Books by PASG Members
Many PASG members are faculty members of universities in the United States and other countries. They have engaged in extensive clinical work and research regarding parental alienation. As a group, they have published hundreds of scholarly papers, book chapters, and books, some of which are listed here. The inclusion of any book on this website does not confer approval of the book or its author by the PASG Board of Directors.
Obstrucción del vínculo de los nietos con sus abuelos
José Maria Bouza | Spanish, 2015
This book — Obstruction of the Bond of Grandchildren with Their Grandparents — explains common questions and doubts regarding these important relationships. The book discusses relevant modifications in the law, comparing the old and new laws and the central changes of the new Commercial Civil Code. It provides a typical schedule for visitation with grandparents.
Combating Cult Mind Control: The Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults
Steven Hassan | English, 2015
On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people including a U.S. congressman Leo Ryan died because of Cult Leader Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana. Over 300 were children forced to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid by their parents who believed they were doing God’s will. The techniques of undue influence have evolved dramatically, and continue to do so. Today, a vast array of methods exist to deceive, manipulate, and indoctrinate people into closed systems of obedience and dependency. If you are reading this updated book for the first time, please know that you have found a safe, respectful, compassionate place. This book can help you protect or regain your sanity, freedom, and health. It can also help you protect others from the use of mind control techniques. Sadly, the essential information in this book is still not widely known or understood. People around the world remain largely unprepared for the new realities of mind control. But you are far from helpless. There is a great deal you can do to stay safe, sane, and whole — and to help the people you care about to do the same. And if someone you love is already part of a mind control group, there is much you can do to help them break free and rebuild their life. This book will give you the tools you need.
El Síndrome De Alienación Parental: Una Forma De Maltrato
Asunción Tejedor Huerta | Spanish, 2015
Recounting two cases of parental alienation in the Familiar Meeting Point Service of Seville, an organization that facilitates the measures agreed upon by Spanish family courts with divorced families, Tejedor Huerta exposes this syndrome as a form of child abuse with detrimental psychological consequences. Tejedor Huerta also suggests methods of intervention to prevent further psychological strain on the children.
Hijos Perdidos: Alienación Parental Es Abuso Infantil
Gladys Monge | Spanish, 2014
This is an easy-to-understand guide for divorced and separated parents, as well as for mental health professionals, legal professionals, and the general public. This book explains how to understand and recognize parental alienation, which is a form of child abuse that is occurring worldwide. Parental alienation occurs when a parent, motivated by revenge or defiance, manipulates a child to reject or hate the other parent. The intention of the alienating parent is to prevent, hinder, or destroy the child’s links with the other parent. The author of the book, Gladys Monge, reflects on her personal experience when she lost two sons through divorce and her struggle in the courts. Gladys Monge is a survivor of parental alienation.
The High-Conflict Custody Battle: Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation
Amy J. L. Baker, Michael Bone, Brian Ludmer | English, 2014
In The High-Conflict Custody Battle, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people like you who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle. If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations, and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.
Bekrast
Marieke Lips | Dutch, 2014
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 of sadness. Subsequently, Lisanne’s quest for herself results in finding an adult woman without pushing her youthful experiences out of her mind.
Co-parenting with a Toxic Ex: What to Do When Your Ex-Spouse Tries to Turn the Kids Against You
Amy J. L. Baker, Paul R. Fine | English, 2014
There’s no question about it: your children are the most important thing in your life. But if you have gone through a messy divorce, your relationship with your children may become strained if you have to deal with a toxic ex. Your ex may bad-mouth you in front of the kids, accuse you of being a bad parent, and even attempt to replace you in the children’s lives with a new partner. As a result, your children may become confused, conflicted, angry, anxious, or depressed—and you may feel powerless.
In Co-parenting with a Toxic Ex, a nationally recognized parenting expert offers you a positive parenting approach to dealing with a hostile ex-spouse. You’ll learn to avoid the most common mistakes of coparenting, how to avoid “parental alienation syndrome,” and effective techniques for talking to your children in a way that fosters open and honest response. In addition, you’ll learn how to protect your children from painful loyalty conflicts between you and your ex-spouse.
Divorce is often painful, especially if your ex habitually tries to undermine your relationship with your children. But with the right tools you can protect your kids and make your relationship with them stronger than ever. This book can show you how.
Surviving Parental Alienation: A Journey of Hope and Healing
Amy J. L. Baker, Paul R. Fine | English, 2014
Half of all marriages end, and, when they do, most parents hope to achieve a “good divorce” in which they can amicably raise their children with their former spouse. Unfortunately, about 20% of divorces are high-conflict, involving frequent visits to court, allegations of abuse, and chronic disagreements regarding parenting schedules. In response to this conflict, some children become aligned with one parent against the other – even a parent who has done nothing to warrant the hostile rejection of their formerly loving children. These “targeted” parents suffer from the loss of time with their children, the pain of watching their children become distant, even cruel, and the uncertainty of not knowing if and when their children will come back to them. These parents are on a painful journey with an uncertain outcome. Surviving Parental Alienation fills the tremendous need for concrete help for these parents. Surviving Parental Alienation provides true stories and information about parents who have reconnected with their lost and stolen children, and offers better insight and understanding into what exactly parental alienation is and how to handle it.
Abuse & Betrayal: The Cautionary True Story of Divorce, Mistakes, Lies and Legal Abuse
Richard Joseph | English, 2014
Abuse & Betrayal is author Richard Joseph’s deeply personal autobiographical account of his experiences with marriage, divorce, and the effects of his ex-wife’s behavior. Sure to strike a chord with anyone who has ever been in a dysfunctional relationship or divorce situation, it follows the couple from happy beginnings to their tumultuous divorce, and describes the abuse and alienation Richard faced during and after the marriage.
Richard’s narration touches upon sensitive topics such as the emergence of his ex-wife’s narcissistic personality, her obsession with status, and the inappropriate behavior she exhibited. But the most raw and exposed of his passages are those dedicated to describing his ex-wife’s attempts at alienating him from his daughters, which makes Abuse & Betrayal a story not just about Richard’s divorce, but also about his feelings and efforts toward parenting and fatherhood.
Filling a void in the media market, Abuse & Betrayal delivers a story uniquely told from the male perspective and draws attention to important issues that too often get swept under the rug. Through Richard’s encounters with lawyers, the courts, and prison, it raises questions about the fairness of the divorce process in our country and speaks to the biases in the legal and judicial systems.
Broken Lives Broken Minds
Pamela Roche, Maggie Allen | English, 2014
This is about parental abduction and parental alienation (PAS). It was written to expose the flaws and loopholes in the Hague Convention and the dramatic rise in parental abduction in the last 10 years. This book exposes the phenomenon of PAS which is too poorly recognized in the family courts today. It is devastating the lives of young children and target parents. These effects often are long-term on the children which extends into adulthood. It is about the injustices that are endemic in the family law system which involves judges, lawyers, psychologists, and court-appointed therapists. It shows how the legal system is fundamentally flawed, and the costs of all this are crippling.
Madre sin Hijos, Hijos sin Madre
Gladys Monge | Spanish, 2013
The concept of parental alienation has often been misunderstood. It continues to be necessary to educate mental health professionals, legal practitioners, and the general public about parental alienation, which is a great hardship for many children, teenagers, and their parents. Gladys Monge advocates in Puerto Rico on behalf of families that have been affected by parental alienation. Her book, Madre sin Hijos, Hijos sin Madre, will help readers who want to learn about this important topic.
Parental Alienation: The Handbook for Mental Health and Legal Professionals
Demosthenes Lorandos, William Bernet, S. Richard Sauber | English, 2013
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 citations to case precedent, ready access to state or province specific legal citations spanning thirty-five years of parental alienation cases is provided here for the first time in one place.
Barnets rätt till familjeliv: 25 svenska fallstudier av föräldraalienation
Lena Hellblom Sjögren | Swedish, 2013
The name of the book is The Child’s Right to Family Life. If a child is separated from a parent whom the child was attached to and loved, then the child’s psychological and emotional development, as well as the child’s health, is destroyed. It is a mental abuse situation, which is not identified as such by the child. The child has to ally himself to the parent whom the child depends on, and reject the other parent. In many cases, the alienating parent gets support both from social authorities and from the legal system. The child incorporates an unfounded and false belief about the other parent and starts joining the condemnation. The child demonstrates the acquired aversion by refusing all kinds of contact, often also with the grandparents on the rejected parents’ side. This process, parental alienation, is not unusual in severe custody conflicts. It violates the child’s legal and human right to family life. Twenty-five Swedish cases of sever parental alienation are presented.
The Equal Parent Presumption: Social Justice in the Legal Determination of Parenting After Divorce
Edward Kruk | English, 2013
In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the “best interests of the child” has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is “best” and because of the bias in favor of the child’s residing in one “primary residence.” In response, a consensus is beginning to emerge that it is vitally important that children maintain meaningful relationships with both parents after divorce. In The Equal Parenting Presumption, Edward Kruk proposes a child-focused approach based on a standard that considers the best interests of the child from the perspective of the child and a responsibility-to-needs orientation to social justice for children and families. Challenging previous research and received ideas, Kruk presents an evidence-based framework of equal parental responsibility as the most effective means of ensuring the protection of family relationships following divorce, and shielding children from ongoing parental conflict and family violence.
Programa de Intervención para Victimas de Interferencias Parentales
Asunción Tejedor Huerta | Spanish, 2013
This program provides measures and support material for children, victimized by parental alienation, and their parents in order to facilitate communication and expression between them and ultimately remedy the adverse consequences of parental alienation. Some content includes information that raises awareness to parents about how their conflicts psychologically and behaviorally stunt their children, as well as methods to improve their parenting strategies in order to prevent further damages on the children.
Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity
Jack C. Westman M.D. | English, 2013
Our government is forced to become involved in struggling families and their adult offspring at the cost of 23% of state and 45% of county expenditures that flow largely from our federal income taxes. One-third of our children and youth are failing in some aspect of their lives. The United States is at the top of the list of developed nations in child abuse and neglect and the bottom in educational achievement. Five children die every day from abuse. Three million referrals are made to child protective services every year. Parents who raise a productive citizen contribute $1.4 million to our economy. Parents who abuse and/or neglect a child who becomes a criminal or welfare dependent cost our economy $2.8 million. Without concerted action, every American taxpayer will continue to pay for these consequences. The framework for action is in Parent Power: The Key to America’s Prosperity. For humanitarian and financial reasons, and for our nation’s prosperity, we must remove government from family lives by preventing the formation of, and reducing the number of, struggling families in the United States. We can do this by ensuring that every newborn baby has an opportunity to succeed in life by limiting the custody of newborn babies to persons who are not under the custody of others themselves. Only by fulfilling the right of all newborn babies to have competent parents will the United States ensure its prosperity.
Safe Kids, Smart Parents: What Parents Need to Know to Keep Their Children Safe
Rebecca Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey | English, 2013
Leading family psychologist, Rebecca Bailey, tells parents how to keep their children safe in this accessible, must-have guidebook. Whether their children are toddlers or teens, six years old or sixteen, whether they live in a rural town, suburb, or a bustling city, all parents worry about threats—from cyber-bullying to exploitation and abduction. What should they tell their children and when? What practical steps can they take to reduce the risks and keep their kids safe? Dr. Rebecca Bailey, with the assistance of her sister and registered nurse, Elizabeth Bailey, gives easily understood, easily followed answers. Safe Kids, Smart Parents builds on Dr. Bailey’s years of experience as a family psychologist helping real families deal with real situations. From abduction to abuse, Bailey explains how parents can speak to their kids about troubling topics while building their self-esteem and teaching them how to protect themselves. A smart, comprehensive, and easy-to-read resource, Safe Kids, Smart Parents is the most important book a parent can own.
Broken Family Bonds: Poems and Stories from Victims of Parental Alienation
Joan Kloth-Zanard | English, 2013
This book provides a collection of poems and stories written by real victims of parental alienation that show the psychological pain and damage caused by parental alienation.
Guía práctica de actuación ante el impedimento de contacto con los hijos
José Maria Bouza | Spanish, 2013
The purpose of this book — Practical Guide of Action Before the Impediment of Contact with Children — is to provide concepts that allow a divorced parent with minor children, without experience in family litigation, to be placed within the unknown world of the legal and social, to be linked with the children. This book shows how to participate actively in the defense of your rights and those of your children, know your obligations, know how to bond with lawyers, psychologists, and judicial officials, and recognize the environment with which you will have to deal for a long time.
Síndrome de alienación parental
Jose Manuel Aguilar | Spanish, 2013
This book describes how professionals handle parental alienation technically and analytically. It reveals the perverse communication strategies and emotional blackmail used by one parent to alienate the child from the other parent; as a result, professionals and parents alike can exercise therapeutic methods to fight against the effects of parental alienation.