title: Is there a doctor in the court? Focus on parental high conflict.
abstract: The author, a California Superior Court judge who is currently assigned to family law court, describes certain cases of marital dissolution as "parental civil wars" in which a high level of conflict between parents has deleterious effects on children. He calls on clinicians and social services systems to improve interventions to address high-conflict marital dissolutions and develop collaborations with courts to avoid lifelong negative consequences for the children involved in these cases.
authors.affiliation: Superior Court of California, Department 120, 3341 Power Inn Rd., Sacramento, CA 95826, USA. romanj@saccourt.ca.gov
authors.forename: Jaime Rene
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Roman
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody; D034462:Dissent and Disputes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004243:Divorce / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations