Sentences with phrase «aligned parent»

By making a commitment to a weekly call, you'll know that in the midst of the craziness of parenting, you have set aside time to reflect, to problem solve, and to align your parenting practices to your values and to your long term goals.

This protects the process and does not allow one parent to attempt to align the parenting facilitator «on their side» or «with their point of view» prior to the initial session.

This occurs because the child is fearful of losing the aligned parents support if he shows any connection with the other parent.

Similarly, Kelly's earlier work emphasized the contributions of the aligned parent,

Where there is a particularly enmeshed relationship between the aligned parent and child, the child's legitimate strivings for autonomy are continually under mined.

Then, Gardner (1998) offered his understanding, suggesting that this phenomenon could be considered a diagnosable syndrome, in which a child has been severely brainwashed by an aligned parent to the point of pathologically rejecting the other parent (Gardner, 1998; Kelly & Johnston, 2001).

Furthermore, as these processes of projection and splitting are occurring, and the child begins acting on this dissonance resolution (e.g. refusing to interact with the rejected parent), the child can rationalize his or her beliefs and behaviors towards the rejected parent using a number of reasons that, by that point, would feel logical to the child (e.g. «[The rejected parent] is the reason for [the aligned parent's] pain, so I don't need to be involved with him!»).

It is important not to overgeneralize, however, and to keep in mind that behavior of the aligned parent and child may influence and concretize the ambivalence reserve or indignation of the rejected parent.

My proposition is that the competing interests of caring for the other parent and the idealization of the aligned parent creates a dissonance so intense that resolution involves allowing for the accumulation of all of the child's pain, stress, and anxiety to be projected onto the rejected parent in such a way that the rejected parent becomes a tangible manifestation of any discomfort the child has experienced thus far.

The child applies this black and white thinking in order to resolve the dissonance felt regarding the parents; further idolizing the aligned parent, while assigning all negativity to the rejected parent (Eddy & Saposnek 2012).

Additional attention must be paid to working with the aligned parent, and making sure that the parent understands how his / her cooperation and support is an undeniable necessity for any progress to be made (DeJong & Davies, 2012; Johnston et al., 2001).

In this way, the child can eliminate the stress of catering to both parents, and merely focus on giving support to and receiving support from the aligned parent (Friedlander & Walters, 2010).

• Identifying primary parental alienating strategies and manifestations of alienation on the part of the child • Reviewing the clinical aspects of alienation and estrangement; strategies for treating the child, the rejected parent and the aligned parent

• Discussing the critical strategies involved in representing the rejected parent and the aligned parent; when and what motions should be filed; and what relief should be sought.