Parental alienation often forces children to choose sides and become
allies against the other parent.
Often children are caught in the middle of parental disputes and are enlisted by one parent as
an ally against the other parent in a campaign of systematic denigration and...
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arental incompetence by the supposedly «favored»
parent and the
allied parent's tacit approval and support for the child's conflict with the
other parent, is the characteristic symptom set associated with the child's «triangulation» into the spousal conflict through the formation of a «cross-generational» coalition with one
parent against the
other parent.
The easiest and most efficient way to assess for pathogenic
parenting by an allied parent in a cross-generational coalition with the child against the other parent is to use the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic P
parenting by an
allied parent in a cross-generational coalition with the child
against the
other parent is to use the Diagnostic Checklist for Pathogenic
ParentingParenting.
If the psychologist has not even assessed for pathogenic
parenting by an
allied parent in a cross-generational coalition with the child
against the
other parent, then the diagnostic statements and forensic testimony of this psychologist CAN NOT possibly be based on «information and techniques sufficient to substantiate their findings» and would therefore be in violation of Standard 9.01 a of the APA ethics code.
This pattern of symptom features for the inverted hierarchy, feigning of selective parental incompetence by the supposedly «favored»
parent and the
allied parent's tacit approval and support for the child's conflict with the
other parent, is the characteristic symptom set associated with the child's «triangulation» into the spousal conflict through the formation of a «cross-generational» coalition with one
parent against the
other parent.
An appropriate assessment of this attachment - related pathology surrounding divorce is to assess for and document the potential presence of three diagnostic indicators of pathogenic
parenting by an
allied narcissistic / (borderline)
parent who is in a cross-generational coalition with the child
against the
other parent (Haley, 1977; Minuchin, 1974).
These
parents enlist children as
allies in a battle
against the
other parent.
ALL professionally competent mental health professionals WILL ASSESS for and document the presence of the three diagnostic indicators of pathogenic
parenting associated with the trans - generational transmission of «pathological mourning» (Bowlby, 1980) within the family; an attachment - related disorder which is being mediated by the personality pathology of the
allied parent (Giammarco & Vernon; 2014; Kernberg, 1975; Millon, 2011) who is in a cross-generational coalition with the child
against the
other parent (a «perverse triangle»; Haley, 1977).
Briefly, parental alienation can occur in the setting of a high conflict divorce: One
parent allies with the child (ren)
against the
other parent, forming a cross-generational coalition, splitting off and often erasing the
other parent from the child's life.