Anyone's
alienating behaviors which influence a child to resist contact with one parent is a form of emotional child abuse — even if it is unintentional — and needs to be treated and the child protected.
Not exact matches
This is termed «naïve» alienation,
which means they often are not aware they are engaging in harmful
behavior and with a little coaching can understand the consequences and cease the
alienating.
The communications to the child of the regard with
which the other parent is held is the key to detecting
alienating behavior.
Which you imagine to be so because, ipso facto, it must be there because there are these symptoms which we can identify because there is a campaign of programming by an alienating parent and that's how we differentiate them from otherwise explainable behavior... and we know there's a campaign by an alienating parent because there are these symptoms there... Gee... not exactly comparable to testing for the presence of the pneumococci bacteria, or a defective chromo
Which you imagine to be so because, ipso facto, it must be there because there are these symptoms
which we can identify because there is a campaign of programming by an alienating parent and that's how we differentiate them from otherwise explainable behavior... and we know there's a campaign by an alienating parent because there are these symptoms there... Gee... not exactly comparable to testing for the presence of the pneumococci bacteria, or a defective chromo
which we can identify because there is a campaign of programming by an
alienating parent and that's how we differentiate them from otherwise explainable
behavior... and we know there's a campaign by an
alienating parent because there are these symptoms there... Gee... not exactly comparable to testing for the presence of the pneumococci bacteria, or a defective chromosome.
They often catch us by surprise with their extreme thinking, emotions and
behavior,
which can include: an inability to compromise, lying, spreading rumors, stealing, damaging property, hiding money, suing their employers, frivolous lawsuits, stalking, abusing children,
alienating children, domestic violence and sometimes even killing people.
An
alienating parent may have a personality disorder, such as narcissism or a borderline personality,
which makes him or her unable to empathize with the child's feelings or see the way their
behavior is harming the child.
While it is clear that many parents engage in knowingly
alienating behavior some of the time, and other parents are abusive, it appears to be these unconscious
behaviors and attachment difficulties
which drive this desperate
behavior.
According to Gardner,
alienated parents are not guilty of the heinous
behaviors that they are accused of
which justifies a child's total alienation from them.
In For the Love of Eryk, Rod McCall shares his personal experience with Parental Alienation,
which was so severe, it led to the death of his son Eryk; killed by the hands of his own mother when she lost her parental rights as the courts finally saw through her
alienating behavior.
5) Corrupting - The child is missocialized and reinforced by the
alienating parent for lying, manipulation, aggression toward others or
behavior which is self destructive.
In the absence of tested interventions for Parental Alienation Syndrome, it may be advisable for targeted parents (or parents who suspect they are being targeted) to address the underlying goal of the
alienating parent rather than the specific
behaviors (
which may be unknown and / or may change over time).
«On the other hand, there certainly are cases in
which a very hurt and angry parent vindictively continues the
alienating behaviors in a pervasive and ongoing pattern.