Emotional Distress in Children of High‐conflict Divorce

Ayoub, Catherine; Deutsch, Robin M.; Maraganore, Andronicki

doi:10.1111/j.174-1617.1999.tb01307.x

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“…She also found that when children remain in high-conflict marital situations, they display lower levels of wellbeing than children whose parents divorce or separate following high conflict. Ayoub, Deutsch and Maraganore (1999) confirm that, though children in high-conflict divorce fare poorer than children in intact families, poor child wellbeing is linked with family conflict in both intact and divorced families.…”

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The Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences for the Professional Requirements of Social Work

Dykes

2014

Social Work

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Section: Self-concept Development Experiencessupporting

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The Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences for the Professional Requirements of Social Work

Dykes

2014

Social Work

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“…Indices of poor adjustment include overall behavior problems as reported by both the parent and child; low self-esteem, acting out as reported by both the child and parent; antisocial behaviors and headstrong behavior as reported by the child; and anxiety/depression as reported by the child. These results are congruent with earlier studies that demonstrated a strong relationship between child maladjustment and co-parenting marked by high hostility and poor parenting skills (Amato & Keith, 1991;Ayoub, Deutsch, & Maraganore, 1999;Demo & Acock, 1988;Hetherington et al, 1982Hetherington et al, , 1985Simons et al, 1999;Vandewater & Lansford, 1998).…”

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Assessing Parenting After Divorce

Macie¹,

Stolberg²

2003

Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

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The Co-Parenting Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) is an 86-item questionnaire that assesses co-parenting interactions and parenting skills of divorced parents from the viewpoint of the child. The CBQ contains 12 subscales reflecting 4 parental interaction variables, 4 father-parenting variables, and 4 mother-parenting variables. This questionnaire was administered to 68 children, aged 10 to 17, in order to assess the internal consistency and of each of the subscales and the predictive validity of the CBQ. Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the CBQ scales ranged from .82 to .93 after five of the initial items were deleted. The CBQ scales as a set accounted for between 15% and 36% of the variance in the following child behavior measures: total behavior problems (parent and child report), self-esteem (child report), acting out (parent and child report), antisocial behavior (child report), headstrong behavior (child report), and anxiety/depression (child report). The Mother and Father Discipline scales did not demonstrate significant correlations with the child behavior measures, nor did the Parental Communica-The current study was completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science in Psychology by Katherine M. Macie, MS, under the supervision of Arnold L. Stolberg, PhD.

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“…Children involved in dependency court hearings were anxious about their appearances and harbored negative attitudes toward their case involvement (Quas et al, 2009). Guardians ad litem in another study reported that children whose parents experienced an acrimonious divorce involving conflict over custody and visitation were extremely emotionally distressed by the process (Ayoub, Deutsch, & Maraganore, 1999). Finally, deficits in children’s understanding of legal terminology, roles, and processes are not exclusively limited to criminal proceedings.…”

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Supporting children in U.S. legal proceedings: Descriptive and attitudinal data from a national survey of victim/witness assistants.

McAuliff¹,

Nicholson²,

Amarilio³

et al. 2013

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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We conducted a national survey of 786 victim/witness assistants (VWAs) to provide descriptive and attitudinal information about support person use in U.S. legal proceedings involving children. VWAs (N = 414) from 46 states returned completed surveys (response rate = 53%). Prosecutor-based VWAs or parents/guardians most frequently served as support persons. One support person was almost always or often used with child victims and/or witnesses of all ages. Support persons were extremely common in cases involving child sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, and adult domestic violence. Overall, support persons provided more informational than emotional support. The most common informational support was to provide referrals to community resources, conduct courtroom visit/orientation, and disseminate relevant procedural information. The most common emotional support was to accompany the child to trial. Support persons rarely or never questioned children directly during investigative interviews or in court. Respondents believed support persons decrease children’s stress and increase accuracy and credibility; however, this effect varied as a function of who provided support, child age, case type, and type of emotional or informational support. Respondents believed that support person presence at trial probably does not prejudice jurors against defendants. These survey data provide a benchmark for legal professionals and a foundation for future social scientific research examining the effects of support person use on children.

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Emotional Distress in Children of High‐conflict Divorce

Cited by 58 publications

References 21 publications

The Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences for the Professional Requirements of Social Work

The Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences for the Professional Requirements of Social Work

Assessing Parenting After Divorce

Supporting children in U.S. legal proceedings: Descriptive and attitudinal data from a national survey of victim/witness assistants.

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