Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children From Parental AlienationDivorce Casualties helps parents recognize the often subtle causes of alienation and teaches them how to prevent or minimize its damaging effects. Dr. Darnall gives readers practical, specific techniques for recognizing and reversing the effects of alienation including a self-report inventory to help parents assess their own alienating behavior and exercises to help them understand and modify it. |
Contents
What is Parental Alienation Syndrome? | 1 |
How Parental Alienation Affects Children | 23 |
Giving Your Children What They Need | 39 |
Why Parents Alienate | 66 |
How Parents Alienate | 91 |
More Alienation Tactics Secrecy and Spying | 113 |
The Importance of Symbolic Communication | 122 |
Values and Discipline | 139 |
Allegations of Sexual Abuse | 197 |
Significant Others | 207 |
Working Successfully with Attorneys Mediators and Counselors | 220 |
When All Else Fails Seeking a Change in Custody | 236 |
What Are You To Do? | 247 |
Custody and the Court System | 253 |
Bibliography | 261 |
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Active Alienator adjustment alienating parent allegations anger angry argument ask your children attorney avoid bad touch become behave behavior believe best interest better blame cause change of custody chil child support children need children's activities court order custodial parent decision defensive divorced parents dren drugs emotional evaluation ex-spousal issues ex-spouse's example expect father feel guilty fight friends give going grandparents guilt happens harassing hear hurt important Jerri Jessie judge keep kids Larry listen marriage mediator Megan mother Naïve Alienator noncustodial parent obsessed alienator offender parental alienation syndrome person power struggle problems professional help psychologist question react reason relationship remember responsibility schedule seeking custody sexual abuse shared parenting someone Sometimes spouse symbolic talk targeted parent tell therapist things tion tody trigger trust understand usually values victimized weekend wrong