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

Preface?Alienation and reunification issues in family courts: Theory, research, and programs in child custody cases? Introduction?Parental alienation vs coercive control: Controversial issues and current research? 1. Coercion in families and child resistance to contact with a parent after family separation? 2. “He was the king of the house” children’s perspectives on the men who abused their mothers? 3. Examining associations between psychological control and proactive and reactive aggression among middle school age youth? 4. Perpetration of intimate partner violence and guilt: the role of parenting status? 5. The Trouble with Harman and Lorandos’ Parental Alienation Allegations in Family Court Study (2020)? 6. Attachment issues and reunification of parents and children? 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?? 8. Reunification, alienation, or re-traumatization? Let’s start listening to the child? 9. Reunification therapies for parental alienation: Tenets, empirical evidence, commonalities, and differences? 10. How efficacious is Building Family Bridges? What the legal and mental health fields should know about Building Family Bridges and “parental alienation”? 11. The “solution” to parental alienation: A critique of the turning points and overcoming barriers reunification programs