Books by PASG Members
Many PASG members are faculty members of universities in the United States and other countries. They have engaged in extensive clinical work and research regarding parental alienation. As a group, they have published hundreds of scholarly papers, book chapters, and books, some of which are listed here. The inclusion of any book on this website does not confer approval of the book or its author by the PASG Board of Directors.
The Equal Parent Presumption: Social Justice in the Legal Determination of Parenting After Divorce
Edward Kruk | English, 2013
In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the “best interests of the child” has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is “best” and because of the bias in favor of the child’s residing in one “primary residence.” In response, a consensus is beginning to emerge that it is vitally important that children maintain meaningful relationships with both parents after divorce. In The Equal Parenting Presumption, Edward Kruk proposes a child-focused approach based on a standard that considers the best interests of the child from the perspective of the child and a responsibility-to-needs orientation to social justice for children and families. Challenging previous research and received ideas, Kruk presents an evidence-based framework of equal parental responsibility as the most effective means of ensuring the protection of family relationships following divorce, and shielding children from ongoing parental conflict and family violence.
Programa de Intervención para Victimas de Interferencias Parentales
Asunción Tejedor Huerta | Spanish, 2013
This program provides measures and support material for children, victimized by parental alienation, and their parents in order to facilitate communication and expression between them and ultimately remedy the adverse consequences of parental alienation. Some content includes information that raises awareness to parents about how their conflicts psychologically and behaviorally stunt their children, as well as methods to improve their parenting strategies in order to prevent further damages on the children.
Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity
Jack C. Westman M.D. | English, 2013
Our government is forced to become involved in struggling families and their adult offspring at the cost of 23% of state and 45% of county expenditures that flow largely from our federal income taxes. One-third of our children and youth are failing in some aspect of their lives. The United States is at the top of the list of developed nations in child abuse and neglect and the bottom in educational achievement. Five children die every day from abuse. Three million referrals are made to child protective services every year. Parents who raise a productive citizen contribute $1.4 million to our economy. Parents who abuse and/or neglect a child who becomes a criminal or welfare dependent cost our economy $2.8 million. Without concerted action, every American taxpayer will continue to pay for these consequences. The framework for action is in Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity. For humanitarian and financial reasons, and for our nation’s prosperity, we must remove government from family lives by preventing the formation of, and reducing the number of, struggling families in the United States. We can do this by ensuring that every newborn baby has an opportunity to succeed in life by limiting the custody of newborn babies to persons who are not under the custody of others themselves. Only by fulfilling the right of all newborn babies to have competent parents will the United States ensure its prosperity.
Safe Kids, Smart Parents: What Parents Need to Know to Keep Their Children Safe
Rebecca Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey | English, 2013
Leading family psychologist, Rebecca Bailey, tells parents how to keep their children safe in this accessible, must-have guidebook. Whether their children are toddlers or teens, six years old or sixteen, whether they live in a rural town, suburb, or a bustling city, all parents worry about threats—from cyber-bullying to exploitation and abduction. What should they tell their children and when? What practical steps can they take to reduce the risks and keep their kids safe? Dr. Rebecca Bailey, with the assistance of her sister and registered nurse, Elizabeth Bailey, gives easily understood, easily followed answers. Safe Kids, Smart Parents builds on Dr. Bailey’s years of experience as a family psychologist helping real families deal with real situations. From abduction to abuse, Bailey explains how parents can speak to their kids about troubling topics while building their self-esteem and teaching them how to protect themselves. A smart, comprehensive, and easy-to-read resource, Safe Kids, Smart Parents is the most important book a parent can own.
Broken Family Bonds: Poems and Stories from Victims of Parental Alienation
Joan Kloth-Zanard | English, 2013
This book provides a collection of poems and stories written by real victims of parental alienation that show the psychological pain and damage caused by parental alienation.
Guía práctica de actuación ante el impedimento de contacto con los hijos
José Maria Bouza | Spanish, 2013
The purpose of this book — Practical Guide of Action Before the Impediment of Contact with Children — is to provide concepts that allow a divorced parent with minor children, without experience in family litigation, to be placed within the unknown world of the legal and social, to be linked with the children. This book shows how to participate actively in the defense of your rights and those of your children, know your obligations, know how to bond with lawyers, psychologists, and judicial officials, and recognize the environment with which you will have to deal for a long time.
Síndrome de alienación parental
Jose Manuel Aguilar | Spanish, 2013
This book describes how professionals handle parental alienation technically and analytically. It reveals the perverse communication strategies and emotional blackmail used by one parent to alienate the child from the other parent; as a result, professionals and parents alike can exercise therapeutic methods to fight against the effects of parental alienation.
Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome/Disorder – A serious form of psychological child abuse
Wilfrid von Boch-Galhau | English, 2013
Starting with the ‘Case of Effi Briest,’ as a depiction of PAS in the conditions of 19th century society, the author elaborates the pathogenic consequences of parental alienation, drawing extensively on case studies. He describes this particular form of emotional abuse with its effects both on the children concerned and on the alienated parent. This book can raise the awareness of psychiatrists and psychotherapists to the pathogenesis of adults affected by divorce or separation in their childhood, who exhibit problems relating to self-esteem, identity and relationships, and of parents who sometimes suffer from psychosomatic symptoms or suicidal crises after their children have been induced by abusive programming to break off relations with them.
Using letters from persons affected and transcribed interviews, the author illustrates the eight key symptoms of parental alienation syndrome as identified by R. Gardner, highlighting the need for greater attention to these hitherto neglected biographical aspects of a patient’s medical history. Induced alienation syndrome leads to confusion on the part of the child with regard to their self-perception and their perception by others, to an excessive adherence to the lead of the alienating parent, on whom the child is wholly dependent, to identity diffusion and a false self. The targeted parents predominantly suffer from a sense of powerlessness, especially if institutions, such as youth welfare offices, family courts or even ‘expert witnesses’, ignore or seek to play down the manipulations carried out by the alienating parent.
This highly readable book also points to numerous areas that call for research in the fields of psychotraumatology, psychosomatics and adult psychiatry. It serves to immunize (child) psychiatrists and psychotherapists against possible instrumentalisation by alienating parents to obtain improper treatment or reports in custody and access disputes. The text is extensively annotated, thus providing an overview of nearly 30 years of international research into parental alienation.
Crianza Compartida
Nelson Zicavo Martinez | Spanish, 2010
The system of divorce and custody over a child can have lasting negative impacts on the child. The welfare of both the child and the parents is harmed in this process of split parenting. Shared parenting – that is, the continued care for the child from both parents – can remedy the emotional impacts of divorce. This book explains a child’s right to live with both parents and the parents’ right to exercise full parenthood, even after divorce.
Padres Separados: Como Criar Juntos a Sus Hijos
Jorge Luis Ferrari, Nelson Zicavo Martínez | Spanish, 2011
Working With Alienated Children and Families: A Clinical Guidebook
Amy J. L. Baker, S. Richard Sauber | English, 2012
This edited volume is written by and for mental health professionals who work directly with alienated children and their parents. The chapters are written by leaders in the field, all of whom know how vexing parental alienation can be for mental health professionals.
No matter how the professional intersects with families affected by alienation, be it through individual treatment, reunification therapy, a school setting, or support groups, he or she needs to consider how to make proper assessments, how to guard against bias, and when and how to involve the court system, among other challenges.
The cutting edge clinical interventions presented in this book will help professionals answer these questions and help them to help their clients. The authors present a range of clinical options such as parent education, psycho-educational programs for children, and reunification programs for children and parents that make this volume a useful reference and practical guide.
Is 5 Too Late?
Rev. Gail L. Rocke | English, 2010
The author said, “I tell the true story of how I came to adopt four children from four different ethnicities. … The book is a step-by-step narration of all significant events relating to the adoption portion of my life.” The main purpose of the book is to make readers aware of the devastating effects that any child’s early childhood experiences can have on him or her. The book considers whether a child is “salvageable” at the age of five years, after experiencing years of neglect, abuse, and trauma after trauma. The author points out how inadequate are the resources available to adoptive families. She brings the readers through her own difficulties, including her divorce, her alcoholism, her suicidality, and, finally, her spiritual awakening.
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs
Steven Hassan | English, 2012
In the post 911 world, people are more susceptible than ever to charismatic figures who offer simple, black v. white, us v. them, good v. evil, formulaic solutions. The rise of the Internet; increasingly sophisticated knowledge about how to influence and manipulate others; and the growing vulnerabilities of people across the planet—make for a dangerous, potentially devastating combination. Steven Hassan’s new book Freedom of Mind provides the knowledge and awareness needed to help yourself and loved ones avoid or escape from such dangerous people and situations. The Internet is now the primary vehicle for recruitment and indoctrination. It is also a means for spreading sophisticated information about social psychology, hypnosis, and other techniques of social control, which are being used—in ways both effective and dangerous—by “influence professionals.” Meanwhile, people are becoming increasingly vulnerable. Freedom of Mind provides help for yourself, a loved one, or a friend.
Parental Alienation 911 Workbook
Jill Egizii, Judge Michele Lowrance | English, 2012
This product is ideal for anyone who wants to understand the facts about parental alienation. In particular this product is geared toward arming parents who wonder if they are experiencing alienation with all the information they need to make the best of a difficult, potentially inflammatory situation.
The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Family Therapy and Collaborative Systems Approach to Amelioration
Linda J. Gottlieb | English, 2012
In this thought-provoking book, Ms. Gottlieb attempts to resolve the controversies surrounding parental alienation syndrome (PAS) by providing substantial empirical evidence from her treatment cases in support of the eight symptoms which child psychiatrist, Richard Gardner, had identified as occurring in the PAS child, and she further exemplifies the commonality of the alienating maneuvers among the alienating parents. Numerous case examples are explored: horrific tales of manufactured child abuse; referrals to child protective services (CPS) resulting in suspension of visits between targeted parents and their children; meritless reports to police alleging domestic violence in support of orders of protection; and exclusionary tactics preventing targeted parents’ involvement in their children’s medical, educational, social lives and activities. Ms. Gottlieb methodically documents that PAS is a form of emotional child abuse of the severest kind. The author provides an unprecedented number of treatment summaries, which demonstrate the effectiveness of structural family therapy in treating the PAS family. This book will be an excellent resource for: parents who are divorcing or are in conflict, adult victims of PAS, judges, law guardians, matrimonial attorneys, therapists, child protective personnel, law enforcement — and for the professional rescuer who believes that a child must be saved from a parent..
Abus de Faiblesse et Autres Manipulations
Marie-France Hirigoyen | French, 2012
People influence each other every day, but manipulation is the abuse of influence over another person, the targeting and exploiting of another’s emotional and mental weaknesses. Hirigoyen analyzes scenarios of manipulation as she explores complex distinctions between “appropriate” and “inappropriate” influence. One of the vignettes in the book pertains to parental alienation.
Listen to Me!!! Your Child and Your Divorce
Daniel Gottlieb | English, 2012
Listen to ME!!! is a compilation of expressions direct from the minds and hearts of children. All are direct quotes, completely real, taken from deep discussions in the psychologist’s office. These verbatim testimonies make it easy for parents to better understand their children’s emotional experiences throughout the process of divorce. Divorce is an emotional and traumatic process, and in a certain way, it encompasses an element of irrationality, especially when considering its high psychological and economic price. Listen to ME!!! was born from a desire to help parents understand their children. Rather than appealing to their minds, it appeals directly to their hearts. Dr Daniel Gottlieb has written Listen to ME!!!, a powerful book that describes the consequences of divorce for the entire family, based on his experiences as the court-appointed psychologist for hundreds of divorce cases across the country of Israel.
Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome/Disorder – Eine ernst zu nehmende Form von psychischer Kindesmisshandlung – mit Fallbeispielen
Wilfrid von Boch-Galhau | German, 2013
SAP. Síndrome de Alienación Parental
Jose Manuel Aguilar | Spanish, 2013
This book simply yet rigorously describes the process of one parent’s manipulation of a child to reject the other parent without justification. This was the first book to explain this phenomenon, parental alienation, in Spanish. Consequently, it also became a reference about parental alienation to the Spanish-speaking world.
The Essentials of Parental Alienation Syndrome: It’s Real, It’s Here and It Hurts
Robert A. Evans Ph.D., J. Michael Bone Ph.D. | English, 2011
We are seeing an increase in high conflict, adversarial divorce cases in mental health practices and in the courtrooms around the country. These cases present with a significant amount of parental conflict and, as a consequence, represent a threat to the children caught in the middle of these conflicts. Curiously, there is a great commonality among these cases in terms of the tactics alienators use to separate a parent from his or her children. It is almost as if they, the favored parent, were reading from a published playbook. Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is acknowledged as being controversial within the mental health profession and equally controversial within the legal profession. It is important for professionals to get a sense of both sides of the PAS issue. Whether one uses PAS as a term, the problems brought by these cases are very real. Whether or not it is the appropriate diagnosis or description of behavior in a case must be determined by facts of that case and supported by evidence and data from multiple sources. An appropriate diagnosis and identification of PAS, along with a description of the severity, can make the difference between timely and effective interventions or allowing parents and children to be scarred for the rest of their lives.