Whilst an attempt has been made to group the resources, they are helpful to anyone wishing to find out more about the emotional cutoff that can occur when a child is manipulated to reject a normal range parent.
General
- Overview of Emotional Cutoff After Parental Separation (Printable 4 page leaflet)
- Emotional Cutoff in Context of Parental Separation
- Early Signs a Child is at Risk of an Emotional Cutoff and Action Required
- Diagnostic Signs a Child has Been Manipulated to Reject a Parent
- Lifelong Impacts on Children of Family Separation
- Emotional cutoff and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Parents and Family Members
- Top Tips for Parents Who Are Separated by the Family Justice Young People’s Board (downloads)
- Separated Parents Information Programme
- Dealing With Conflict
- Beyond the High Road: Responding to 17 Parental Alienation Strategies without Compromising Your Morals or Harming Your Child [2008] by Amy J.L. Baker Ph.D and Paul R. Fine LCSW
- A Survival Guide to Parental Alienation
- Sources of Support
- Books to Help Children with Family Break Up
Professionals
Organisations in General
Schools
- Separated Parent Policy – free template for schools to use
- Parental responsibility: guide for schools and local authorities – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Psychology, Assessment and Treatment
- Childhood Psychological Abuse is as Harmful to Victims as Sexual or Physical Abuse
- Strategic Family Systems Intervention for AB-PA: Contingent Visitation Schedule – includes diagnostic indicators for families where an emotional cutoff has occurred as a result of psychological manipulation
- Video: Attachment Based “Parental Alienation”
- Assessing Parenting – Children’s Response to Problematic Parenting
- Court Consideration of Adolescent Wishes – Dr. Craig Childress
- Dr Craig Childress Website
- Raising Parents Attachment, representation and treatment
- Family Relations Institute – Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaption
- Assessing Attachment for Family Court Decision Making
- Parental Alienation or Justifiable Estrangement? Assessing a Child’s Resistance to a Parent in the UK
- An Objective Measure of Splitting in Parental Alienation: The Parental Acceptance–Rejection Questionnaire
- Measuring the Difference Between Parental Alienation and Parental Estrangement: The PARQ-Gap
- Family Healing Strategies for Hope and Understanding
- Strategic Family Therapy
- The Body Keeps The Score Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
- Solutions to Restore Child/Parent relationships
Research and Surveys
- Young People and Family Separation in Scotland Survey 2020
- The UK Parental Alienation Study 2020
- Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences [2019] by Public Health Wales
- Prevalence of parental alienation drawn from a representative poll
- Parents Acting Badly: How Institutions and Societies Promote the Alienation of Children from Their Loving Families
- Powerless to Parent; Powerless to Protect: The Experiences of Alienated Parents in the UK
- Intractable Contact Disputes – The Extreme Unreliability of Children’s Ascertainable Wishes and Feelings
- False Allegations of Child Abuse in Contested Family Law Cases: The Implications for Psychological Practice
- Men and Suicide Why its a Social Issue by the Samaritan
- New approaches to divorce with children: A problem of public health
Law
Statistics
- Family Court Statistics Quarterly – GOV.UK
- Requests under Freedom of Information Act (FOI)
- Suicides in the UK: 2018 Registrations
- Statistics from Other Sources
Other
- Sir James Munby Addresses the Families Need Fathers 2017 Annual Conference
- Video: Erasing Family – provides witness to the voice of children who were manipulated to reject a normal range parent.
- Video: Erasing Dad
- Video: Geldof on Fathers
- Video: The ‘Dad’ Documentary
- Real Life Stories – Children Who Have Been Let Down
