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Professionals

EMMM considers that the minimum key areas of expertise required of a single expert include:  


  • Parental alienation dynamics
  • Family Violence and child maltreatment
  • Sexual abuse
  • Attachment theory
  • Personality disorders
  • Anxieties, fears and phobias
  • Child Development
  • Family systems
  • Complex trauma
  • False confessions
  • False memories
  • Repressed memories 
  • Assessment and diagnosis
  • Trauma-informed practice 
  • Risk Assessments (risk of harm to self, others and child safety risk)
  • Interviewing Children (see note)


Note: It must be determined whether the interviewing, questioning and counselling techniques used with the child were so suggestive that they had the capacity to substantially alter the child's recollections of events and thus compromise the reliability of the child's personal knowledge. 

Parental  alienation cases are counterintuitive and can externally look very similar. Identifying and presenting a case to the family court is not a one size fits all.

Childhood Psychological Abuse as Harmful as Sexual or Physical Abuse


"Given the prevalence of childhood psychological abuse and the severity of harm to young victims, it should be at the forefront of mental health and social service training.”  Joseph Spinazzola, PhD


Parental Alienation Articles

Latest Research

Visit our RESEARCH page, which lists the most recent and past academic articles on parental alienation by experts from around the world. We regularly update our website with the latest research.

Can a child be influenced by suggestive questioning from parents, interviewers or other individuals?

Yes. Anyone, especially a child, is susceptible to influence through coercive, suggestive, or even benign questioning. An understanding of whether the questioning, interviews,  interrogation or counselling of the child was unduly suggestive requires a highly nuanced inquiry into the atmosphere and demeanour surrounding verbal interactions between the child and adults.

CHILD INTERVIEW GUIDE (PDF)

Recommended Resources for Lawyers & Mental Health Professionals

Parental Alienation | Science and Law (2020)

By Demosthenes Lorandos and William Bernet.

CC Thomas


Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation | A Guide to Assessment and Intervention (2020)

By Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson and Marcus Turnball

Routledge


Litigating Parental Alienation | Evaluating and Presenting an Effective Case in Court (2021)

By Ashish S Joshi

American Bar Association

  

Restoring Family Connections | Helping Targeted Parents and Adult Alienated Children Work through Conflict, Improve Communication, and Enhance Relationships (2020)

By Amy JL Baker, Paul R Fine and Alianna Lacheen-Baker

Rowman & Littlefield


Children Held Hostage | Identifying Brainwashed Children, Presenting a Case, and Crafting Solutions

By Stanley Clawar & Brynne Rivlin

PARENTAL ALIENATION STUDY GROUP

Parental Alienation Database

A large bibliography regarding parental alienation has been jointly developed by PASG and the Eskind Biomedical Library of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  Access the Parental Alienation Database at https://ckm.vumc.org/pasg.

PASG on YouTube [Videos]

Videos about Parental Alienation, written by members of the Parental Alienation Study Group, and produced by The Law Center. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkj28_4yhpqYjg9j2aY-y1x7j7ZY44T61

Resources

A list of extensive resources

https://pasg.info/resources/

Books by PASG Members

Many PASG members are faculty members of universities in the United States and other countries.  They have engaged in extensive clinical work and research regarding parental alienation. As a group, they have published hundreds of scholarly papers, book chapters, and books, some  of which are listed here. The inclusion of any book on this website does  not confer approval of the book or its author by the PASG Board of  Directors. https://pasg.info/books/

Online Parental Alienation Education

Together with the National Coalition Against Parental Alienation (NCAPA), the Parental Alienation Study Group offers two online courses regarding parental alienation – at no cost to the participants.  Access  the online courses at http://ncapa.thinkific.com/.

Truth and Consequence

Mousetrap Study

At Cornell University, renowned psychologist Stephen Ceci studies the accuracy of children's courtroom testimony, particularly in cases alleging physical abuse, sexual abuse,  and neglect. "Truth and Consequence" is a short independent documentary that focuses on Professor Ceci's research and three court cases in which he testified as an expert witness.

Classical Conditioning

The Little Albert Experiment was a controlled experiment showing empirical evidence of classical conditioning in humans. The study also provides an example of stimulus generalisation.


If a child can be taught to fear Santa Claus, then a child can be taught to fear a parent.

Suggestibility

Watch Dr. Demosthenes Lorandos as an Expert Witness on "Suggestibility"
NBC TV - Accused Falsely

False Memories

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics and raises some important ethical questions we should all remember to consider. 

STILL FACE EXPERIMENT

Using the "Still Face" Experiment, in which a mother denies her baby attention for a short period of time, Dr Edward Tronick describes how prolonged lack of attention can move an infant from good socialisation, to periods of bad but repairable socialisation. In "ugly" situations the child does not receive any chance to return to the good, and may become stuck.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. 

The CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one  of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect.

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.  

Testimony: Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff


Dr.  Shonkoff testified about both the trauma that such a forcible  separation can cause, as well as the long-term effects of toxic stress  that continue to compound until separated children and their parents or   caregivers are reunited.


"From  a scientific perspective, the forcible separation of children from  their parents is like setting a house on fire. Prolonging that  separation is like preventing the first responders from doing their  job." - Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.



Children's Rights Litigation

Trauma Caused by Separation of Children from Parents

Trauma Caused by Separation of Children from Parents

A Tool to Help Lawyers
Australian Institute of Family Studies

AIFS Library on Parental Alienation

Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?

Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?

The latest material added to the Australian Institute of Family Studies library database is displayed. Where available online, a link to the document is provided. Many items can be borrowed from the Institute's library via the Interlibrary loan system.

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Child in Need of Protection

Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?

Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?

Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?

A critical issue faced by researchers working in the area of child maltreatment concerns the definition of child maltreatment. 

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Child Abuse and Neglect

What is child abuse and neglect?

Australian legal definitions: When is a child in need of protection?

What is child abuse and neglect?

Child maltreatment refers to any non-accidental behaviour by parents,  caregivers, other adults or older adolescents that is outside the norms  of conduct and entails a substantial risk of causing physical or  emotional harm to a child or young person.

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UNHRC

Rights of the Child

Convention on the Rights of the Child

An important international convention, agreed to by the nations of the world. Of itself, it has little legal weight, but its contents have been incorporated, to varying degrees, into the laws of individual countries.

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Children of Parents with Mental Illness (COPMI)


This series of videos were created for young people (from 10 years and above) who have a  parent who experiences a mental illness.


  • What is Mental Illness?
  • What is a Personality Disorder?
  • What is Depression?
  • What is Psychosis?
  • What is Anxiety?
  • What is BiPolar?
  • What are Eating Disorders?
  • Getting Better
  • Looking After You


LINK TO VIDEOS

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Five Factor Model for Parental Alienation

Citation: Parental Alienation - Science and Law. Demosthenes Lorandos and William Bernet (2020)
https://www.ccthomas.com/details.cfm?P_ISBN13=9780398093242


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