You and your child may also seek counseling in the form
of reunification therapy with a professional who is familiar with parental alienation.
She provides
reunification therapy for families involved in custody disputes and also administers court - ordered psychological assessments.
In most of these cases, communication between the parents has deteriorated badly by the time the family court intervenes and
orders reunification therapy.
Lately, however, the concept of
reunification therapy seems to be enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and it's this that I wish to talk about.
Instead, the legal system is receiving a variety of mixed information from professional psychology («parental alienation is a discredited form of pathology» — «the pathology in the family is only moderate parental alienation, we should
try reunification therapy» — «both parents are contributing to the child's conflict with the targeted parent» — «separating the child from the favored parent would be traumatic for the child»).
On the heels of a trial last week involving a longstanding campaign of parental alienation, in which my client was
seeking reunification therapy so that his child would be treated, and counseled, to learn to want to have a relationship with her targeted father again.
The Parent Coordinator's job
during reunification therapy is to responsively mold the current parenting plan in accordance with the reunification therapist's direction to assure everyone's cooperation.
When a child refuses to talk with or spend time with the other parent, then in many cases, the use of a child psychologist or counselor would be necessary in order to assist in redeveloping that parent - child relationship, something known
as reunification therapy.
Cornerstone
conducts reunification therapy for parents who have been reintroduced to their children and need therapy for improved communication and reunion.
The article examines the benefits, drawbacks, controversies, and ethical issues regarding various options available to courts and parents in responding to alienated children,
including reunification therapy, custodial transfers, boarding schools, and suspending attempts to repair damaged parent - child relationships.
Lisa is highly trained and experienced in conducting thorough Parental Alienation assessments, as well as in providing individual and
family reunification therapies.
Our BC Parental Alienation Lawyers will aggressively pursue intervention by psychologists, through judicial interviews of the children and
reunification therapy to protect children from becoming unwitting victims.
There is NOTHING in the professional literature that describes what «
reunification therapy» is.
If any mental health professional ever says that they do «
reunification therapy,» ask them for a reference citation so that you can read up on «reunification therapy» and participate more fully in the therapeutic process — and then watch them sputter and spurt.
The typical recommendations from the child custody evaluation is to maintain the status quo of favored custody to the allied parent and another round of failed «
reunification therapy.»
Did the money spent on «
reunification therapy» result in a solution?
During high conflict divorce, relocation disputes, and parental alienation cases, forensic psychologists and therapists can provide expertise in social investigations and child custody evaluations, interaction studies, psychological evaluations, gate keeping assessments, relocation evaluations, individual therapy, therapeutic supervised visitation, and
reunification therapy.
Assessment, commitment and planning and reunification are the stages in the course of
reunification therapy, which can last many months, according to Kimberly Von Bahr, MSW, LICSWA and a Family Reunification Therapist (RT).
For families participating in
a reunification therapy, therapists frequently refer the parent as either the «familiar» parent or the «unfamiliar» parent.
Both mental health experts and Parent Coordinators engage in reunification work, with the mental health experts taking on the more severe of these cases... often referred to as «
reunification therapy.»
While in less severe cases reunification work may proceed rather quickly, in more severe cases,
reunification therapy is often a more long - term family experience.
The treatment for parent alienation is
reunification therapy.
Dagan and Ailon (2015) offer a checklist for therapists when consulting with lawyers to set up the process of
reunification therapy.
«My specialization in family systems includes high conflict co-parenting, parent - child conflict, high conflict personalities, parental alienation, and
reunification therapy.
Readers will learn that
reunification therapy has unique challenges that require the therapist to rethink all they have previously learned about working with families in high conflict.
Dr. Ehrmann testified that he began working with the family several years previously, and had conducted a custody evaluation and
reunification therapy.
Structured family therapy /
reunification therapy is required to unbalance the sick family system and promote a healthier system.
There are psychoanalytic models of therapy, humanistic - existential models of therapy, cognitive - behavioral models of therapy, family systems models of therapy, and post-modern models of therapy, but there are no models that define what «
reunification therapy» entails.
We've been in
reunification therapy and the therapist acts like the distortions the child is saying are true, and the therapist has even asked me to apologize to the child for my past «failures,» when I didn't do anything wrong.
There is no such thing as «
reunification therapy» and professional psychology should be ashamed of itself for fostering this «junk therapy» upon the Court and public.