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Five types of psychological maltreatment are adapted for PAS and described below:

1) Rejecting - The child’s legitimate need for a relationship with both parents is rejected. The child has reason to fear rejection and abandonment by the alienating parent if positive feelings are expressed about the other parent and the people and activities associated with that parent.

2) Terrorizing - The child is bullied or verbally assaulted into being terrified of the target parent. The child is psychologically brutalized into fearing contact with the target parent and retribution by the alienating parent for any positive feelings the child might have for the other parent. Psychological abuse of this type may be accompanied by physical abuse.


3) Ignoring - The parent is emotionally unavailable to the child, leading to feelings of neglect and abandonment. Divorced parents may selectively withhold love and attention from the child, a subtler form of rejecting which shapes the child’s behavior.


4) Isolating - The parent isolates the child from normal opportunities for social relations. In PAS, the child is prevented from participating in normal social interactions with the target parent and relatives and friends on that side of the family. In severe PAS, social isolation of the child sometimes extends beyond the target parent to any social contacts which might foster autonomy and independence.


5) Corrupting - The child is missocialized and reinforced by the alienating parent for lying, manipulation, aggression toward others or behavior which is self destructive. In PAS with false allegations of abuse, the child is also corrupted by repeated involvement in discussions of deviant sexuality regarding the target parent or other family and friends associated with that parent. In some cases of severe PAS, the alienating parent trains the child to be an agent of aggression against the target parent, with the child actively participating in deceits and manipulations for the purpose of harassing and persecuting the target parent. This is particularly likely to occur in what Turkat called Divorce Related Malicious Parent Syndrome.


1. Garbarino J, Guttmann E, Seeley JW: The Psychologically Battered Child: Strategies for Identification,

Assessment, and Intervention. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1986

2. Garbarino J, Stott FM: What Children Can Tell Us: Eliciting Interpreting, and Evaluating Critical Information from Children. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992

3. Turkat ID: Child visitation interference in divorce. Clinical Psychology Review 1994

4. Turkat a: Divorce related malicious mother syndrome. Journal of Family Violence 1995

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