Medical–Legal and Psychosocial Considerations on Parental Alienation as a Form of Child Abuse: A Brief Review

Autor: Oana-Maria Isailă, Sorin Hostiuc
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Healthcare, Vol 10, Iss 6, p 1134 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 10061134
2227-9032
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10061134
Popis: Parental alienation, an entity situated at the limit of psychiatry, sociology, and justice, still represents a controversial concept despite the legal dispositions that take it into account. The scope of this paper is to consider the relationship between parent and child, and child abuse from a psychosocial perspective, as well as to depict parental alienation, considered a form of child abuse, without omitting contradictory arguments which are also based on prudence in the minor’s interest, turning the attention to parental estrangement. Although parental alienation is not a psychiatric diagnosis per se and neither is parental estrangement, recognizing the difference between them is vital to adequately manage the situation at the time of establishing custody.
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