An emotional and psychological disturbance in which children engage in exaggerated and unjustified denigration and criticism of a parent is:.a. divorce adjustment disorder b. divorce fault syndrome.
c. parental alienation (PA).
d. child retaliation syndrome (CRS).

The correct answer is C.

Explanation:

Parental Alienation (PA) is a set of symptoms that occurs in children when a parent, through different strategies, transforms the children's consciousness in order to hinder or destroy their ties with the other parent, that is, the term refers to behavior carried out by the father or mother who keeps the son or daughter in his or her custody and performs acts of manipulation so that the minor may hate, fear or unjustifiably reject the father who does not have legal custody.