Parent alienation strategies: A qualitative study of adults who experienced parental alienation as a child.
Parent alienation strategies: A qualitative study of adults who experienced parental alienation as a child.
Not exact matches
We tell our clients who believe they may be the targeted
parent to never give up and we will develop a
strategy to get experts and one judge involved in the case early on so the issue remains at the forefront of the court so it can ideally be resolved at a stage where
alienation never fully develops or if it has that the
alienation is stopped and the damaging symptoms reversed so the child has a healthy relationship with both
parents.
Parental
alienation is the term used to describe the overall problem of children being encouraged by one
parent — the favored
parent — to unjustly reject the other
parent — the targeted
parent The specific behaviors that they engage in are referred to as parental
alienation strategies.
Research has established that children exposed to the 17 primary parental
alienation strategies and those who become alienated suffer in the long run, as do their
parents.
Taken together these parental
alienation strategies foster conflict and psychological distance between the child and the targeted
parent.
Positive and mindful
parenting approaches are presented, tailored to each of these parental
alienation strategies.
There are seventeen primary parental
alienation strategies that have been identified through research studies with adults who were alienated as children and with targeted
parents.
Alienating
parents display
alienation behaviors and / or employ
alienation strategies.
In her overview, Amy Baker gives a standard view of Parental
Alienation: The Alienating
Parent typically uses 17
strategies to turn their child against the Targeted
Parent.
Research has established that children exposed to the 17 primary parental
alienation strategies and those who become alienated suffer in the long run, as do their
parents.
Positive and mindful
parenting approaches are presented, tailored to each of these parental
alienation strategies.
Taken together these parental
alienation strategies foster conflict and psychological distance between the child and the targeted
parent.
The 17 primary parental
alienation strategies 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 targeted
parent's trust; and (5) undermining the authority of the targeted
parent.
There are seventeen primary parental
alienation strategies that have been identified through research studies with adults who were alienated as children and with targeted
parents.
As stated, parental
alienation is a «set of
strategies» used by one
parent to undermine the relationship between the children and the other
parent.
Parental
alienation is the term used to describe the overall problem of children being encouraged by one
parent — the favored
parent — to unjustly reject the other
parent — the targeted
parent The specific behaviors that they engage in are referred to as parental
alienation strategies.
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strategies needed to move you through your divorce and beyond the
parent alienation that may be occurring.
In cases of severe parental
alienation the resident
parent will be dictating and controlling the plans and
strategies of services involved, without them even realising.
«Testimony by an expert knowledgeable about the
strategies that
parents use to promulgate and support
alienation, the extent to which children can be manipulated to reject and denigrate a
parent, the extent to which children are suggestible, the mechanics of stereotype induction, and the psychological damage associated with involving children in parental hostilities, may assist the court in determining the proper amount of weight to give a child's explicitly stated preferences and statements regarding each
parent.
They maintain that the concept of parental
alienation is a legal
strategy used by abusive
parents to deflect blame for their children's fear and hatred of them.
As Amy Baker writes, parental
alienation involves a set of
strategies, including bad - mouthing the other
parent, limiting contact with that
parent, erasing the other
parent from the life and mind of the child (forbidding discussion and pictures of the other
parent), forcing the child to reject the other
parent, creating the impression that the other
parent is dangerous, forcing the child to choose between the
parents by means of threats of withdrawal of affection, and belittling and limiting contact with the extended family of the targeted
parent.
These
parents employ a range of
strategies, known as parental
alienation, in order to foster the child's rejection of the other
parent.
(Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., author of When
Parents Hurt: Compassionate
Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Get Along) Surviving Parental
Alienation is a work that will help reduce the emotional isolation that an alienated
parent feels.
First, the
strategies that the alienating
parents used to effectuate the
alienation are emotionally abusive in and of themselves.
Thus,
parents who believe that they are the targets of parental
alienation should assume that the alienating
parent is utilizing an array of
strategies.
This line of thinking is supported by a study conducted by Baker and Darnall (2006) in which targeted
parents were surveyed regarding the
strategies that they believe the other
parent was using in the service of parental
alienation.
The working definition that I use is that parental
alienation is a set of
strategies that a
parent uses to try to effectuate a child's rejection of the other
parent who I refer to as the «targeted
parent».