PARENTAL ALIENATION, DSM-5, AND ICD-11; CONTENTS; Chapter One DEFINITIONS AND GOALS; Chapter Two TWENTY REASONS WHY PARENTAL ALIENATION SHOULD BE A DIAGNOSIS; Chapter Three PUBLISHED CRITERIA FOR A NEW DIAGNOSIS IN DSM-5; Chapter Four CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; Appendix A PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR PARENTAL ALIENATION DISORDER; Appendix B PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR PARENTAL ALIENATION RELATIONAL PROBLEM; Appendix C LEGAL CITATIONS REGARDING PARENTAL ALIENATION; Appendix D PARENTAL ALIENATION AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC; Appendix E BIBLIOGRAPHY REGARDING PARENTAL ALIENATION; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Summary
Parental alienation is an important phenomenon that mental health professionals should know about and thoroughly understand, especially those who work with children, adolescents, divorced adults, and adults whose parents divorced when they were children. In this book, the authors define parental alienation as a mental condition in which a child - usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict divorce - allies himself or herself strongly with one parent (the preferred parent) and rejects a relationship with the other parent (the alienated parent) without legitimate justification. This
