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Parental Alienation: What Therapists Need to Know

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Healthy Family Functioning 

AXIOMS OF HEALTHY FAMILY FUNCTIONING IN CASES OF PARENTAL SEPARATION/DIVORCE—for best interests of the child
(Based on the foundation that both parents are fit)
by Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW-R
  1. Each parent must maintain a cooperative and civil co-parenting relationship involving shared decision-making concerning their child/children in significant areas as educational, medical, religious, and social developments and activities.
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​Why Alienated Children can Pass a Lie Detector Test

Alienated children BELIEVE the frivolous, malicious, and pejorative rationalizations they concoct against their rejected parent. Just reiterate a lie frequently enough, and eventually it morphs into a tenacious belief. I have no doubt that alienated children can pass any lie detector test without batting an eyelash. (Gottlieb, 2012.) 

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Helping the Child

THE RESOLUTION TO HELPING A CHILD WHO EXPRESSES HATRED, FEAR, AND REJECTION OF A PARENT IS AMELIORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP—NOT EMOTIONAL CUTOFFS In what situations other than an adversarial custody matter do parents, therapists, attorneys, child protection staff, and judges accede to a child's expression of anger, permit the child's tenacity in remaining wedded to hatred, overlook the child's disrespectful and abusive behaviors, and sanction the child’s rejection of a significant individual to the child?

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​​What Can We Learn From Non-Alienated Children

This is so important to understanding what is normal and not normal when raising children.

How To Select A PA Expert

Parental alienation, a family dynamic in which one parent engages in behaviors that are likely to foster a child’s unjustified rejection of the other parent, is all too common.  By some estimates 80% of all divorcing parents engage in some PA behaviors (Clawar & Rivlin, 1992).
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ACE Studies

Below are links to various The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.
* Life course pathways of adverse childhood experiences toward adult psychological well-being: A stress process analysis by Paula S. Nurius, et.al
* Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults by Vincent J. Felitti, MD, et.al
* The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood by Robert E. Anda, et.al
* Unseen Wounds: The Contribution of Psychological Maltreatment to Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Risk Outcomes by Joseph Spinazzola, et.al

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