Parental alienation is diagnosed almost exclusively in family courts — either by privately hired expert witnesses or court-appointed custody evaluators. There, it is used to explain why a minor ...

At its core, alienation is about a child’s behavior, not about a parent’s behavior, and it involves a profound change in a child’s reaction to a previously loved parent.

In both cases, the controversial theory of “parental alienation”—the idea that one parent had “brainwashed” the kids to turn against the other parent—had swayed a family court judge to ...

While parental alienation has always existed, only recently have family courts begun to take notice of the issue when it occurs, to recognize that it is profoundly harmful to any child or children ...

Depending upon the identity of the person being quoted, “parental alienation” is either a myth, a scourge, a court-calendar-clogging phenomenon, a moneymaking opportunity for “deprogrammers ...

When does alienation begin? When a child is born, each parent forms a bond, or attachment to the child known as child attachment theory. For the future alienating parent this bond is often based ...

Parental alienation is a phenomenon that can emerge during and after a divorce, where one parent’s behavior consciously or unconsciously undermines the child’s relationship with the other parent.

When parental alienation is raised, mothers can experience intimidation from many angles – fathers, family report writers, judges and lawyers – all painting them as “hysterical, vindictive ...

Parental alienation remains on a list of proposals that are subject to further review, though it did not pass muster with the work group dealing with childhood and adolescent disorders.

Parental alienation cannot be allowed to ruin our children’s mental health now and going forward. Alan D. Blotcky, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice in ...

Parental alienation remains on a list of proposals that are subject to further review, though it did not pass muster with the work group dealing with childhood and adolescent disorders.