Kenneth Waldron

Background

About Kenneth Waldron

Kenneth H. Waldron, Ph.D. now retired, is psychologist whose practice had been devoted to providing services to divorced/separated parents for over 40 years, including mediation and arbitration, programs for conflicted parents, expert witness services throughout the United States and educational programs for divorcing parents. His practice has also had a major focus on treating troubled marriages. Including original research on the relationship between disagreement resolution skills and relationship conflict. Ken has published broadly on topics related to children of divorce. His books co-authored with Allan Koritzinsky, Esq, are Game Theory and the Transformation of Family Law, in which the authors analyze traditional family law using game theory principles to illustrate why traditional family law often promotes conflict and to propose alternative bargaining approaches, which promote cooperation and optimal outcomes for both parties, and families when there are children. A second book, Winning Strategies in Negotiations and Mediation, also available to is a more practical application of Game Theory principles to cases. Ken and Allan also have a book in publication with Austin-McCauley, applying research on disagreement resolution skills to marriage. The title is "The Road to a Successful Marriage is Unpaves: 7 Skills for Making Marriage Work." Their most recent book is Planning a Sensible Divorce: Avoid the Toxic Dance of a Messy Divorce. He has spoken to numerous groups of judges, attorneys, mediators and mental health providers nationwide, along with having made appearances on television, radio and participating in on-line interviews. Ken has trained professionals across the country in Structured Coparenting Counseling and Structured Coparenting Training Classes, a specialized program for reducing parenting conflict and increasing effective communication and cooperation between separated parents. Ken is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), has sat on the boards of the Eyes of the Child program development board, the Wisconsin Inter-professional Committee on Divorce (WIPCOD) and of the AFCC-Wisconsin Chapter, including co-chairing and currently sitting on the program committee and editing the AFCC-WI newsletter. He is a trained mediator and has spoken to groups on advanced mediation principles in both state and national forums.