Then, on the other hand, as
alienated parents describe; some ex-spouses do not care.
Some alienated parents describe the feeling being similar to that of grief when a close friend or family member dies.
Not exact matches
The book
describes PAS as a form of emotional abuse, explains the strategies that
alienating parents use, compares
alienating parents to cult leaders, identifies eleven catalysts that can trigger the realization that one has been a child victim of PAS, and
describes the long - term effects of PAS.
Based on interviews with 40 adults who believe that — when they were children — they were turned against one
parent by the other, «Adult children of parental alienation syndrome,»
describes the experience of being an
alienated child from the inside and explains how it is possible that a child can reject one
parent in order to please the other.
Does the child mirror the allied
parent's words when
describing the
alienated parent?
Parental Alienation Syndrome symptoms
describe the child's behaviours and attitude towards the targeted
parent after the child has been effectively programmed and severely
alienated from the targeted
parent.
The
alienated child is
described by Kelly and Johnston (2001) as one who expresses disproportionately negative behavior about the
alienated parent that is not consistent with his or her actual experience.
If the motivating factors are unconscious or subconscious, the
alienating parent may not feel and / or may not be aware of the feelings and emotions
described above.
As
described under CAPRD, «parental
alienating behaviors» are included such as badmouthing a
parent to a child or brainwashing them to believe about the «horrible and untrue» things about the other
parent.
The first related to the issue of what is
described as
parent alienation syndrome, wherein one
parent attempts to
alienate the child as against the other
parent.
I received a copy of this proposal, which briefly
described parental alienation as follows: The essential feature of parental alienation is that a child — usually one whose
parents are engaged in a hostile divorce — allies himself or herself strongly with one
parent (the preferred
parent) and rejects a relationship with the other
parent (the
alienated parent) without legitimate justification.
We have read many a mis - guided and ill informed custody evaluation where the seriously enmeshed relationship between the
alienated child and the
alienating parent is
described as being «very close» implying that this kind of closeness is healthy.
In addition, as Warshak has written, although the DSM - V has no specific diagnosis of «parental alienation,» the DSM - V includes, under the heading «Relational Problems» and the sub-heading «Problems Related to Family Upbringing,» two diagnostic categories that
describe children who are irrationally
alienated from a
parent.
Intervention techniques
described by Johnston, Walters, and Friedlander (2001) place an emphasis on working with the entire family, and understanding that the primary goal of therapy is to reconstruct the
alienated child's perspective of the rejected
parent.
For this reason, there was a palpable sigh of relief that could be felt as the participants
described with candor the shortcomings of the
alienating parent, including the reality that this person had put his / her own needs above the needs of his / her own children.
In the case of Parental Alienation, this concept is useful in that it
describes a favorite modus operandi that the
alienating parent uses to vilify the targeted
parent.
Distraught dads, moms and grandparents have sent to me many emails
describing how their formerly good relationship with their child was ruined by an
alienating parent.
Gregory Lester, Ph.D.,
describes possible causes that can account for the severity of the psychological disturbance seen in severely
alienating parents.
For example, Weitzman (2004)
describes a one - way - mirror - based protocol for reuniting children with an estranged /
alienated parent.
In the Baker and Darnall study, 68
parents who believed that their children were severely
alienated from them
described their children along several dimensions including the eight components of PAS.
Next, the article
describes an innovative educational and experiential program, Family Bridges: A Workshop for Troubled and
Alienated Parent - Child Relationships, that draws on social science research to help severely and unreasonably alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a parent they claim to hate
Alienated Parent - Child Relationships, that draws on social science research to help severely and unreasonably alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a parent they claim to hate or
Parent - Child Relationships, that draws on social science research to help severely and unreasonably
alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a parent they claim to hate
alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a
parent they claim to hate or
parent they claim to hate or fear.