Zoe Rathus is affiliated informally with other scholars and practitioners researching the issue of the use of parental alienation in a range of countries. She has a forthcoming article in a Special ...

The alienation hypothesis sees denigration as distancing children from the parent who is denigrated, while drawing them closer to the parent who does the denigrating. In contrast, research on ...

The academic study and practical treatment of domestic abuse are evolving. Historically, researchers and support workers have tended to adopt the view that domestic abuse is inherently gendered, with ...