Parental Alienation – A Splitting of the Self
Nick Woodall, M.S., holds a master’s degree in psychodynamic psychotherapy and has worked with separated families since 1999. In addition to his therapeutic work with alienated families, Nick is an expert witness in the U.K. family courts. He has worked extensively on family policy, developing new services for the U.K. government. A former BBC Online […]
Parental Alienation – A Trans-Generational Trauma
Karen Woodall is a Trans-Generational Psychotherapist Treating Parental Alienation. She is a highly experienced psychotherapist and author who has worked with separated families since 1991. Research reveals that adult alienated children suffer in very unique ways—ways that include a strong chance of becoming alienated from their own children. The interminable pain follows adult–child victims from […]
Parental Alienation – Evidence Based Science
Steven G. Miller talks about Parental Alienation: Among professionals who specialize in child alignment, it is well known that many aspects of parental alienation are highly counter-intuitive. Examples include how to distinguish alienation from estrangement, how to identify hybrid cases, and how to treat alienated children. Other examples abound. What’s more, the use of the […]
Parental Alienation – Targeted parents and the effects – Research
Estimating the prevalence of parental alienation is challenging because not all children who are exposed to parental alienating behaviors become alienated. The purpose of the current study was to determine the proportion of adults who indicate being alienated from a child using three national online panels that are representative of adults from the United States […]
Parental Alienation – Reunification and treating alienated children
Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW, has had 40-plus years education and experience providing clinical treatment services to families of all compositions, orientations, and in all developmental stages. She has treated the wide spectrum of problems, issues, and dysfunctional family interactional patterns that are challenging for families. She has expertise in emergency services that included intensive, home-based, […]
Parental Alienation – Crazy Making Issues
Ben Burgess, M.A., obtained his degree in psychology from Western Michigan University and is now a practicing psychologist with the Fountain Hill Center for Counseling and Consultation. Since 2006, his primary focus has been on providing services to individuals and families experiencing high-conflict divorce and separation. In addition to individual and family counseling, Ben provides […]
Parental Alienation – Historical highlights
One of the most frequent criticisms of parental alienation—even by believers in the concept —is that “the lack of consensus on the definitions of alienation and the use of varying nonstandardized measures limit the ability of researchers to conduct methodologically sound research in this area.” William Bernet, M.D., a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University School […]
Parental Alienation – In the eyes of the specialists
Specialists talk about Parental Alienation in interviews filmed on location at the PASG 2019 International Conference (Parental Alienation Study Group) in Philadelphia, USA, in September 2019.
Unfathered
Japan is internationally considered the ‘black hole’ of parental child abduction. Every year an estimated 150,000 parents are cut off from their children’s life due to a unilateral decision of their partner. The rest of the world describes these cases as ‘abduction’ and treat them as such, but this practice is widely tolerated in Japan. […]
You come home from the gym like any Saturday morning but this time the house is quiet.
The Children’s Rights Council Japan (CRCJapan) estimates that at least 100 children are abducted by Japanese spouses both in and to Japan every year, and there is no legal way to get them back or even contact them because Japan does not recognize international parental custody rights. According to numerous parents interviewed, Japan does not […]
