Parental alienation occurs when a child refuses to have a relationship with a parent due to manipulation, such as the conveying of exaggerated or false information, by the other parent. The situation ...

Parental alienation is a real problem in disputes over custody in Virginia. This happens when one parent tries to harm or disrupt the relationship of a child with the other ...

From time to time, one parent undermining the other parent's relationship with their children is a prevailing factor in custody cases. The undermining by one parent of the other parent's relationship ...

The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's ...

According to a new study, parental alienating behaviors and coercively controlling abuse are similar, and should be treated similarly in family court proceedings. Abusive intimate relationships are ...

The public often assumes that in 2023, after 24 seasons of "Law & Order: SVU," there is a general understanding of domestic violence and that victims of domestic violence are well protected by the ...

Alan D. Blotcky, Ph.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. William Bernet, M.D., is Professor Emeritus for the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt ...