Parental alienation : the handbook for mental health and legal professionals [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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PARENTAL ALIENATION: Book; Section I Strategies for Mental Health and Legal Professionals; Chapter 1 OVERVIEW OF PARENTAL ALIENTATION; Chapter 2 THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT OF CONTACT REFUSAL; Chapter 3 MILD CASES OF PARENTAL ALIENATION; Chapter 4 MODERATE CASES OF PARENTAL ALIENATION; Chapter 5 SEVERE CASES OF PARENTAL ALIENATION; Chapter 6 SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF CUSTODY AND VISITATION DISPUTES; Chapter 7 REUNIFICATION PLANNING AND THERAPY; Chapter 8 LEGAL INTERVENTIONS IN CASES OF PARENTAL ALIENATION.

Chapter 9 PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF THE FAMILY LAW SYSTEM:MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROCESSES AND FAMILY LAW REFORMSection IIFoundations of Parental Alienation:Historical, Scientific, and Legal; Chapter 10 THE HISTORY OF PARENTAL ALIENATION FROM EARLY DAYS TO MODERN TIMES; Chapter 11 PARENTAL ALIENATION RESEARCH AND THE DAUBERT STANDARDS; Chapter 12 PARENTAL ALIENATION AND NORTH AMERICAN LAW; Chapter 13 PARENTAL ALIENATION INITIATIVES AROUND THE WORLD; Chapter 14 PARENTAL ALIENATION ANDTHE NEW BRAZILIAN LAW; Chapter 15 PARENTAL ALIENATION, DSM-5, AND ICD-11.

Chapter 16 A JUDGE'S PERSPECTIVE ON PARENTAL ALIENATIONNAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCE GUIDE FOR PARENTAL ALIENATION; CONTENTS; Part I REFERENCES IN THE PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE; Part II REPRESENTATIVE NORTH AMERICAN LEGAL CASES; Part III SAMPLE MOTIONS IN PARENTAL ALIENATION CASES; MOTION or REQUEST FOR DISCOVERY; MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY; MOTION FOR DISCOVERY OF OFFICER'S NOTES; MOTION FOR DISCOVERY OF COMPLAINANT'S MEDICAL RECORDS; MOTION FOR IN CAMERA REVIEW OF THE MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORDS OF [COMPLAINING WITNESS].

MOTION TO COMPEL PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE ALLEGED VICTIMMOTION TO USE MEDICAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORDS AFTER REDACTION OF NON-RELEVANT MATERIAL; MOTION TO ADMIT CERTAIN PORTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS PERTAINING TO LIES AND ATTEMPTS AT MANIPULATION [Guardian/Complaining Witness]; MOTION TO ADMIT EVIDENCE OF PARENTAL ALIENATION AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL RAMIFICATIONS; MOTION TO ALLOW EXTENDED VOIR DIRE OF PROPOSED EXPERT WITNESS; MOTION TO CONDUCT A DAUBERT HEARING; MOTION TO CONDUCT A TAINT HEARING.

Motion to allow expert to review documents, watch complaining witness testify, and then testify as an expertmotion to admit expert's testimony on psychological factors affecting motive or capacity to perceive, recollect, or communicate; motion to exclude complainant's testimony as incompetent; motion to exclude use of theword "victim" during trial; motion to exclude evidence of alleged victim's status as "in therapy" or as a "dependent child"; motion to exclude post-molestation symptions of alleged victim; motion to exclude evidence of "profiles" of child molesters.

Parental Alienation: The Handbook for Mental Health and Legal Professionals is the essential ""how to"" manual in this important and ever increasing area of behavioral science and law. Busy mental health professionals need a reference guide to aid them in developing data sources to support their positions in reports and testimony. They also need to know where to go to find the latest material on a topic. Having this material within arm's reach will avoid lengthy and time-consuming online research. For legal professionals who must ground their arguments in well thought out motions and repeated.