According to a new study, parental alienating behaviors and coercively controlling abuse are similar, and should be treated similarly in family court proceedings. Abusive intimate relationships are ...

Stephanie Brandt MD is a board-certified adult and child psychiatrist with over 40 years of experience in providing diagnosis and treatment for adults, adolescents, and children with diverse and ...

Prevention of the disintegration of families is such an important goal that judges, traditionally cautious, practical, and careful, can be enlisted to actively try to reverse the effects of a family's ...

From time to time, one parent undermining the other parent's relationship with their children is a prevailing factor in custody cases. The undermining by one parent of the other parent's relationship ...

A distraught divorced mother reports that when her formerly loving daughter returns from vacations at her father's house, the child treats her with disrespect and hostility. A divorced father of a ...