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Parental Alienation and Family Reunification: Controversial Issues, Current Research, Approaches and Programs (eBook)

Edited by: Pearl S. Berman, Ethan M. Weisinger

ISBN13: 9781003846604
Published: February 2024
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: eBook (ePub)
Price: Out of print
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This book on parental alienation and family reunification provides family court professionals with critical background in child development, dynamics present in violent families, and how to evaluate the testimony of experts to ensure it values children’s views, best interests of the children, and follows evidence-based practice.

As laid out in the Child Welfare Information Gateway report, 2020, Family court judges should make decisions per the best interests of the child standard. High conflict custody cases make this complicated, especially when reunification services are requested. In the middle of contentious proceedings, judges oftentimes receive conflicting information from parents. Judges and family law professionals can be lead astray, relying on unproven constructs and instruments not meeting the criteria of reliability and validity. Mandating victimized children into reunification programs that are neither evidence-based nor trauma informed can cause further harm to the children.

This book will be of interest to those working in the family courts, particularly expert witnesses, clinical psychologists, therapists, children’s services workers including social workers, child protection court workers, mental health professionals involved in child custody decisions, and researchers with an interest in parental alienation.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of 'Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development'.

Subjects:
Family Law, eBooks
Contents:
Preface—Alienation and reunification issues in family courts: Theory, research, and programs in child custody cases
Morgan Shaw and Robert Geffner
Introduction—Parental alienation vs coercive control: Controversial issues and current research
Pearl S.Berman and Ethan Weisinger
1. Coercion in families and child resistance to contact with a parent after family separation
Kelly M. Champion
2. “He was the king of the house” children’s perspectives on the men who abused their mothers
Simon Lapierre, Isabelle Côté and Geneviève Lessard
3. Examining associations between psychological control and proactive and reactive aggression among middle school age youth
Paula J. Fite, Kathleen I. Díaz and Madelaine R. Abel
4. Perpetration of intimate partner violence and guilt: the role of parenting status
Emily C. Taverna, Devin J. McGuier and Amy D. Marshall
5. The Trouble with Harman and Lorandos’ Parental Alienation Allegations in Family Court Study (2020)
Joan S. Meier, Sean Dickson, Chris S. O’Sullivan and Leora N. Rosen
6. Attachment issues and reunification of parents and children
Jean Mercer
7. Parental sobriety and Parent-Child reunification in dependency court: Does the 15-month Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) rule support parent-child reunification?
Eileen M. Ahlin, Don Hummer and Mitra Honardoost
8. Reunification, alienation, or re-traumatization? Let’s start listening to the child
Suzanne Chester
9. Reunification therapies for parental alienation: Tenets, empirical evidence, commonalities, and differences
Jean Mercer
10. How efficacious is Building Family Bridges? What the legal and mental health fields should know about Building Family Bridges and “parental alienation”
Diana S. Avalle, Brianna J. Smith, Katherine E. O. Wiedeman and Chris B. Garnica
11. The “solution” to parental alienation: A critique of the turning points and overcoming barriers reunification programs
Elena Andreopoulos and Alison Wexler