Marsha Kline Pruett, Ph.D., M.S.L., ABPP, is the Maconda Brown O’Connor Professor at Smith College School for Social Work and a Clinical/Community Psychologist with a master’s degree in legal studies. She has over 30 years of teaching and clinical experience in private and public practice, with expertise in couples counseling and coaching, father involvement and coparenting consultation, and the design and evaluation of model programs created to minimize family conflict and help solve disputes within and outside of the legal system.

Dr. Kline Pruett is a co-author of the Coparenting Across Family Structures tool for assessing coparenting across diverse family structures. One of the four designers and consultants of the Supporting Fatherhood Involvement (SFI) Program, she has been involved in its design and implementation in the U.S. and Canada and in current adaptations in the U.S. and abroad. It is recognized as one of four evidence-based programs that have the potential to reduce violence and dysfunction in families.

She is a prolific writer and speaker for scholarly and lay audiences including the book Partnership Parenting, a past President of the national AFCC Board of Directors, and the Social Science editor for the Family Court Review. She currently serves on the MA-AFCC Board of Directors.