This article written with Joan Kelly, is part of a series of articles in the Family Court Review’s July 2001 volume done by the Northern California working group on Child Alienation. Janet Johnston, Joan Kelly, Nancy Olesen, Marjorie Gans Walters, Steve Friedlander, John Sikorski and Myself collaborated on writing these articles which reconceptualized Richard Gardner’s “Parental Alienation Syndrome” concept, providing a new, systemic conceptualization, assessment and interventions for this phenomenon. This volume continues to be one of the most referred to in the history of the Family Court Review.

Please download the full article, Legal and Psychological Management of Cases with an Alienated Child in PDF format. I hope you will leave your thoughts in the Comments.

Legal and Psychological Management of Cases with an Alienated Child
Matthew Sullivan and Joan B. Kelly
Family Court Review
Vol.39 No.3, July 2001 pp.299-315