Sixteen-Session Group Treatment for Children and Adolescents With Parental Alienation and Their Parents
INTRODUCTIONParental alienation (PA) is a type of peri-divorce familial dysfunction characterized by the preoccupation of children with the denigration and the excessive criticism of one, most often the non-custodial, parent (Gardner, 1987; Wallerstein & Kelly, 1976). First recognized in their seminal study on the children of divorce, Wallerstein and Kelly (1976) identified children who, they …
