Differential Diagnosis of Parental Alienation

Alienated children deserve to be designated as a special population and served by experts in each of attachment, personality disorders, family systems, decompensation into persecutory delusion, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and physical abuse.

Dr. Childress has provided a differential diagnosis for severe parental alienation with his extended diagnostic checklist.

For additional explanation refer to his book "Foundations," this summary of Foundations, this summary of pathogenic parenting, and these comments about differential diagnosis .

Another differential diagnosis tool is the PARQ, which is a self-report to measure splitting. It differentiates between alienation and estrangement.

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