New Ways for Families: A Court-Orderable Method
New Ways for Families is a short, structured skills method from Bill Eddy and the High Conflict Institute that a court can order for both parents. Learn what it teaches, how it differs from one-sided interventions, and the honest state of the evidence.
Articles & Guides
Measuring Parental Alienation: the PARQ
The PARQ is the one peer-reviewed instrument built to quantify the splitting that marks parental alienation. Its PARQ-Gap separates alienation-driven rejection from justified estrangement by measuring a child’s lost ambivalence. Strong evidence, one input among many, never a standalone verdict.
Parental Alienation Statistics: A Press Explainer
Parental alienation statistics, a plain-language definition, the DSM-5 status, the distinction from estrangement caused by abuse, named experts journalists can interview, and a one-screen quick-reference card. Built for press and educators who need a citable explainer with primary sources and without sensationalism.
Parental Alienation Resources for Professionals
A role-routed hub for professionals who encounter parental alienation: clinical assessment and treatment guides for clinicians, evidence and litigation frameworks for attorneys, screening-first guidance for mediators, and accuracy standards for educators and journalists. Every page cites primary sources and presents contested points as contested.
Covering Parental Alienation Responsibly
Covering parental alienation responsibly means treating it as a contested construct, not a settled diagnosis, and separating genuine alienating behaviour from a child’s justified rejection of an abusive parent. A reporter’s guide built on the Family Justice Council 2024 framework.
Covering Parental Alienation: A Guide for Press & Educators
Parental alienation coverage fails in two directions: credulous stories weaponize a contested concept, and dismissive stories erase a documented harm. This hub gives journalists and educators the contested-status map, a language guide for terms that overclaim or underclaim, and sourcing standards that survive scrutiny.
Parental Alienation Mediation: A Screening-First Guide
Parental alienation mediation is family mediation in cases of alleged alienating behaviors. The mediator’s first job is screening. Interest-based mediation assumes a balance of power, and that assumption fails where coercive control is present. Here is when mediation is appropriate, when it is not, and where to refer.
High-Conflict Mediation in Parental Alienation Cases
High-conflict mediation in parental alienation cases works only when the mediator narrows the goal to a workable parenting plan. This guide covers shuttle versus joint sessions, the BIFF method, the EAR statement, the parenting coordinator handoff, and signals to refer out to a forensic evaluator or PA clinician.
Parental Alienation in Mediation: A Mediator’s Guide
Parental alienation dynamics break the core assumption of interest-based mediation: a level table. This mediator’s hub covers screening signals, the domestic violence carve-out, when mediation is and is not appropriate, process adaptations, and an honest account of the thin evidence base behind all of it.
Trauma Therapy for Parental Alienation: Clinician Guide
Trauma therapy for parental alienation works in sequence: screen for abuse and safety first, stabilize the nervous system, then process trauma and support relational repair. A trauma-informed overview of TF-CBT, EMDR, attachment-based, and family-systems approaches for clinicians, with the do-no-harm cautions that keep reunification work safe.