For children who are severely alienated from the targeted parent, more active interventions may be called for,
including reunification therapy.
Not exact matches
Without a protective separation — unless we can first protect the child from the manipulative psychological control of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent — no form
therapy will solve the pathology,
including and especially a mythical form of
therapy in which the therapist is just making stuff up («
reunification therapy»).
This
includes marital distress, engaging men in
therapy, family court
reunification issues, and crisis needs.
«My specialization in family systems
includes high conflict co-parenting, parent - child conflict, high conflict personalities, parental alienation, and
reunification therapy.
Type of prevention consisting of activities targeted to families in which abuse has already occurred and
include early intervention and targeted services, such as individual, group, and family counseling; parenting education - such as Parent - Child Interactive
Therapy (PCIT); community and social services referrals for substance abuse treatment, domestic violence services, psychiatric evaluations, and mental health treatment; infant safe - haven programs; family
reunification services (
including follow - up care programs for families after a child has been returned); temporary child care; etc..
[** hostile - aggressive parenting, enmeshment, intrusive parenting, intractable hostilities, high conflict, etc.] The recent rise of lucrative PAS
therapies,
including Warshak's Bridges program, residential camps, court - ordered custody - switches based on Gardner's threat
therapy ideas, various
reunification therapies (for which there are no adequately researched protocols), and other ad - hoc money - making practices of many psychologists who for a fee profess to offer services that will engineer affectionate relationships between estranged parents and non-compliant children, veer uncomfortably close at times in theory and some of their practices to the dangerous, cultic and discredited «attachment»
therapies of decades past, i.e. in many cases, they are child abuse.
Her practice also
includes child, individual, marital and family
therapy and both
reunification interventions with families experiencing parental alienation and other parent - child contact problems,
including participation as a staff psychologist at the Overcoming Barriers High Conflict Divorce Camp.