Parents Against Parental Alienation (PAPA) is an online Yahoo support group
where alienated parents share support, suggestions and advocacy opportunities.
According to Minuchin, this rigid triangle forms a stable coalition
where the alienating parent forms a rigid bond or attachment with the child in this coalition against the rejected parent.
I have seen cases
where alienating parents are given slaps on the wrist or «asked» to not engage in a behavior and their failure to follow the rules is met with little or no consequences.
This is particularly likely to be the case with Divorce Related Malicious Parent Syndrome,
where the alienating parent's anger, aggression, manipulation and deception tend to be driven by internal forces which far exceed external realities and contributions of the target parent (17, 18).
In some cases, ranging from moderate to severe PA,
where the alienating parent is intensively programming and there is a likely risk that the alienation will become more severe, Gardner recommended a different approach.
Not exact matches
Hostile Aggressive
Parenting is exhibited in such a situation
where one
parent hopes to
alienate children from the other
parent for a variety of reasons.
He has likewise seen instances
where the non-resident
parent has, deliberately, or otherwise, sought to
alienate a child from the resident
parent.
We are now witnessing, obtained through comprehensive
parent histories, a cyclical pattern to the alienation process
where children who have been
alienated from a
parent grow up to be
alienating adults.
Very often, we will hear of instances
where an
alienated child is acting out some claim that they do not want to see the targeted
parent, and are becoming agitated and upset in making this claim.
This is
where as the house of the
alienating parent disappears from the rear view mirror, then so does some of the symptomatology of the Parental Alienation.
While conflicts over timesharing does occur in many cases
where a
parent can't deliver a child to the other
parent for valid reasons more often than not is rather rare because most true
alienating parents are savvier than this....
(Parental alienation is a situation
where one
parent intentionally attempts to
alienate the child from the other
parent by poisoning his / her mind and usually succeeds.
Parental alienation is another form of covert violence
where children are used as a weapon of war by one
parent to
alienate the other
parent.
Implementers emphasized that efforts to engage families under an alignment framework must be driven by the unique needs of the communities being served by each district or school; a one - size - fits - all model runs the risk of
alienating parents and missing critical opportunities to meet families
where they are.
In other words, children in families
where loyalty conflicts exist tend to side with one
parent, oftentimes
alienating the other.
We have read many a mis - guided and ill informed custody evaluation
where the seriously enmeshed relationship between the
alienated child and the
alienating parent is described as being «very close» implying that this kind of closeness is healthy.
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?
«It's easy for an
alienating parent to hide behind a hybrid designation,» he says, adding that the label is often attached to cases
where the targeted
parent reacts in a maladaptive way to their children's bad behaviour towards them.
«I am currently in a position
where our therapist is asking the courts to remove our children from the
alienating parent and have them placed back in my custody.
In other cases
where the «reunification therapy» employs approaches that may be effective, tactics of the
alienating parent and child, who postpone, reschedule, and fail to attend appointments, will delay and frustrate the goals.
Another potential problem could arise in the form of so - called «hybrid cases,» the name given to matters
where some of the blame for the state of the
parent - child relationship is placed on the
alienated parent, Ludmer says.
Where the targeted
parent has not contributed to their position of alienation, all evidence suggests that a child emerges immediately from their position of alienation, particularly when there has been respite from the coercive behaviours of the
alienating parent, such as a change of residence (Woodall, 2015).
You might be an
alienated parent if your seven - year old reports, «I know the law; just wait till I am of age; I will tell the judge
where I want to live.