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End Coercive Control USA’s Resources page provides a curated collection of coercive control resources for professionals, organizations, and survivors. Access educational materials, research, and tools to help identify, understand, and address coercive control and domestic abuse. Whether you’re an advocate, survivor, or legal professional, these resources support awareness, prevention, and intervention efforts to end coercive control.

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ECCUSA does not officially endorse any of the following resources, nor do we agree 100% with everything contained within them. Please use your own discretion in selecting and utilizing them. These are not paid links. (Updated March 4, 2025)

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Coercive Control, Domestic Abuse & Family Court Research:

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  • Hague Mothers: Academic Research Articles on Domestic Abuse, Coercive Control, Protective Parenting, Parental Alienation, Legislation & Family Court

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COERCIVE CONTROL VIDEOS

Kate Amber MSc: The PsychoSocial Quicksand Model® of Coercive Control – Video One

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EXPERTS & COLLEAGUE VIDEOS

NSW Government Coercive Control Video

Evan Stark on the Coercive Control of Children:

Jackson Katz: Violence against women — it’s a men’s issue

Jim Kwik: Wipe out negative thoughts and limiting beliefs

Emma Katz on the Coercive Control & Domestic Abuse:

Christine Cocchiola: Understanding Coercive Control

Christine Cocchiola: Understanding Coercive Control

Dr. George Simon on Understanding Manipulation:

The Psychopath Next Door:

COERCIVE CONTROL & DOMESTIC ABUSE RESEARCH

“Abuse of the term “Parental Alienation” and of similar concepts and terms invoked to deny child custody to the mother and grant it to a father accused of domestic violence in a manner that totally disregards the possible risks for the child must be discouraged. Accusations of parental alienation by abusive fathers against mothers must be considered as a continuation of power and control by state agencies and actors, including those deciding on child custody.”

Family Court & Custody

Adverse Childhood Experiences, False Allegations, & Custody Research

SAFE & TOGETHER INSTITUTE: Ensuring The Voice Of The Child Is Heard, And Child’s Best Interests Are Considered In Domestic Abuse Cases
MEIER ET AL. (2019): Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations
JOAN MEIER (2020): U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show?
JOAN MEIER (2009): A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation
ELENA ANDREOPOULOS & ALISON WEXLER (2022): The “solution” to parental alienation: A critique of the turning points and overcoming barriers reunification programs
MADELYN MILCHMAN,ROBERT GEFFNER, & JOAN MEIER: Ideology and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason In Some Parental Alienation Literature and Advocacy: A Critique
STEPHANIE DALLAM & JOYANNA SILBERG (2016): Recommended treatments for “parental alienation syndrome” (PAS) may cause children foreseeable and lasting psychological harm
SAUNDERS, FALLER & TOLMAN (2012): Child Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations: Their Relationship to Evaluator Demographics, Background, Domestic Violence Knowledge and Custody/Visitation Recommendations
ACE STUDY: Research on Adverse Childhood Experiences reveals long-term detrimental physical health impacts of abuse and neglect on children. This study provides proof that placing children into the custody of abusers and/or coercive controllers increases children’s risk for mental and physical health problems, addictions and even reduced lifespan.
ACE RESOURCES & TALKING POINTS
CDC: Essentials for Parenting Teens
EMMA KATZ (2019): Coercive Control, Domestic Violence, and a Five-Factor Framework: Five Factors That Influence Closeness, Distance, and Strain in Mother–Child Relationships
LISA ARONSON-FONTES (2005): Child Abuse and Culture
CHAMPION (2022): Coercion in families and child resistance to contact with a parent after family separation

Most experts in domestic abuse and/or coercive control are either professionally educated experts or experts with lived experience. I have been fortunate (and unfortunate) to have had coercive control educational expertise and lived experience expertise in coercive control, with lived experience in several areas where coercive control is prevalent. This gives me a unique and well-rounded perspective on the relationships between trauma, abuse, addiction, personality disorders, parenting, group dynamics and coercive control. These connections are on the cutting edge of mental health, domestic abuse, coercive control, trauma-informed care and neuroscience.

Thought Reform

Tactics of Thought Reform & Coercive Control

ROBERT LIFTON: Thought Reform & The Psychology of Totalism
ALBERT BIDERMAN: Biderman’s Chart of Coercion
STEVE HASSAN: The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control: Undue Influence, Thought Reform, Brainwashing, Mind Control, Trafficking and The Law
JANJA LALICH: Cults & Coercion
MARGARET SINGER & MARSHA ADDIS: Cults, Coercion & Cotumely
ROD DUBROW-MARSHALL: Cult Consequences
GERRETTE BUGLION: An Everyday Cult
RYAN & LUKE HART: Remembered Forever
NEIL VAN LEEUWEN: Sleights of mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains.
GILLIE JENKINSON PHD: Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse: A Workbook for Recovery and Growth
LISA ARONSON-FONTES: Abuse that’s hard to recognize: Coercive Control

Coercive Control

Coercive Control & Domestic Abuse

DELGARNO ET AL: ‘Swim, swim and die at the beach’: family court and perpetrator induced trauma (CPIT) experiences of mothers in Brazil 2024
DELGARNO ET AL: Health-related experiences of family court and domestic abuse in England: A looming public health crisis 2024
DELGARNO ET AL: ‘Let’s excuse abusive men from abusing and enable sexual abuse’: child sexual abuse investigations in England’s private family courts 2024
DR EMMA KATZ: Domestically Violent Men Describe the Benefits of Abusing Women and Children
SUSAN SCHECHTER: Women and Male Violence: The Visions and Struggles of The Battered Women’s Movement
DR EMMA KATZ: Domestically Abusive Men Describe WHY They Criticize Women’s Mothering
EVAN STARK: Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
DR EMMA KATZ: Why Coercive Control Gets Worse During Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding
LISA ARONSON-FONTES: Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
EMMA KATZ: Coercive Control in Childrens’ and Mothers’ Lives
JANE MOCKTON-SMITH: In Control – Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
SANDRA BROWN & JENNIFER YOUNG: Women Who Love Psychopaths
DR EMMA KATZ: The REASON BEHIND Abusive Men’s Regime of Control
GEORGE SIMON: In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: International Responses to Economic Abuse
CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP SYSTEMS:
LOHMANN ET AL: The Trauma and Mental Health Impacts of Coercive Control: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2023