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EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND PREVENTION OF PARENT–CHILD ALIENATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR BALANCING RISKS AND BENEFITS OF INTERVENTION
Author(s) -
Jaffe Peter G.,
Ashbourne Dan,
Mamo Alfred A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-1617.2009.01294.x
Subject(s) - citation , economic justice , alienation , intervention (counseling) , family court , identification (biology) , library science , sociology , criminology , psychology , law , computer science , political science , psychiatry , botany , biology
The concept of parent–child alienation has a long history of controversy in both legal and clinical practice in the family courts. The debate has become more intense as discussions about definitions and diagnoses have evolved, including the development of more controversial interventions such as those described by Gardner in his work on parental alienation syndrome (PAS) in the 1980s and more recently by Warshak in his preliminary evaluation of Family Bridges: A Workshop for Troubled and Alienated Parent-Child Relationship (Warshak, 2010). The family courts have seen increasing litigation about allegations of parental alienation (Bala, Hunt, & McCarney, 2010). In this article we put this debate into a broader historical context on the limitations of the justice system and our current knowledge in imposing various clinical interventions on separating parents and children and offer a framework for fostering the prevention and early intervention for parent–child alienation.fcre_1294 136..152