Rejecting the rejection of parental alienation: Comment on Mercer (2021)

This article is a response to comments by Mercer (2021), who criticized Bernet, Gregory, Rohner, and Reay (2020) regarding their research on parental alienation and the use of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ). Here we respond to Mercer’s claims that the work of Bernet et al. is...

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Published inJournal of family trauma, child custody & child development (Print) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 210 - 216
Main Authors Bernet, William, Rohner, Ronald P., Reay, Kathleen M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Ltd 02.08.2021
Subjects
Adolescents
Alienation
Child abuse & neglect
Parent-child relations
Parental acceptance
Parents & parenting
Psychological splitting
Psychological theories
Social acceptance
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Summary:This article is a response to comments by Mercer (2021), who criticized Bernet, Gregory, Rohner, and Reay (2020) regarding their research on parental alienation and the use of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ). Here we respond to Mercer’s claims that the work of Bernet et al. is pseudoscience, that parental alienation theory involves false assumptions, that the extreme degree of psychological splitting observed by Bernet et al. is age-appropriate for adolescents, and that conclusions drawn by Bernet et al. are exaggerated and misstated.
ISSN:2690-4586
2690-4594
DOI:10.1080/26904586.2020.1856752