European Journal of Parental Alienation Practice — Issue 2

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We are delighted to welcome you to the second issue of the European Journal of Parental Alienation Practice. This issue has several papers of interest for our readers from authors across the globe.

First Ms Devyn Mullins, an Adjunct Professor, College of Journalism and Communications Research Associate, Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine University of Florida provides her paper titled “Y ou don’t love Me, An Analytic Autoethnography of Family Artifacts Illustrating Parental Alienation” (PA) where, this theoretically grounded study sheds light on family system’s communication patterns and narratives that shape the realities of children and parents that experience PA while enhancing scholarly knowledge of PA and informing resources for professionals.

Secondly, Systemic Family Psychotherapist Brian O Sullivan based in Ireland provides a summary of research findings titled “The Lived Experiences of Alienated Parents in Ireland, An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis”.

Thirdly, O’Sullivan, Azzopardi, Gibson & Gately based in Ireland and Malta invite you to consider their submission to the Irish Department of Justice’s public consultation on Parental Alienation. The Department published many submissions from various agencies but chose not to include this submission at the conclusion of their process. Therefore, it is being published in this issue of EJPAP for your review.

Fourthly, Prof Ivan Summit based in Malta invites you to consider his paper titled “Lawyer’s Ethics in Parental Alienation cases where he proposes a variety of options for legal professionals in this regard”.

Fithly, from Sweden Sverker Sikström, Meland and Hellblom invite you to consider their paper titled “The Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) – Child; validated on a general population in Sweden. This paper examines the feasibility and variability of a Swedish translation of the short form of the PARQ instrument on a young general population aged 9-14 years.