Early Identification of Risk Factors for Parental Abduction

Johnston, Janet R.; Sagatun-Edwards, Inger; Blomquist, Martha‐Elin; Girdner, Linda K.

doi:10.1037/e301972003-001

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“…Conflict between parents was scored as the average of multiple measures of parental conflict drawn from items in the Acrimony Scale (Emery, 1997), the Discuss and Share Decision-Making Scale (Ahrons, 1981), and the Content of Conflict Checklist (Johnston, 1996). From the Acrimony Scale we included the items from the Relationship with Former Spouse subscale that assess areas of potential conflict between separated or divorced parents (e.g., “Visitation is a problem between me and their mother/father” and “I feel hostile toward my children's mother/father”).…”

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Family and legal indicators of child adjustment to divorce among families with young children.

Pruett

Williams

Insabella

et al. 2003

Journal of Family Psychology

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This research used structural equation modeling to examine relations among family dynamics, attorney involvement, and the adjustment of young children (0-6 years) at the time of parental separation. The article presents baseline data (N = 102 nonresidential fathers and N = 110 primary caretaking mothers) from a larger longitudinal study. Results showed that the effects of parental conflict on child outcomes were mediated by paternal involvement, the parent-child relationship, and attorney involvement. A scale assessing parental gatekeeping yielded two significant factors: Spouse's Influence on Parenting and Positive View of Spouse. Paternal involvement was related to children's adaptive behavior, whereas negative changes in parent-child relationships predicted behavior problems. Mothers who experienced greater psychological symptomatology were less likely to utilize an attorney, which in turn predicted greater internalizing problems in their children.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family and legal indicators of child adjustment to divorce among families with young children.

Pruett

Williams

Insabella

et al. 2003

Journal of Family Psychology

132

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“…An estimated 40% to 55% of cases of family law–related matters involve allegations of both child abuse and intimate partner violence (Fantuzzo, Boruch, Beriama, Atkins, & Marcus, 1997; Moloney et al, 2007). Heightened safety concerns include abduction (Johnston, Sagatun-Edwards, Blomquist, & Girdner, 2001) and lethality (Mouzos & Rushforth, 2003; Nielssen, Large, Westmore, & Lackersteen, 2009). Given all this, it is surprising that to date no validated whole-of-family risk screens have been developed for the family law sector.…”

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Development and validation of the Family Law DOORS.

McIntosh¹,

Wells²,

Lee³

2016

Psychological Assessment

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When former spouses experience distress and dispute following separation, risks to well-being and to safety are heightened for all family members. Reliable family-wide risk screening is essential. The Family Law DOORS (Detection of Overall Risk Screen) is a 3-part screening framework to assist identification, evaluation, and response to safety and well-being risks in separated families. Uniquely, the Family Law DOORS screens for victimization and perpetration risks and appraises infant and child developmental risk. The Family Law DOORS self-report screening tool is the subject of this report. Internal scale reliability and concurrent and external criterion validity for the Family Law DOORS were estimated with a community sample of 660 separated parents, including 181 mother-father pairs. Overall psychometric properties are strong and demonstrate good potential for the Family Law DOORS to support early risk detection for separating families. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Child witnesses of domestic violence have significantly worse psychosocial, attachment and neuro-cognitive outcomes than nonwitnesses (Kitzmann, Gaylord, Holt, & Kenny, 2003; McIntosh, Tan, Levendosky, & Holtzworth-Munroe, 2020; Medina, Margolin, & Wilcox, 2000). Safety concerns are significantly heightened following separation, from increased risk of abduction (Johnston, Sagatun-Edwards, Blomquist, & Girdner, 2001), to filicide (Mouzos & Rushforth, 2003; Nielssen, Large, Westmore, & Lackersteen, 2009).…”

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Profiling mother and father reports of safety risks in a postseparation cohort.

McIntosh

Tan

Greenwood

et al. 2021

Psychology of Violence

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Objective: When separated parents are in dispute, safety risks escalate for both parents and their children. Risk screening in family law services is typically rare or limited to a unidimensional appraisal of domestic violence victimization risk for women. Systematic attention to proximal and contextual patterns has been largely neglected to date. Method: We report findings from a large risk screening project in a statewide organization offering postseparation services. Universal screening occurred at intake with the Family Law Detection of Overall Risk Screen (McIntosh & Ralfs, 2012), a validated 10-domain tool for identification, evaluation, and response to both victimization and perpetration safety risks, and infant and child developmental risk. The cohort comprised 7,994 parents. Patterns of modifiable risk were examined for three risk variables: child safety, parent safety, and risk of perpetrating harm. Results: Varying profiles of risk across the Family Law Detection of Overall Risk Screen scales were evident in predicting each safety variable. The strongest predictors of all three safety variables were endorsement of another safety risk, and parent report that the other parent was not coping. No consistent differences were found in the prediction of mother and father reports of risk. Conclusion: We address the potential clinical utility of the findings and their policy implications.

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Early Identification of Risk Factors for Parental Abduction

Cited by 9 publications

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Family and legal indicators of child adjustment to divorce among families with young children.

Family and legal indicators of child adjustment to divorce among families with young children.

Development and validation of the Family Law DOORS.

Profiling mother and father reports of safety risks in a postseparation cohort.

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