psychology this dynamic is commonly referred to as parental alienation. Developmental psychologist Amy Baker notes seventeen primary parental alienation strategies that have been identified through research studies, which fall into five general categories: (1) poisonous messages to the child about the targeted parent in which he or she is portrayed as unloving, unsafe, and unavailable; (2) limiting contact and communication between the child and the targeted parent; (3) erasing and replacing the targeted parent in the heart and mind of the child; (4) encouraging the child to betray the
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