A Practical Guide to Parental Alienation in Private and Public Law Children Cases

The existence and definition of parental alienation has been the subject of consistent debate over the years. It is now broadly summarised as a child's resistance or hostility towards one parent, which is unjustified and the result of psychological manipulation by the other parent, and is a concept that private children practitioners over recent years have been grappling with increasingly frequently in practice.

This book provides the reader with a history of the emergence of parental aliena...