Dear Friends, My current term in the Israeli Knesset is coming to an end, and I would like to thank God and you all for the great privilege that I had in carrying out this special and significant mission. I am constantly in awe of the fact that the People of Israel returned to their …
One last message from Jerusalem as a Knesset member Read More »
Following Arutz Sheva exposé, co-sponsor MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) promises to remove clauses interfering in how parents educate children. After a public firestorm over a proposed law regulating parenting in Israel and enabling children to take their parents to court over various alleged violations of their “rights” – a co-sponsor of the bill has stated …
MK Vows to Change Communist-Style Parenting Bill Read More »
A meeting staged by Israeli MPs this week attracted angry protests and petitions calling for its cancellation. The Knesset Committee on Distributive Justice and Social Equality discussed an declared rise in the number of Israeli women making false claims of domestic violence against their husbands. The discussion was entitled: Dealing with False Complaints – Are Men Equal in …
Dealing with complaints of domestic violence is a complex problem. The state is obliged to protect the safety of residents and the complaint therefore requires it to distinguish between the suspect of an offense and its reporter in order to prevent further violence, before all the details are clarified. In the case of a complaint …
Dr. Richard Gardner, a well known child psychiatrist with a specialty in child psychotherapy, has brought his years of experience in child custody cases to this work. Dr. Gardner first traces the history of the adversary system (our societal sanctioned means of conflict resolution) with particular emphasis on the evolution of child custody litigation. He …
This study aimed to systematically review the literature pertaining to parental alienation to determine best practice for therapists and legal practitioners. Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO academic databases, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and conference abstracts were searched. Included articles were peer reviewed journal articles or books published in English pertaining to a psychological …
Recommendations for best practice in response to parental alienation Read More »
INTRODUCTIONParental alienation (PA) is a type of peri-divorce familial dysfunction characterized by the preoccupation of children with the denigration and the excessive criticism of one, most often the non-custodial, parent (Gardner, 1987; Wallerstein & Kelly, 1976). First recognized in their seminal study on the children of divorce, Wallerstein and Kelly (1976) identified children who, they …
ABSTRACTInduced parental alienation is a specific form of psychological child abuse, which is listed in DSM-5, the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), under diagnostic code V 995.51 “child psychological abuse”.Untreated induced parental alienation can lead to long-term traumatic psychological and physical effects in the children concerned.This fact is still …
Parental Alienation (Syndrome)-A serious form of psychological child abuse Read More »
