Parental Alienation in High Conflict Custody Disputes

A Casebook of Forensic Psychological Evaluation

Steven P. Lindenberg

• Publisher: Charles C Thomas
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9780398095086
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

The nine cases in this volume have been selected from the author's almost 50 years of practice precisely because they resist easy categorization. They have been arranged in order of increasing clinical complexity, beginning with foundational presentations of parental alienation dynamics and progressing through cases involving false allegations, appellate review, Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA), dual parental psychopathology, cross-cultural identity, second-opinion methodology, severe psychiatric impairment in a multicultural context, court-ordered reunification therapy, and culminating in a full presentation of the Lindenberg Model for Outpatient Reunification Therapy. Together, they form a curriculum in forensic practice—one grounded not in abstract principle but in the lived complexity of real families. Two original contributions to the field have been included. First, the Lindenberg-Vesell Parental Alienation Survey© (L-V PAS©) is a structured non-standardized questionnaire for the quantitative assessment of alienating behaviors employed across multiple case chapters. Second is the Lindenberg Model for Outpatient Reunification Therapy, a two-phase, court-coordinated intervention protocol grounded in the empirical literature on PA. Together, these contributions position this casebook not merely as a teaching text but as a clinical resource with direct practical utility for practitioners working at the intersection of psychology and family law. The book will be of interest to advanced graduate students, licensed clinicians seeking continuing education, attorneys seeking to understand forensic psychological methodology, and experienced forensic practitioners comparing methodological approaches.

Table of contents

• PARENTAL ALIENATION IN
• PARENTAL ALIENATION IN
• Chapter 1 PARENTAL ALIENATION IN HIGH-CONFLICT CUSTODY DISPUTES
• Chapter 2 PARENTAL MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION IN HIGH-CONFLICT CUSTODY PROCEEDINGS
• Chapter 3 PARENTAL ALIENATION ALLEGATION UNSUPPORTED BY CHILD, EVEN THOUGH BOTH PARENTS DEMONSTRATED ALIENATION ATTRIBUTES:
• Chapter 4 WHEN THE EVALUATOR GETS IT RIGHT
• Chapter 5 PARENTAL ALIENATION AND PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY IN HIGH-CONFLICT CHILD CUSTODY DISPUTES:
• Chapter 6 BIRACIAL IDENTITY, CROSS-CULTURAL PARENTING AND CHILD BEST INTERESTS
• Chapter 7 SECOND-OPINION PARENTAL ALIENATION ASSESSMENT IN A SOUTH ASIAN ARRANGED-MARRIAGE CUSTODY DISPUTE
• Chapter 8 PARENTAL ALIENATION, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND MULTICULTURAL DYNAMICS IN A HIGH-CONFLICT CUSTODY CASE
• Chapter 9 REUNIFICATION THERAPY IN
• Chapter 10 THE LINDENBERG MODEL FOR OUTPATIENT REUNIFICATION THERAPY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX