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January 29, 2010 Parental Alienation Support

Please see Dr. Warshak, author of Divorce Poison

Breakthrough Parenting

Conscious Co-Parenting Institute (addresses Parental Alienation)

All About the Children

All About The Children is the premier web enabled divorce communications management tool for couples with children.

Children in the Middle (May be taken in privacy of your own home) controlled outcome research outcomes

Parenting After Divorce

Up to Parents: A free, confidential, and interactive website
for divorcing and divorced parents

When Parents Hurt

Our Family Wizard

Our Family Wizard Page

The OurFamilyWizard website is an online custody calendar and information manager that allows you to easily schedule and track parenting time, share important family information and expenses as well as create clear communication.

Mr. Custody Coach

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Tough Love from Texas with Richard Warshak, PhD Article by Burwell Casts Parental Alienation as Occasional Trash-Talk by Monika Logan

Parental Alienation Support

This page is to provide support by offering resources and references in regard to parental alienation. It is provided with the understanding that the blog is not providing any legal, mental health, or other professional service. The information is not designed to replace the services of a qualified mental health professional, attorney, or expert in parental alienation. This page does not represent the opinion of any professional organization. Nothing on this site should be construed as offering professional or therapeutic recommendations. This blog does however attempt to dispel the myth that parental alienation is nothing more than junk science or a misused theory. Hopefully, others will review the references and resources. Most of the articles cite parental alienation experts that have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Parental alienation is emotional abuse. To eradicate this form of abuse requires education, advocacy, awareness, and empirical advancement.

An Obvious Point

"Though it might seem an obvious point, not everyone agrees that a child’s unreasonable denigration and rejection of a parent should be considered an abnormal development worthy of professional attention. One author believes it is possible that parental alienation is a normal part of growing up . She argued that we have no basis for regarding parental alienation as abnormal because we lack normative data from intact and low-conflict divorced families, i.e., we lack research on the prevalence of this phenomenon. The position that it might be normal for children to be alienated from their parents is inconsistent with the scientific literature. It overlooks research on children’s adjustment in divorced families and on healthy parent-child relations in intact families." Dr. Richard Warshak 2001

Alienation a normal reaction? Maybe, after 1 year. What about 15 years?

As noted by Dr. Bernet, a Vanderbilt University psychiatrist, "We don't want to label kids unnecessarily, but these kids are not reacting in a normal way." "We're talking about kids who have a false belief, a little like a delusion, that the other parent is an evil, dangerous person. To me that looks and sounds like a mental disorder." Obviously, the alienating parent needs help. But, as pointed out by Jaffe et al. (2010) “a minority of parents who suffer from personality and mental disorders may ignore the court and spend their waking hours finding ways to exhaust the other parent emotionally and financially." I do not imagine the parents noted by Jaffe et al. would voluntarily seek help nor do they care about stopping the denigration.

Even When You Win You Lose

"Even when targeted parents had the resources to pursue legal action and were fortunate enough to prevail [sic] they were not able to take advantage of the rights afforded to them by the courts because alienating parents did not respect the court orders, the attorneys were not interested in or able to force the alienating parent into compliance. Apparently, once the alienating parent determined that this was the case, noncompliance became the order of the day, so to speak" --Dr. Amy J.L. Baker

Family Court Review

The Australian Family Relationship Centres and the Future of Services for Separating and Divorcing Families
The Role of the State in Family Law
Jurisdictions around the world have been grappling with the appropriate boundaries for the State's role in family law, particularly during this time of fiscal restraint. This article draws on some of the history and research from New Zealand, Canada and the United States to outline the fundamental elements of a just family law system. The authors sugges […]
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Guidelines for Child Protection Mediation
The Child Protection Mediation Guidelines Workgroup came together under the auspices of the Child Welfare Collaborative Decision Making Network to examine program development and the practice of Child Protection Mediation (CPM). The Workgroup convened and began its work in 2010. The resultant “Guidelines for Child Protection Mediation” was approved by the AF […]
The Idea of Family Relationship Centres in Australia
Family Relationship Centres formed the centrepiece of major reforms to the family law system in Australia which were introduced from 2006 onwards. They were established all over the country between 2006 and 2008, providing information and advice and offering free or heavily subsidised mediation of parenting disputes. They are an early intervention strategy t […]
From Helping Court to Community-Based Services: The 30-Year Evolution of Australia's Family Relationship Centres
As a centrepiece of Australia's 2006 family law reforms, the community-based Family Relationship Centres (FRCs) represented a major development in the Government's commitment to incorporate family relationship services into its family law system. This paper sees FRCs as a logical development of the original conceptualising the Family Court of Austr […]

PAS In The News

Investigators: Parent alienation - FOX 9 News May 16, 2013
Investigators: Parent alienationFOX 9 News"He's certainly not neutral on the issue of parental alienation," MacDonald said. Reitman calls parental alienation emotional abuse, and he said that in general, it can cause higher rates of depression, chemical dependency, anxiety and personality ...
Parental Alienation: Does it Really Exist? - DigitalJournal.com (press release) April 22, 2013
Parental Alienation: Does it Really Exist?DigitalJournal.com (press release)Depending on the expert, parental alienation syndrome, or PAS, is either made-up psychobabble or behavior by one parent that causes significant harm to children during child costody disputes. The reality, of course, is that it's a little of both ...
Support groups are ready to help those with various needs - TriCities.com May 17, 2013
Support groups are ready to help those with various needsTriCities.comNETN AGAINST PARENTAL ALIENATION GROUP: Accepting participants for a support group in Tri-Cities. If you are going through a divorce or custody battle, we want to help. 423-342-7877 or e-mail pasaware@yahoo.com. N-FUZE: Jonesville, Va., Lee ...
Support Groups - GoErie.com May 13, 2013
Support GroupsGoErie.comParental Alienation Syndrome Support Group; write to brokenbonds4@aol.com and provide a phone number or e-mail address. - Nar-Anon for families and friends of people dealing with addictions. Meets Mondays, 7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, ...and more »
LETTER: Visitation rights should be enforced - Morning Star May 8, 2013
LETTER: Visitation rights should be enforcedMorning StarPAS stands for “Parental Alienation Syndrome” and the definition is: "An aggressive form of psychological abuse whereby one parent degrades and destroys the relationship between the children and the other parent." With divorce so commonplace, it is ...and more »

Parental Alienation Disorder