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 …
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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 …
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WHAT IS FAMILY BRIDGES?Family Bridges has been designed to deal with children “whom courts and therapists have traditionally viewed as beyond help.”. These include three main types of severely alienated children, those who (1) reject the TP after divorce, (2) refuse and/or resist contact with a TP and (3) have a seriously strained relationship with …
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The Parental Alienation Syndrome, so named by Dr. Richard Gardner, is a distinctive family response to divorce in which the child becomes aligned with one parent and preoccupied with unjastified and / or exaggerated denigration of the other, target parent. In severe cases, the child’s once love-bonded relationship with rejected / target parent is destroyed. …
Creative Therapeutics, Inc., Cresskill, N.J. 07626, Richard A. Gardner, M.D. Since the publication of the second edition of my PAS book there have been many developments in this field.These developments have implications for dealing with PAS families, by both legal and mental health professionals. Inducing PAS in a child is a form of emotional abuse. …
Parental alienation (PA) profoundly affects both children and alienated parents. Children of PA are at increased risk for future trust and relationship issues, depression, and substance abuse. For a rejected parent, the pain is excruciating. This article discusses PA from two points of view. The first part relates an account of PA from the perspective …
Discover surprising answers from early marriage and parenting. During 40 years of being a child and adult psychiatrist, and 20 years as a forensic child psychiatrist, I discovered one of the unsavory ways automatic living plays out. This occurs in parental alienation (PA). Parental alienation begins long before divorce occurs. In this blog post, I will talk about why PA is …
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