Hijos Manipulados Tras la Separación – Cómo Detectar y Tratar la Alienación Parental [Children Manipulated After Separation – How to Detect and Treat Parental Alienation]

This book analyzes the episodes of parental alienation and familial conflict and how its effects on each family member – especially the children – progress over time, leading to psychological disorders as the final result for the children. The book also explores the most common causes of alienation and healthy, effective ways for the alienated […]

Parental Alienation: The Handbook for Mental Health and Legal Professionals

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 […]

Benchbook In The Behavioral Sciences: Psychiatry-Psychology-Social Work

Thousands of judges, attorneys, and court personnel have to deal with experts in the behavioral sciences every day. Expert testimony from behavioral scientists (psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers) is the fastest growing area of expertise in American courts. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions in and have profoundly altered the rules of evidence regarding expert testimony. […]

Parental Alienation — Science and Law

explains the research that creates the foundation for the assessment, identification, and intervention in cases of parental alienation (PA). For attorneys, judges, and family law professionals, this book explains in detail the scientific basis for testimony and legal decisions that relate to PA. There are two complementary features for most of the chapters. First, the […]

Manuale di valutazione delle capacità genitoriali: APS-I, Assessment of Parental Skills Interview

The evaluation of the parenting is a multidisciplinary activity, with contributions from clinical psychology, child development, neuropsychiatry, family psychology, social psychology, and forensic psychiatry. There are operational applications that can result in different levels of psychosocial intervention. The authors have developed a tool called APS-I (Assessment of Parental Skills-Interview), aimed at evaluating specific behaviors (current […]

Bekrast (Surprised)

Nothing can be buried forever, no matter how much you would like it to be. Eventually, the past always looks around the corner. Lisanne has a particular grudge, such that she must return to her youth and the angry divorce of her parents. Lisanne talks to a psychologist, after which she opens her invisible box […]

Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Social Work and Human Services

This timely collection written from a social work perspective includes original chapters by leading experts in specific fields of mediation and conflict resolution. Each chapter examines a field of practice, describes the actual mediation/conflict resolution process, considers current debates and research, and provides alternatives to mediation. Gender, race, class, and cultural diversity issues are integrated […]

Child Custody Evaluations by Social Workers: Understanding the Five Stages of Custody

The arrival of Child Custody Evaluations by Social Workers: Understanding the Five Stages of Custody fills what was previously a void in the child welfare literature by defining the parameters of child custody and advocating the use of a stages model to conduct custody evaluations. Because social workers understand the significance of ecological models and […]