HOW CAN ONE RECOGNISE PARENTAL ALIENATION? Parental alienation has been present for as long as families have existed. In a previous article we discussed the difference between estrangement and parental alienation. By means of the five-factor model, a professional can know what to look for when attempting to understand whether parental alienation is present or […]
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How can a specialised psychotherapist help a targeted parent? It is deeply regrettable that parents who are alienated endure this kind of suffering in solitude. Beyond the tragic loss of a child, the experience of being an alienated parent is profoundly distressing and beyond the comprehension of most non-specialists; as a result, the alienated parent is
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Estrangement or parental Alienation? In cases where a child naturally harbours strong hostile emotions towards a parent due to abandonment and/or abusive and/or neglectful and/or violent parenting, a child would not be considered as being alienated but estranged (Johnston, 2005). At first glance estrangement can be seen as having similar symptoms to an alienated child
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WHAT IS PARENTAL ALIENATION? Parental Alienation is a serious mental condition that affects hundreds of thousands of children and families (Lorandos et al., 2013, p.5) The condition is explained as the child being invited to become involved into the married couple’s struggle by the misleading, alienating parenting practices of the hypothetically favoured parent that creates a parent-child alliance against
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