Publications

Selected Work

Dr. Pruett's writings include over 150 scholarly articles, chapters, co-edited and co-written books, as well as curricula for psychoeducational interventions in person and online. Full CV →

Books

Partnership Parenting (2009) Strengthening Couple Relationships for Optimal Child Development (2009) Your Divorce Advisor (2001) How to Prepare for and Respond to a Crisis (1995)

• Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently – Why It Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage (2009, Perseus). Co-author: K. Pruett.
• Strengthening Couple Relationships for Optimal Child Development: Lessons from Research and Intervention (2009, American Psychological Association). Co-editors: M. Schulz, P. Kerig, and R. Parke.
• Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and a Psychologist Guide You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce (2001, Simon and Schuster). Co-author: D. Mercer.
• How to Prepare for and Respond to a Crisis (1995, 2002, 2004 Japanese edition). Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Co-authors: R. Lichtenstein, D.J. Schonfeld, and D. Speese-Linehan.
• Overnights and Young Children: Essays from the Family Court Review (2005).
• “Child Custody Issues,” Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America Monograph, 7(2) (1998). Co-editor: K. Pruett.

Recent publications

• Herman, R.J., Craft, A., Crowley, C., Perry-Jenkins, M., Powers, S.I., Pruett, M.K., Straus, R.B., & Byatt, N. (2026). A coparent intervention to prevent prenatal stress and depression symptoms in families with lower incomes. Family Relations, 75(2), 1409-31.
• Pruett, M.K., & Briskin, E. (2024). Evidence for popular family dispute resolution models. In P. Salem and K. Browe-Olson (Eds.), Family Dispute Resolution Handbook (2nd edition, pp. 513-541), Oxford University Press.
• Pruett, M.K., Fidnick, L., & Stern, N. (2024). The Family Resolutions Specialty Court: A multidisciplinary problem-solving approach. In P. Salem and K. Browe-Olson (Eds.), Family Dispute Resolution Handbook (2nd edition, pp. 494-510), Oxford University Press.
• Schepard, A., Pruett, M.K., & Salem, P. (2024). Court and community planning for family dispute resolution: An integrated model. In P. Salem and K. Browe-Olson (Eds.), Family Dispute Resolution Handbook (2nd edition, pp. 451-471), Oxford University Press.
• Pruett, M.K., Wang, X., Zhu, T., Alschech, J., & Saini, M. (2024). The Coparenting Across Family Structures (CoPAFS) scale: Replication for Mandarin parents. Family Process, 63(2), 1068-1083.
• Cowan, P.A., Cowan, C.P., Pruett, M.K., & Pruett, K.D. (2024). Navigating the gap between correlational and intervention studies of fatherhood and children’s development: A family systems ecological perspective. Parenting: Science and Practice, 25(4), 367-397.
• Pruett, M.K., Johnston, J.R., Saini, M., Sullivan, M., & Salem, P. (2023). The use of parental alienation constructs by family justice system professionals: A survey of belief systems and practice implications. Family Court Review, 61(2), 372-394.
• Pruett, M.K., & Wilson, A.E. (2023). The kids are not alright: Addressing adolescent mental health in family law. Family Court Review, 61(3), 466-471.
• Zhu, T., Pruett, M.K., & Alschech, J. (2023). Coparenting in English-speaking and Chinese families: A cross-cultural comparison using the survey tool CoPAFS. Children, 10(12), 1884.
• Saini, M., Pruett, M.K., & Alschech, J. (2022). The short-form of the Coparenting Across Family Structures scale (CoPAFS-27): A confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31, 2785–2800.
• Pruett, M.K., Alschech, J., Saini, M., & Feldscher, T. (2021). The impact of coparenting on mothers’ COVID-19 related stressors. Social Science.

Selected legacy publications

• Pruett, M.K., Greenberg, L., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2021). Evidence-based and evidence-informed practice for “real world” family law challenges. Introduction to Family Court Review: Special Issue on Evidence-based and Evidence-informed Interventions in Family Law.
• Pruett, M.K., Greenberg, L., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2021). Family Court Review: Special Issue on Evidence-based and Evidence-informed Interventions in Family Law.
• Pruett, M.K., Alschech, J., & Feldscher, T. (2021). The Family Resolutions Specialty Court (FRSC): An evidence-informed court-based innovation. In M.K. Pruett, L. Greenberg, & A. Holtzworth-Munroe (Eds.), Family Court Review: Special Issue on Evidence-based and Evidence-informed Interventions in Family Law.
• Pruett, M.K., Alschech, J., Saini, M., & Feldscher, T. (2021). The impact of coparenting on mothers’ COVID-19 related stressors. Social Science.
• Pruett, M.K. & Najman, N. (2020). Parenting plans after separation/divorce: Developmental considerations.
• Pruett, K.D. & Pruett, M.K. (2020). Engaging fathers of young children in low-income families to improve child and family outcomes; An intervention and prevention perspective.
• Ginn, C., Mughal, K., Kline Pruett, M., Pruett, K., Perry, R.L., & Benzies, K.M. (2020). Engaging from both sides: Facilitating a Canadian two-generation prenatal to three program for families experiencing vulnerability.
• Capistrant, B., Pruett, M.K., Gillette, P., Rivera, S., Cowan, C.P., & Cowan, P.A. (2020). Dual earner status, marital satisfaction, and division of child-related tasks among Mexican American and white couples.
• Saini, M., Pruett, M.K., Alschech, J., & Sushchyk, A. (2019). A pilot study to assess coparenting across family structures (CoPAFS).
• Pruett, K.D., Pruett, M.K., & Deutsch, R. (2019). Bringing the previously absent father into the family.
• Pruett, M.K., Nakash, O., Welton, E., Cowan, C.P., Cowan, P.A., & Gillette, P. (2019). Using an initial clinical interview to assess the coparenting relationship: Preliminary examples from the Supporting Father Involvement program.
• Pruett, M.K., Cowan, P.A., Cowan, C.P., Gillette, P., & Pruett, K.P. (2019). Supporting Father Involvement: A group intervention for low-income community and child welfare referred couples.

Forthcoming work

• Fieldstone, L., Pruett, M.K., & Kumaria, S. (in press). As one gate closes, another one opens: First application of gatekeeping to older families. Family Court Review.
• Pruett, M.K., & Drozd, L.M. (2025, e-edition). Gatekeeping in family law: Not an open and shut case! In S.J. Schoppe-Sullivan & F.K. Aytac-Dicarlo (Eds.), Parental Gatekeeping (chapter 7). Routledge.
• Pruett, M.K., McNamara, K., & Polin, J. (in press). Shared parenting time: The King Solomon parable still holds. In L. Drozd, M. Saini, & K. Olsen (Eds.), Parenting plan evaluations: Applied research for the family court (3rd edition). Oxford University Press.
• Capdevila-Brophy, C., Carter, D.K., & Pruett, M.K. (in press). When orders aren’t enough: A new model for child-centered care in cross border family conflicts. In L. Traum & A. Crampton (Eds.), FCR Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Peacemaking: Family Dispute Resolution Without Borders.

For complete publications, see CV.