Doing some research today and stumbled upon this description of Parental Alienation as well.
“PAS Should be Considered When a Child Consistently, and Without Reason:
- Shuns the parent in question
- Denigrates, belittles, or disparages the parent
- Appears unable to distinguish lies from the truth in regards to the parent
- Unjustly hates the parent
- Defames the parent with invented stories and lies
- Uses inappropriate language to deride the parent in public
- Views the parent as singularly bad; sees nothing good in the parent in question
- Shows extreme resistence to seeing or maintaining contact with the parent
http://singleparents.about.com/od/legalissues/a/alienation_pas.htm
Related articles
- Parent-Child Reunification After Alienation (psychologytoday.com)
- The Risk Factors Associated with the Practice of Parental Alienation (towardchange.wordpress.com)