Nevertheless,
the terms alienated parent and targeted parent are often used interchangeably.
Not exact matches
The book describes PAS as a form of emotional abuse, explains the strategies that
alienating parents use, compares
alienating parents to cult leaders, identifies eleven catalysts that can trigger the realization that one has been a child victim of PAS, and describes the long -
term effects of PAS.
Time - sharing,
parenting plans, and shared parental responsibilities are
terms that are commonly used by courts to ensure that the custody arrangement does not
alienate one
parent in favor of the other.
In
terms of the motivation, the
alienating parent holds no value at all for the other
parent (whether motivated by fears, emptiness, helplessness) and the hatred and disdain are completely overt.
«The
alienating parent is believed to have narcissistic / borderline personality disorder, which complicates the situation in
terms of how they view the world, and many times they truly believe their children do not need the other
parent in their lives,» she said.
Some scholars have emphasized the importance of identifying background and personal factors that contribute to the child's resistance to a
parent and have adopted the
term «child alienation» or «
alienated child» to emphasize the individual child's situation (Kelly & Johnston, 2001).
It can be a personality disorder, or some other constellation of disorders that causes the
alienating parent to see the other
parent in «black and white»
terms, and to view the targeted
parent as deserving of malicious retribution in the form of losing a relationship with their children.
The second use of the
term refers more to the specific behaviors engaged in by the
alienating parent, that result in the child becoming
alienated.
Alienating Parent: ♀ ♂ — Custodial parent did not change, only the terms of child support were in di
Parent: ♀ ♂ — Custodial
parent did not change, only the terms of child support were in di
parent did not change, only the
terms of child support were in dispute.
So, while the literature has dropped the concept of Syndrome, one could think of
Parent Alienation as an umbrella term where a child is alienated from a parent and the question become
Parent Alienation as an umbrella
term where a child is
alienated from a
parent and the question become
parent and the question becomes why?
The following types of personality disorders are most prevalent in
terms of the
alienating parent in cases of severe parental alienation:
Alienated children react to their
parents in absolute
terms of «black and white.»
The
term PAS does not applywhen children of divorce become
alienated from a
parent for reasons such as a
parent's lack of interest in or rejection of the child; significant deficits in a rejected
parent's functioning which may not rise to the level of abuse; or the child being subjected to bona fide parental abuse or neglect.
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.
The
term, then, removes the court's focus away from the alienator and redirects attention to what might be only minor parental deficiencies exhibited by the
alienated parent.
For simplicity of presentation, then, I have often used the
term mother to refer to the alienator, and the
term father to refer to the
alienated parent.
The
term PAS is applicable only when the target
parent has not exhibited anything close to the degree of
alienating behavior that might warrant the campaign of vilification exhibited by the child.
The
term PAS is applicable only when the target
parent has not exhibited anything close to the degree of
alienating behavior that might warrant the campaign of vilification exhibited by the children.