Jennifer J Harman
Biographic Data
| ID | 908258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer J Harman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer J |
| FAMILY NAME | Harman |
| SIGNATURE | HARMAN J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7280-824X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Prevalence and impact of parental alienating behaviors (PABs) in adults aged 18–25 in the United Kingdom
Introduction: Following recent research in the United Kingdom (UK) on the prevalence of parental alienating behaviors (PABs) as reported by separated parents, this study presents the first nationally representative investigation of the prevalence and impacts of PABs as reported by young adults in the United Kingdom. Methods: A sample of 1,004 participants aged 18-25 completed an online survey assessing exposure to 30 established PABs, parental ac…
Countering Arguments Against Parental Alienation as A Form of Family Violence and Child Abuse
Despite scientific recognition of parental alienation as a form of child maltreatment and family violence, numerous critiques been advanced challenging the concept. A recent UN report concluded that parental alienation is a “pseudo-concept” lacking empirical validity, posing significant dangers to women and children at risk of family violence and abuse. In this article, we present and refute the most common arguments that have been advanced again…
Danger of Misinformation and Science Denial
Anti‐science beliefs, including science denial and belief in pseudoscience, pose a serious risk to human societies. This introductory article presents an overview of the dangers of these anti‐science beliefs for a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues on how they impact the behavioral and social sciences. After providing a broad overview of some of the dangers of science denial and pseudoscience, we summarize the contributions of scholars…
The illusory correlation between parental alienation and other forms of family violence
There has been considerable public discourse around courts allegedly “dismissing” mother's allegations of domestic violence and child abuse when a father alleges that he is being alienated from his children by their mother. The purpose of this project is to test whether this discourse is based on an illusory correlation. Published court decisions from 200 family court cases in Canada were sequentially selected if parental alienation was alleged t…
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation
There have been legislative efforts to control how child custody decisions are handled in family courts where allegations of abuse and of parental alienation (PA) are levied. The “findings” reported to support such legislation have been based on one unreviewed study with identified methodological issues (Harman & Lorandos, 2021). We tested six pre-registered hypotheses to determine whether there is empirical support for the “research findings” us…
Findings of Abuse in Families Affected by Parental Alienation
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…
Power dynamics in families affected by parental alienation
The purpose of this study was to apply interdependence theory to understand the power dynamics in families affected by parental alienation. We hypothesized that the power dynamics between alienating and alienated parents are imbalanced such that this form of family violence (Harman et al., 2018) more closely resembles intimate terrorism than situational couple violence, where power dynamics are more similar between partners. We also hypothesized …
Compersion
Allegations of family violence in court
Demographic Comparison of American Individuals in Polyamorous and Monogamous Relationships
Research on polyamorous relationships has increased substantially over the past decade. This work has documented how polyamory is practiced and why individuals might pursue such arrangements. However, there is a lack of a systematic investigation of who is in polyamorous relationships and how they might differ from individuals in monogamous relationships. The present study is one of the first to address this by comparing the demographic backgroun…
Gender Differences in the Use of Parental Alienating Behaviors
Prevalence of adults who are the targets of parental alienating behaviors and their impact
Parental alienating behaviors
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their r…
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia
This study draws on a social norms framework to examine the influence of interview context-specifically the presence of other women and men-on women's reported attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ethiopia, where IPV rates are among the highest in the world. The sample (16,515 women, ages 15-49) was taken from Ethiopia's 2011 Demographic and Health Survey. Results showed the odds of women "justifying" IPV to be nearly twice as grea…
Prevalence of parental alienation drawn from a representative poll
Understanding the experiences and needs of female commercial sex workers in Kathmandu, Nepal
Through this exploratory study, we sought to better understand Nepali female commercial sex workers' (FCSWs') experiences in order to inform HIV prevention and health promotion interventions for this vulnerable and hard-to-reach population. Data were collected through phenomenological interviews with eight FCSWs. Through analysis we reveal promising intervention points to enhance FCSW health, empowerment, and overall well-being. Researchers sugge…
Unveiling the silence
Rising rates of HIV in Nepal signal an impending epidemic. In order to develop culturally appropriate and effective actions and programmes to reduce HIV transmission, it is necessary to understand attitudes, behaviours and norms surrounding sexual networking and safer-sex practices in Nepal. Nepali women are thought to be at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, sexual violence and exploitation and other sexual health …
Nature, extent and implications of belief in Kikombe cha babu and other herbal HIV cures in Tanzania
This study's objective was to describe awareness of, access to, belief in, and utilization of the healing tea Kikombe cha babu and other alternative treatments for HIV in Tanzania. Associations with HIV testing, treatment, and prevention behaviors are also explored. A survey with questions about alternative medicine was administered to a sample in Tanzania using a stratified, multistage random selection method. Adults were interviewed face-to-fac…
Preliminary Findings from a Brief, Peer-Led Safer Sex Intervention for College Students Living in Residence Halls
What You Think You Know Can Hurt You
Efficacy of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Interventions
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a quantitative review of published trials of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence interventions. DESIGN: A research synthesis of published ART adherence intervention outcome studies. SAMPLE: ART adherence intervention outcome studies meeting inclusion criteria published between 1996 and December 2004 (k=24). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Effect sizes (ESs [d]) were calculated for each study outcome, producing 25 immediate postinte…
An information-motivation-behavioral skills model of adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
HIV-positive persons who do not maintain consistently high levels of adherence to often complex and toxic highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens may experience therapeutic failure and deterioration of health status and may develop multidrug-resistant HIV that can be transmitted to uninfected others. The current analysis conceptualizes social and psychological determinants of adherence to HAART among HIV-positive individuals. The au…
Standard of care
Although there has long been demand for programs and procedures that support or enhance adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among HIV+ patients, there is scant evidence about the extent to which medical clinics have been able to incorporate adherence interventions into their standard care. A survey of clinical care settings in New York and Connecticut indicated that the current standard of care is to provide only minimal levels of adherence…
Not all psychologists are classist
Parental alienating behaviors
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their r…
Compersion
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…
Prevalence of parental alienation drawn from a representative poll
Prevalence of adults who are the targets of parental alienating behaviors and their impact
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia
This study draws on a social norms framework to examine the influence of interview context-specifically the presence of other women and men-on women's reported attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ethiopia, where IPV rates are among the highest in the world. The sample (16,515 women, ages 15-49) was taken from Ethiopia's 2011 Demographic and Health Survey. Results showed the odds of women "justifying" IPV to be nearly twice as grea…
Findings of Abuse in Families Affected by Parental Alienation
Allegations of family violence in court
Gender Differences in the Use of Parental Alienating Behaviors
Danger of Misinformation and Science Denial
Anti‐science beliefs, including science denial and belief in pseudoscience, pose a serious risk to human societies. This introductory article presents an overview of the dangers of these anti‐science beliefs for a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues on how they impact the behavioral and social sciences. After providing a broad overview of some of the dangers of science denial and pseudoscience, we summarize the contributions of scholars…
The illusory correlation between parental alienation and other forms of family violence
There has been considerable public discourse around courts allegedly “dismissing” mother's allegations of domestic violence and child abuse when a father alleges that he is being alienated from his children by their mother. The purpose of this project is to test whether this discourse is based on an illusory correlation. Published court decisions from 200 family court cases in Canada were sequentially selected if parental alienation was alleged t…
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation
There have been legislative efforts to control how child custody decisions are handled in family courts where allegations of abuse and of parental alienation (PA) are levied. The “findings” reported to support such legislation have been based on one unreviewed study with identified methodological issues (Harman & Lorandos, 2021). We tested six pre-registered hypotheses to determine whether there is empirical support for the “research findings” us…
Not all psychologists are classist
Not all psychologists are classist
Standard of care
Although there has long been demand for programs and procedures that support or enhance adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among HIV+ patients, there is scant evidence about the extent to which medical clinics have been able to incorporate adherence interventions into their standard care. A survey of clinical care settings in New York and Connecticut indicated that the current standard of care is to provide only minimal levels of adherence…
Efficacy of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Interventions
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a quantitative review of published trials of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence interventions. DESIGN: A research synthesis of published ART adherence intervention outcome studies. SAMPLE: ART adherence intervention outcome studies meeting inclusion criteria published between 1996 and December 2004 (k=24). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Effect sizes (ESs [d]) were calculated for each study outcome, producing 25 immediate postinte…
An information-motivation-behavioral skills model of adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
HIV-positive persons who do not maintain consistently high levels of adherence to often complex and toxic highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens may experience therapeutic failure and deterioration of health status and may develop multidrug-resistant HIV that can be transmitted to uninfected others. The current analysis conceptualizes social and psychological determinants of adherence to HAART among HIV-positive individuals. The au…
What You Think You Know Can Hurt You
Preliminary Findings from a Brief, Peer-Led Safer Sex Intervention for College Students Living in Residence Halls
Nature, extent and implications of belief in Kikombe cha babu and other herbal HIV cures in Tanzania
This study's objective was to describe awareness of, access to, belief in, and utilization of the healing tea Kikombe cha babu and other alternative treatments for HIV in Tanzania. Associations with HIV testing, treatment, and prevention behaviors are also explored. A survey with questions about alternative medicine was administered to a sample in Tanzania using a stratified, multistage random selection method. Adults were interviewed face-to-fac…
Understanding the experiences and needs of female commercial sex workers in Kathmandu, Nepal
Through this exploratory study, we sought to better understand Nepali female commercial sex workers' (FCSWs') experiences in order to inform HIV prevention and health promotion interventions for this vulnerable and hard-to-reach population. Data were collected through phenomenological interviews with eight FCSWs. Through analysis we reveal promising intervention points to enhance FCSW health, empowerment, and overall well-being. Researchers sugge…
Unveiling the silence
Rising rates of HIV in Nepal signal an impending epidemic. In order to develop culturally appropriate and effective actions and programmes to reduce HIV transmission, it is necessary to understand attitudes, behaviours and norms surrounding sexual networking and safer-sex practices in Nepal. Nepali women are thought to be at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, sexual violence and exploitation and other sexual health …
Women’s Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Ethiopia
This study draws on a social norms framework to examine the influence of interview context-specifically the presence of other women and men-on women's reported attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ethiopia, where IPV rates are among the highest in the world. The sample (16,515 women, ages 15-49) was taken from Ethiopia's 2011 Demographic and Health Survey. Results showed the odds of women "justifying" IPV to be nearly twice as grea…
Prevalence of parental alienation drawn from a representative poll
Parental alienating behaviors
Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation has been largely unacknowledged or denied by legal and health professionals as a form of family violence. This complex form of aggression entails a parental figure engaging in the long-term use of a variety of aggressive behaviors to harm the relationship between their child and another parental figure, and/or to hurt the other parental figure directly because of their r…
Demographic Comparison of American Individuals in Polyamorous and Monogamous Relationships
Research on polyamorous relationships has increased substantially over the past decade. This work has documented how polyamory is practiced and why individuals might pursue such arrangements. However, there is a lack of a systematic investigation of who is in polyamorous relationships and how they might differ from individuals in monogamous relationships. The present study is one of the first to address this by comparing the demographic backgroun…
Gender Differences in the Use of Parental Alienating Behaviors
Prevalence of adults who are the targets of parental alienating behaviors and their impact
Power dynamics in families affected by parental alienation
The purpose of this study was to apply interdependence theory to understand the power dynamics in families affected by parental alienation. We hypothesized that the power dynamics between alienating and alienated parents are imbalanced such that this form of family violence (Harman et al., 2018) more closely resembles intimate terrorism than situational couple violence, where power dynamics are more similar between partners. We also hypothesized …
Compersion
Allegations of family violence in court
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…
Gender and child custody outcomes across 16 years of judicial decisions regarding abuse and parental alienation
There have been legislative efforts to control how child custody decisions are handled in family courts where allegations of abuse and of parental alienation (PA) are levied. The “findings” reported to support such legislation have been based on one unreviewed study with identified methodological issues (Harman & Lorandos, 2021). We tested six pre-registered hypotheses to determine whether there is empirical support for the “research findings” us…
Findings of Abuse in Families Affected by Parental Alienation
The illusory correlation between parental alienation and other forms of family violence
There has been considerable public discourse around courts allegedly “dismissing” mother's allegations of domestic violence and child abuse when a father alleges that he is being alienated from his children by their mother. The purpose of this project is to test whether this discourse is based on an illusory correlation. Published court decisions from 200 family court cases in Canada were sequentially selected if parental alienation was alleged t…
Countering Arguments Against Parental Alienation as A Form of Family Violence and Child Abuse
Despite scientific recognition of parental alienation as a form of child maltreatment and family violence, numerous critiques been advanced challenging the concept. A recent UN report concluded that parental alienation is a “pseudo-concept” lacking empirical validity, posing significant dangers to women and children at risk of family violence and abuse. In this article, we present and refute the most common arguments that have been advanced again…
Danger of Misinformation and Science Denial
Anti‐science beliefs, including science denial and belief in pseudoscience, pose a serious risk to human societies. This introductory article presents an overview of the dangers of these anti‐science beliefs for a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues on how they impact the behavioral and social sciences. After providing a broad overview of some of the dangers of science denial and pseudoscience, we summarize the contributions of scholars…
Prevalence and impact of parental alienating behaviors (PABs) in adults aged 18–25 in the United Kingdom
Introduction: Following recent research in the United Kingdom (UK) on the prevalence of parental alienating behaviors (PABs) as reported by separated parents, this study presents the first nationally representative investigation of the prevalence and impacts of PABs as reported by young adults in the United Kingdom. Methods: A sample of 1,004 participants aged 18-25 completed an online survey assessing exposure to 30 established PABs, parental ac…
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Alienation (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)