Parental Alienation

This book provides a comprehensive overview of established evidence-based interventions for the problems inherent in parental alienation.

Denise McCartan, PhD, DClinPsych, is an HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologist, who also has a research doctorate and has published her work in peer-reviewed journals. She is an Associate Fellow of The British Psychological Society (BPS), Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. As a Court Expert Witness, she has assessed hundreds of families in the family courts.

1- Understanding Parental Alienation; 2 - Why is it important and what does it look like?; 3 - Mild, Moderate and Severe Parental Alienation; 4 - Fallacies, Hybrid Cases and Justifiable Estrangement; 5 - The alienating parent; 6 - Targeted parent; 7 - The Alienated child; 8 - 'Typical Cases and Insights from Clinical Experience; 9 - The Assessment; 10 - Existing Approaches to Intervention; 11 - What Other Psychological Interventions May be Helpful in Parental Alienation?; 12 - What did we learn?