied in three experiments each using a 2 (whistle, no whistle) × 3 (retroactive-inhibition, unrelated list, unrelated task conditions) factorial design. In Exp. 1 an unexpected blast (whistle condition) was presented as Ss began terminal List 1 recall. In Exp. 2 the whistle was presented as Ss began the first test trial of List 2 acquisition. In Exp. 3 the…
Father Custody and Social Development in Boys and Girls
The effects of father custody on children's social development are being studied by comparing children whose fathers have been awarded custody, children whose mothers have been awarded custody, and children from intact families. Half of the subjects are boys, and half are girls aged 6–11 years. Families are matched on SES, family size, and sibling status. The data presented here were based primarily on videotaped observations of parent‐child inte…
Social science and parenting plans for young children
Two central issues addressed in this article are the extent to which young children’s time should be spent predominantly in the care of the same parent or divided more evenly between both parents, and whether children under the age of 4 should sleep in the same home every night or spend overnights in both parents’ homes. A broad consensus of accomplished researchers and practitioners agree that, in normal circumstances, the evidence supports shar…
Developmental psychology and the scientific status of parental alienation
Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars dispute the scientific status of the literature on children who form unhealthy alliances with one parent against the other-termed parental alienation (PA). This comprehensive literature review tests competing descriptions of the PA literature. Accessing four electronic databases, we…
Three Studies of Retroactive-Inhibition during Free-Recall from a Disinhibition Perspective
The effect of a whistle (hypothesized to be disinhibiting) on retroactive-inhibition was studied in three experiments each using a 2 (whistle, no whistle) × 3 (retroactive-inhibition, unrelated list, unrelated task conditions) factorial design. In Exp. 1 an unexpected blast (whistle condition) was presented as Ss began terminal List 1 recall. In Exp. 2 the whistle was presented as Ss began the first test trial of List 2 acquisition. In Exp. 3 the…
Father Custody and Social Development in Boys and Girls
The effects of father custody on children's social development are being studied by comparing children whose fathers have been awarded custody, children whose mothers have been awarded custody, and children from intact families. Half of the subjects are boys, and half are girls aged 6–11 years. Families are matched on SES, family size, and sibling status. The data presented here were based primarily on videotaped observations of parent‐child inte…
The impact of divorce in father-custody and mother-custody homes
Parents' custodial status is an important factor mediating children's perspectives on divorce
Social science and parenting plans for young children
Two central issues addressed in this article are the extent to which young children’s time should be spent predominantly in the care of the same parent or divided more evenly between both parents, and whether children under the age of 4 should sleep in the same home every night or spend overnights in both parents’ homes. A broad consensus of accomplished researchers and practitioners agree that, in normal circumstances, the evidence supports shar…
Securing Children’s Best Interests While Resisting the Lure of Simple Solutions
The best-interest-of-the-child standard for child custody policy and decisions has benefits and hazards, the latter related to the exercise of judicial discretion in custody disputes. This article examines alternatives to the status quo, including the primary parent presumption, the approximation rule, shared parenting, an exact even split of custodial time, sole custody for couples labeled as in high conflict or those with young children, the fr…
Night Shifts
Professional opinions have shifted regarding the value of young children receiving overnight care from each parent. Contemporary proposals of blanket restrictions are contradictory and rest on faulty interpretations of a narrow bandwidth of scholarship. No coherent theory or research confirms speculations that fathers’ overnight care poses greater risks to their young children than daytime care, or that overnights are contraindicated if opposed b…
Reclaiming Parent–Child Relationships
A sample of 83 severely alienated children and adolescents were enrolled with the parents whom they had rejected in a 4-day Family Bridges educational workshop. The program was conducted after court orders had placed the children in the custody of their rejected parent. The parents who participated with the children in the workshop, and the professional workshop leaders, reported large improvements in the children’s alienated behavior, changes th…
Risks and Realities of Working with Alienated Children
Involvement in custody cases that include accusations of parental alienation—whether as an evaluator, expert witness, lawyer, judge, therapist, provider of a specialized intervention, or researcher—incurs both professional and personal risks. Some risks relate to false negative or false positive identifications of parental alienation that can lead to regulatory agency complaints and public condemnation by the parent who feels wronged by the case …
When evaluators get it wrong
Developmental psychology and the scientific status of parental alienation
Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars dispute the scientific status of the literature on children who form unhealthy alliances with one parent against the other-termed parental alienation (PA). This comprehensive literature review tests competing descriptions of the PA literature. Accessing four electronic databases, we…
Psychology (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Family Support in Illness (5 works) · Alienation (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Child custody (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works)