Speaking & Training
Keynote speaker, trainer, and expert commentator on parental alienation, divorce, child custody, and children’s mental health – trusted by courts, lawmakers, and professionals around the world.
Invite Dr. Warshak to Speak
Dr. Richard Warshak delivers keynotes, workshops, webinars, and in-depth trainings for legal, mental health, and interdisciplinary audiences, as well as community and advocacy organizations. His presentations blend clear science, case examples, and practical guidance that professionals can apply immediately.
Keynote & Training Topics
Topics can be tailored to judges, lawyers, evaluators, therapists, mediators, parenting coordinators, policy-makers, or mixed audiences. Below is a sample of frequently requested themes.
Presentations in this area focus on helping courts and professionals understand, prevent, identify, and remedy irrational rejection of a parent.
- Divorce Poison: protecting children from bad-mouthing and brainwashing
- Understanding alienated children and parental alienation processes
- Distinguishing alienation from justified estrangement
- Prevention strategies for lawyers, judges, and therapists
- Overcoming alienation and estrangement in children and adults
- Reuniting parents with estranged adult children
- Therapeutic management of parental alienation in families
- Judicial management of parental alienation in families
- Family Bridges: principles, procedures, and ethical considerations in reconnecting severely alienated children with a rejected parent
- Controversies and myths about “parental alienation syndrome”
These programmes translate research into practical guidance for custody planning, litigation, and post-separation parenting.
- Impact of divorce on children and adolescents
- Parenting plans and overnights for infants and young children
- Shared parenting, joint custody, father custody, and mother custody
- Relocation and move-away cases
- When children ask to move from one household to another
- Child custody evaluation procedures and report writing
- Benefits and hazards of involving children in custody decisions
- Evaluating child custody evaluators and expert testimony
- Bias and ethical issues in custody evaluations and consultations
- Parenting plans in high-conflict families
- Divorce mediation and collaborative divorce
- The American Law Institute’s “approximation rule” and its implications
- Child support compliance and enforcement
- Holidays and transitions in divorced families
- Tips for stepparents and remarried parents
These talks are suitable for professionals and for parent-education programmes and community audiences.
- Building healthy self-esteem in children and adolescents
- Depression and anxiety in children: what adults need to know
- Shy children, school anxiety, and avoidance
- Children who lie: understanding and responding constructively
- Bipolar disorder in children
- Sibling rivalry and managing conflict between brothers and sisters
- Managing difficult behaviour at home and in public
- Teen dating: guidance for parents
- Suggestibility, memory, and children’s testimony
- Childhood sexual behaviour and evaluating abuse allegations
- Coping with sexual abuse of children: clinical and family perspectives
- Preparing children for back-to-school and first-day fears
- Teacher–student conflicts and school-home collaboration
- Children who overeat and body-image concerns
- Helping children cope with trauma, war, and terrorism
- When to consult a child psychologist
For broader audiences, Dr. Warshak addresses mental health and resilience in everyday life.
- Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Emotional affairs and boundaries in relationships
- Keeping New Year’s resolutions that actually stick
- Reducing holiday stress for parents and children
- Coping with job loss and major life transitions
- Managing anxiety, including war-related and post-traumatic stress
- Memory, recall, and how we construct personal narratives
- A psychological analysis of Batman and origin-story trauma
Audiences & Organizations Addressed
Dr. Warshak has presented across North America and internationally to courts, legislatures, universities, professional societies, and community organizations.
- The White House
- U.S. Commission on Child and Family Welfare
- Circuit Court of Cook County, Domestic Relations Division (Chicago)
- State of Connecticut House of Representatives
- State of Missouri Legislature
- Texas State Legislature
- 305th District Court of Dallas County, Texas
- American Psychological Association
- Society for Research in Child Development
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- World Association for Infant Mental Health
- American Association of Psychiatric Services to Children
- Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals
- American Orthopsychiatric Association
- University of Haifa, Center for the Study of Child Development (Israel)
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Psychiatry & Pediatrics Grand Rounds)
- Florida Psychological Association
- Dallas Psychological Association
- Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute & related societies
- Pediatric Associates of Dallas
- Psychologists’ Association of Alberta (Canada)
- American Bar Association
- Texas Center for the Judiciary
- National Judicial Institute (Canadian judiciary)
- State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law Course
- Ontario Bar Association
- Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists
- Louisiana State Bar Association & Family Law Section
- Dallas, Denton, San Antonio & Tallahassee Bar Associations
- Annette Stewart Inns of Court
- Paralegal Division, State Bar of Texas
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Dallas Bar Association Family Law Bench Bar
- Texas Bar CLE and Utah State Bar programmes
- University of Texas School of Law
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (national and chapter conferences)
- International Conference on Parental Alienation Syndrome (Frankfurt, Germany)
- High Conflict Forum of Toronto
- Wisconsin Inter-Professional Committee on Divorce
- Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee
- Missouri Family Court Domestic Relations Unit
- Dallas Forensic Group
- The Family Place (domestic violence shelter)
- Jewish Family Service
- Jewish Family and Child Service of Toronto
- Texas Association of Student Special Services Programs
- Children’s Rights Council
- Federation of North Texas Area Universities
- The Atlas Society
- Family Outreach of Comal County
- Junior League of Texas
- Parent-teacher associations and independent schools
- Parental Alienation Awareness organizations in Canada and Texas
- Moorestown (NJ) Library and other community venues
Booking & Availability
Whether you are organizing a large conference, specialized judicial training, or a focused workshop for your team, Dr. Warshak can adapt his material to your goals, schedule, and audience.
For speaking engagements, please inquire with your proposed dates, location or virtual format, audience, and topic interests.