Sentences with phrase «alienation syndrome describes»

Parental alienation syndrome describes a «disorder» in which a child feels unjustified and intense detachment towards one parent, as the result of the comments of the other parent.

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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.

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 term Parental Alienation Syndrome was first used by psychiatrist Richard Gardner in the 1980s to describe the extreme negative feelings a child may have toward a targeted parent as a response to the constant brainwashing and indoctrination by the other parent, who is usually the one with custody.

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.

Parental alienation syndrome — a controversial diagnosis to describe a child who compulsively denigrates one parent in response to consistent brainwashing by the other parent — has become a not - uncommon theme in custody cases.

The term parental alienation syndrome (PAS), first described by Richard Gardner, is also sometimes referred to as «brainwashing.»

«Although appellant argues that this case presents an issue of first impression because the family court relied on «parental alienation syndrome» as a factual basis for assuming jurisdiction, we believe that petitioner properly responds that the family court's factual findings are amply supported by the record and that the term «parental alienation syndrome» is merely a way of describing appellant's actions as they related to the circumstances of this case.

At trial, one of the psychologists who had worked with the family, described appellant's behavior as «parental alienation syndrome» simply as a way of describing her behavior.

«Evidence at the Frye hearing established that [Parental Alienation Syndrome] had been described in peer - reviewed literature dating from the late 1980s.

Parental alienation syndrome (PAS), a term coined by Richard A. Gardner in the 1980s, describes a condition — usually generated in the context of divorce or child custody disputes — in which a parent creates an alliance with their child against the other (non-abusive, nurturing, protective) parent.

Although the «parental alienation syndrome» was only first described in 1985 (Gardner, 1985), the question arises as to whether PAS has always been evident in the divorcing population, but unrecognized, or whether it is a recent phenomenon, perhaps increasing in prevalence.

They have created the term grandparent alienation syndrome to describe a scenario in which a child is programmed to reject a grandparent.

Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is the term used to describe children who are alienated (as opposed to estranged).

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a term used in child custody cases to describe one parent's manipulation of a child to harm the other parent.

Further details about the diagnosis and treatment of the parental alienation syndrome have been described elsewhere (Gardner, 1992, 1998, 2001a).

They described the parental behavior and its effects on the children with one researcher, Dr. Richard Gardner, calling those effects Parental Alienation Syndrome.

He also wrote the book Therapeutic Interventions for Children with Parental Alienation Syndrome to describe a protocol for deprogramming children.