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This chapter utilizes the peer-reviewed literature to define alienation as a parent/child relational difficulty assessed by the presentation in the child’s behavior. Twenty-seven years of published research on the validity and reliability of the parental alienation construct is summarized and it is noted that the phenomenon has passed both the Fyre and Daubert tests in the U SA and the Mohan test in Canada. The research into incident and prevalence in PA is discussed and conservative data utilized to document that approximately 25 % of children involved in custody disputes manifest parental alienation. The differential diagnosis of PA is illustrated with an explication of the presenting symptoms in the alienated child, target parent, and alienating parent. Longitudinal research is summarized describing the sequelae of PA in child victims. The role of mental health professionals as assessors, parenting coordinators, therapists, and reunification workers is discussed. Court intervention in Canada and the USA is illustrated with published data from those courts themselves. More than 150 citations to the literature of science and law are provided.

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Lorandos, D. (2014). Parental Alienation. In: Morewitz, S., Goldstein, M. (eds) Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7178-3_23

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