Gregory Lester, Ph.D., describes possible causes that can account for the severity of the psychological disturbance seen in
severely alienating parents.
As stated above, evidence shows us that most
severely alienating parents will present with undiagnosed personality traits / disorders.
My argument is that none of them, within their remit of social work, have the clinical experience or expertise to recognise, assess and highlight
a severely alienating parent that may be presenting with certain personality traits.
Not exact matches
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.
Severely alienated children are best treated with traditional therapy techniques while living primarily with their favored
parent, 10.
Consequently, even
severely alienated children, when exposed over time to the targeted
parent for whom they once expressed fear and hatred, can recover and reclaim their true selves.
In order to explore this further we need to understand the psychological profile of those
parents that
severely alienate their children against the other
parent.
He recently co-authored An objective measure of splitting in parental alienation: The parental acceptance — rejection questionnaire (Journal of Forensic Science, 2017) which found that
severely alienated children engaged in a high level of splitting, by perceiving the preferred
parent in extremely positive terms and the rejected
parent in extremely negative terms, whereas splitting was not manifested by the children in other family groups.
My grandson is nine years old he has been abandoned out of the country twice in his short life by that time he was 5 1/2 his mom had been out of his life half his time when we got him out the foreign country he lived with me part of the time and his dad part of the time slowly he became a different little boy and then the
parents made a bad decision to move him out of state he's now in Colorado and being
severely alienated from those he lived with that gave him stable home and love
Some clinicians actually advise
parents of
severely alienated children to accept the loss of their children and simply hope for a possible future reconciliation.
Should valuable workshops that offer services to
severely alienated children offer programs for the favored
parent?
For children who are
severely alienated from the targeted
parent, more active interventions may be called for, including reunification therapy.
In the Baker and Darnall study, 68
parents who believed that their children were
severely alienated from them described their children along several dimensions including the eight components of PAS.
Next, the article describes an innovative educational and experiential program, Family Bridges: A Workshop for Troubled and
Alienated Parent - Child Relationships, that draws on social science research to help severely and unreasonably alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a parent they claim to hate
Alienated Parent - Child Relationships, that draws on social science research to help severely and unreasonably alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a parent they claim to hate or
Parent - Child Relationships, that draws on social science research to help
severely and unreasonably
alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a parent they claim to hate
alienated children and adolescents and recovered abducted children adjust to court orders that place them with a
parent they claim to hate or
parent they claim to hate or fear.