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# Overcoming Parental Alienation

Leaders in Post-separation Family and Alienation Policy, Remediation

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## Posts

- [The Relational Justice Project: From Opens to a Constituency.](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-relational-justice-project-from-opens-to-a-constituency/) - Most of the subscribers to the Relational Justice Project have come through the Dialogue In Growth community. Family relationships are social infrastructure.
- [Introducing The Relational Justice Project](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/introducing-the-relational-justice-project/) - The Relational Justice Project is a dedicated public social and policy forum for family relationships that needs social and institutional commitment to protect.
- [What Does Relational Injustice Look Like?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/what-does-relational-injustice-look-like/) - I have published a short note on The Relational Justice Project asking: what does relational injustice look like?
- [The Relational Justice Project: What alienation takes from children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-relational-justice-project-what-alienation-takes-from-children/) - Alienation destroys family relationships. They are not merely private attachments. They are a social infrastructure. They must be protected
- [Open Letter to Ministers for Women](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/open-letter-to-ministers-for-women/) - A serious Minister for Men and a serious Minister for Women would build a relational-violence policy.
- [The Alienated Society Ends Here](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-alienated-society-ends-here/) - This is Bigger Than Psychology and Law; it is a moral and political failure. The answer is political action
- [Open Letter to Aspiring Ministers for Men in Public Office](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/open-letter-to-aspiring-ministers-for-men-in-public-office/) - Australia is beginning to appoint ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men. So, you want to be Minister for Men? Then, understand the job.
- [Essay: The Child is Still in the Middle: Parental Alienation, Domestic Abuse and the Battle for the Future of Family Policy](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/essay-the-child-is-still-in-the-middle-parental-alienation-domestic-abuse-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-family-policy/) - A call to the domestic abuse field: accept conceptual parity with parental alienation, embrace evidentiary governance and relational ethics in family policy
- [New White Paper Calls for a Social and Public Health Policy Framework for Alienation in Families](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/new-white-paper-calls-for-a-social-and-public-health-policy-framework-for-alienation-in-families/) - Parental alienation cannot be addressed only through courts, clinicians and private family disputes. It requires institutional accountability.
- [New White Paper: Parental Alienation, Relational Harm and the Future of Families](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-why-future-families-need-relational-ethics/) - Parental alienation is not only a post-separation family-law issue. It is a warning about what happens when children’s relationships become disposable.
- [UPDATE: A Suicide Prevention Blind Spot: Family Relationship Rupture and DFSV](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/a-suicide-prevention-blind-spot-family-relationship-rupture-and-dfsv/) - UPDATE: Submission to the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs on Suicide and Family Relationship Disruption
- [PASG 2026 Perth, Australia: Our Keynote Speakers](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/pasg-2026-perth-australia-our-keynote-speakers/) - Meet some of our keynote speakers for PASG 2026, presenting inspiring and inquisitive views about parental alienation (PA). Join us! The website is open!
- [Challenging the “Contestability” Claims About Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/challenging-the-contestability-claims-about-parental-alienation/) - "Contestability” is used to delegitimise parental alienation (PA) while leaving gendered theories of family violence (GFV)untouched by the same standard.
- [Parental Alienation: Shaping the Future of Families](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-shaping-the-future-of-families/) - Parental alienation engages with the broader context of rapidly evolving family structures; it is time to recenter families and family relationships in society.
- [POLICY BRIEF: Rethinking Gendered Models of Family Violence](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/policy-brief-rethinking-gendered-models-of-family-violence/) - This policy brief challenges entrenched notions that parental alienation theory is contestable and the implication that gendered family violence theory is not.
- [IPV, Tired and Misleading Tropes From the AIFS](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/ipv-tired-and-misleading-tropes-from-the-aifs/) - The AIFS IPV report is flawed, misleading, and gender-discriminatory for ignoring the roles women may play in perpetrating IPV, including coercive control.
- [NOT A National Suicide Prevention Strategy For Parental Alienation!](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/not-a-national-suicide-prevention-strategy-for-parental-alienation/) - Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy is not for men and women dying from suicide due to parental alienation and disrupted family relationships.
- [Parental Alienation: Focus on The 2025 Australian Federal Election](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-focus-on-the-2025-australian-federal-election/) - Election campaigns ignore family law failures, leaving families in the turmoil of separation, coercive control, and parental alienation.
- [Withdrawing the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop from Australia](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/withdrawing-the-building-family-bridges-workshop-from-australia/) - We no longer provide the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop and the After Care Protocol to remediate severely alienated parent-child relationships in Australia.
- [Family Law Amendment Bill 2023: An Anti-Family and Anti-Child Law](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/family-law-amendment-bill-2023-an-anti-family-and-anti-child-law/) - The Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 is an anti-family, anti-child Family Law. It does not reflect community expectations about the role of family relationships.
- [Proxy Murder: How Parental Alienating Behaviours Lead to Suicide](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/proxy-murder-how-parental-alienating-behaviours-lead-to-suicide/) - Parental alienating behaviour linked to 5 men and 10 women dying from suicide every 11 days from "disruptions to family relationships by separation or divorce".
- [Alienated Parent Suicide may be Death by Family Violence (Amended)](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienated-parent-suicide-may-be-death-by-family-violence/) - Perhaps the Coroner should reopen cases of suicide-attributed deaths of alienated parents to determine the association to the alienating parent's behaviours.
- [What Happens When Men become Alienated from their Children?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/what-happens-when-men-become-alienated-from-their-children/) - Suicidality and poor mental and physical health stalk fathers alienated from their children. Social policies and legislation, recognising fathers is required.
- [Parental Alienation: The Cancel Culture No-one Talks About](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-the-cancel-culture-no-one-talks-about/) - Stop parental alienation behaviours! They are a cancel culture destroying parent's and children's identities.
- [A Social and Political Map For Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/a-social-and-political-map-for-parental-alienation/) - Social and political action is required to address alienation in families affecting the nature of families, how they are constituted, and the role of parents.
- [Parental Alienation: A Violent and Potentially Lethal Social and Psychological Phenomenon](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-a-violent-and-potentially-lethal-social-and-psychological-phenomenon/) - Violent coercive-controlling parental alienation behaviours may result in alienated children rejecting and killing the other parent and themselves.
- [Sociological Implications of Social Alienation and its Demon Spawn Parental Alienation in Families](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/sociological-implications-of-social-alienation-and-its-demon-spawn-parental-alienation-in-families/) - A sociological view of parental alienation offers a structural perspective for public health policy, de-alienation as a social and structural response.
- [Parental Alienation: What Doesn't Family Law and Family Violence Know?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-what-doesnt-family-law-and-family-violence-know/) - We know what they don't know: A pathway out of Family Law and Family Violence reliance on outdated, misleading or incorrect concepts about parental alienation.
- [Alienating Father Makes Mother Terrified of her Son](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienated-father-makes-mother-terrified-of-her-son/) - "M" is an alienated mother. Alienation made her terrified of her son. Family Violence Services and Family Law were unhelpful. Her family ostracised her.
- [Accredited Professional Development in Parental Alienation Presentations and Behaviours](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/accredited-professional-development-in-parental-alienation-presentations-and-behaviours/) - Follow the LINK to learn why practitioners fail to recognise parental alienation presentations and behaviours and how training and education is essential.
- [How Family Law Perpetuates in Alienation Abuse](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/how-family-law-perpetuates-in-alienation-abuse/) - "D's ex-partner laundered her identity through her Family Lawyer to get at him. He was surprised that her lawyer participated in alienation abuse.
- [Alienation Abuse: Suddenly She Wanted to See Her Father](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienation-abuse-suddenly-she-wanted-to-see-her-father/) - Imagine an alienated dad's surprise when his daughter contacted him after a year. She said she would like to spend time with him but it was alienation abuse
- [Response to UN Special Rapporteur's Call for Input: Custody Cases, Violence against Women and Children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/response-to-un-special-rapporteurs-call-for-input-custody-cases-violence-against-women-and-children/) - Parental alienation theory gives equity to mothers, fathers and children in violent family situations. Gendered family violence theory harms women and children.
- [False Allegations in Parental Alienation Cases: Misleading Family Law](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/false-allegations-in-parental-alienation-cases-misleading-family-law/) - Alienating parents risk losing parental care and responsibility when the forensic investigation and judicial processes discover their false allegations.
- [False Allegations and Parental Alienation in Australian Family Law](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/false-allegations-and-parental-alienation-in-australian-family-law/) - False allegations may be used as a defence against parental alienation in Australian Family law. Parents making false allegations implicate themselves.
- [Family Violence Orders: Should You Really Apply For Them?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/family-violence-orders-should-you-really-apply-for-them/) - In parental alienation cases, Family Violence Orders against targeted-alienated parents may result in reversing parental care and responsibility to them
- [Parental Alienation Awareness Day: Be Aware of the Social Pandemic!](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-awareness-day-be-aware-of-the-social-pandemic/) - Promoting parental alienation awareness day. Supporting parents in maintaining relationships with their alienated children through separation and divorce.
- [Alienated Parents: Reclaim Your Identity, It's Not For Sale!](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienated-parents-reclaim-your-identity-its-not-for-sale/) - Targeted-alienated parents may need to reclaim their identity as parents to their alienated children. Their identity is not for sale!
- [Alienated Children: The  'Humpty Dumpty' Factor](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienated-children-the-humpty-dumpty-factor/) - How do alienated parents confront the reality that they either cannot bring Humpty Dumpty back together again or if they can, what they bring back is a monster?
- [CRASH! Parental Alienation, Family Violence and Family Law](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/crash-parental-alienation-family-violence-and-family-law/) - Family law professionals struggle with parental alienation as a form of family violence against the targeted parent and a form of abuse against the child
- [Alienation and COVID-19: Business as 'Unusual'](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienation-and-covid-19-business-as-unusual/) - Think carefully about keeping your children safe AND in contact with you. Social distancing and child psychological abuse by alienation are NOT the same thing.
- [The Schlock Horror Alienation Show-National Suicide Prevention Day](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-schlock-horror-alienation-show-national-suicide-prevention-day/) - Alienation really is schlock horror in real life. The thing is, real people die while we all look on in horror. You could be next.
- ['The Pinball Machine': How The 'House' Wins The Alienation Game](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-pinball-machine-how-the-house-wins-the-alienation-game/) - 'The Pinball Machine" is an autobiographical account of the author's international journey to save his daughter from child psychological abuse by alienation.
- [Oh No! The Non-Festive Season: A Protest By Targeted-Alienated Parents](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/oh-no-the-non-festive-season-a-protest-by-targeted-alienated-parents/) - For targeted-alienated parents whose children are not going to see them in this festive season, who consider that their children must make different choices.
- [CLOSING: Research into the Lived Experience of Parental Alienation in a Social Context](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/closing-research-into-the-lived-experience-of-parental-alienation-in-a-social-context/) - it is time to close the data gathering phase of the research and from 5 PM AEST on Sunday, 2 December 2018, no further responses or volunteers can be accepted.
- [Progress on Research into The Lived Experience of Parental Alienation in a Social Context](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/progress-on-research-into-the-lived-experience-of-parental-alienation-in-a-social-context/) - Thank you to all the targeted/alienated parents and caregivers who have responded so far This is your chance to be heard and listened to about your experience.
- [Research into the Lived Experience of Parental Alienation in a Social Context](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/ethics-approval-for-social-science-research-on-the-social-impact-of-parental-alienation/) - If you identify as a targeted, rejected or alienated parent, you may be interested in participating in this research at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Social_Research_PA
- [Ethics Approval for Research into Parental Alienation as a Social Phenomenon](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/ethics-approval-for-research-into-parental-alienation-as-a-social-phenomenon/) - Ethics approval has now been obtained to commence social science research into targeted parent's 'lived experience of parental alienation in a social context'.
- [Parental Alienation Professional Development](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-professional-development/) - I have just finished delivering a one-day professional development program on parental alienation for professional staff at a social services organisation providing frontline services to parents and children.
- [Parental Alienation Symposium Adelaide University 2017](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-symposium-adelaide-university-2017/) - Family law does not understand parental alienation as a form of abuse, unsubstantiated allegations of family violence may influence decisions against alienated parents, and the functional description of parental alienation as a form of family violence (Section 4AB of the Family Law Act, 1975) is poorly appreciated.
- [Parental Alienation:Evidence Based Reunification Available in Australia](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienationevidence-based-reunification-available-in-australia/) - Family Bridges Program-Evidence Based Reunification for Parental Alienation now available in Australia
- [Parental Alienation Symposium-Adelaide, Australia](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-symposium-adelaide-australia/) - For those who can, please join me at this free public symposium in Adelaide, Australia hosted by the Adelaide Freemasons Foundation Centre.
- [Festive Greetings to Adult Alienated Children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/festive-greetings-to-adult-alienated-children/) - We are not here to dissuade you from your hostile rejection and false beliefs. We are living refutations of what you believe about us and indeed of yourself.
- [Alienated Children Ordered Into Juvenile Care: An Australian Perspective](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/alienated-children-juvenile-care-australia/) - Alienated Children Ordered Into Juvenile Care: An Australian Perspective Could it Happen Here, Should it Happen Here?: Could this happen, should it happen here in Australia?
- [Parental Alienation: A Matter of Social Pathology and Social Justice](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-a-matter-of-social-pathology-and-social-justice/) - New social science research inquiry seeks to establish the social pathology of parental alienation as another dimension to its already well-established medical pathology.
- [Hope for Reconnection and Reunification after Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/hope-for-reconnection-and-reunification-after-parental-alienation/) - International Congress of Psychology 2016, Yokohama, Japan: Australian context for parental alienation intervention, working only with the alienated parent.
- [Parental Alienation: What is Wrong with Your Family Assessment?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-what-is-wrong-with-your-family-assessment/) - The guidelines available to family consultants are outdated and inadequate in the guidance offered about PA and its impact upon children and parents.
- [Important Changes for Parental Alienation Services in Australia](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/important-changes-for-parental-alienation-services-in-australia/) - I will commence PhD research into the social phenomenon of parental alienation in 2016.
- [Join The Parental Alienation Study Group](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/join-the-parental-alienation-study-group/) - Interested in research, study and advocacy on all aspects of parental alienation (PA)? Then you might consider joining the Parental Alienation Study Group (PASG).
- [The Growth of Parental Alienation Advocacy and Support Groups in Australia](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-growth-of-parental-alienation-advocacy-and-support-groups-in-australia/) - It is a measure of just how far parental alienation consciousness has evolved in Australia, that I can now say as an alienated parent of at least a decade now, that someone like me who had nowhere to go 10 years ago for support, who felt they were on their own, can now turn to multiple avenues for help.
- [Parental Alienation in Australia, A Year in Review](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-australia-review/) - More and more legal and family law professionals are familiar with parental alienation and are prepared to advocate for better interventions.
- [Anti Parental Alienation Protestor Kicks Own Goal](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/anti-parental-alienation-protestorl/) - Some family violence advocates claim that allegations by men that their ex partners have alienated their children from them are false.
- [Parental Alienation in the Australian Media!](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-in-the-australian-media/) - Parental Alienation is attracting more attention from mainstream Australian media. It is time to stop the silence about this form of child abuse!
- [Does Mediation Encourage and Collude with Parental Alienation and Child Abuse?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-mediation/) - Exploiting mediation and setting up the rejected parent as the one not cooperating with the mediation process is a classic tactic used by alienating parents.
- [Parental Alienation: CONTACT! The Sweet Feeling of Reunification](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-reunification/) - Nothing lifts my heart more than hearing from a client that they have made contact or received a response from their alienated, rejecting child.
- [Parental Alienation On The Air](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-media/) - With the “epidemic of family violence”, where are women’s groups who are able to support mothers whose children have been alienated from them by their fathers?
- [Is there an Epidemic of False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse and Family Violence?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/false-allegations-of-family-violence-child-sexual-abuse/) - Is there an Epidemic of False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse and Family Violence in the context of Parental Alienation?
- [Parental Alienation Australia and New Zealand (PAANZ) Launches Website](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-australia-and-new-zealand-paanz/) - NEWS RELEASE ALL OUTLETS SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 17 NOVEMBER 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAUNCH OF PARENTAL ALIENATION WEBSITE Parental Alienation Australia
- [Have You Been Accused of being an Alienating Parent?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/accused-of-being-alienating-parent/) - Are You an Alienating Parent? Have you Been Accused of Being an Alienating Parent? Are you wondering why your children are acting the way they do, particularly against the other parent? Are you worried about what might be happening to your children caught up in the conflict between you and your ex-partner? Are you wondering
- [Parental Alienation Gets Publicity In The Australian](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parentalalienation-publicity-the-australian/) - Check out this article in the Australian, Bonds of loss, on the 'Bonds of Loss' faced by alienated parents. This is a good article. It brings reality and validation of the torments faced by alienated parents who too often find their traumatic loss unrecognised and who feel blamed. All of these parents have been working in
- [Overturning The "Ban" on Overnight Stays for Alienated Toddlers](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/overnight-stays-for-alienated-toddlers/) - Two exciting articles written by Bettina Arndt are published online on The Age website today bringing vital news for divorced fathers. Here is the link to the main article – Empty days, lonely nights There is also a news story - Movement on father's overnight access - The Age (article has been removed) Please circulate this
- [Should I Tell My Alienated Children about Parental Alienation?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/should-i-tell-my-alienatedchildren/) - Many of the alienated parents I work with ask me this question; “if only my children knew what was being done to them they would realise that they love me and that I love them, should I tell them about Parental Alienation?” However, it is not that straightforward. Telling your children about Parental Alienation and
- [Parental Alienation and Extreme Alignment Are NOT THE SAME THING!](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parentalalienation-and-extremealignment/) - Extreme alignment is not parental alienation! Time and time again I see these terms confused with each other in family reports and in discussions with my clients. #FamilyLaw professionals, #consultants and #practitioners can be reluctant to assess Parental Alienation and would rather address the issue through a more benign lens of #alignment. Yet it is
- [Should Alienated Parents Abduct Their Alienated Children?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/abduct-alienatedchildren/) - Would you abduct your own children if you were legally advised to do so? Several clients (alienated or excluded parents) have brought to my attention legal advice they have received to “take their children back” when an alienating parent has contravened orders and taken the children into their care despite orders that the children were
- [Parental Alienation Services and Support is now available to Parents, Children and Practitioners through the Australian Family Law system ](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parentalalienation-services-and-support-is-now-available-to-parents-children-and-practitioners-through-the-australian-family-law-system/) - Thanks to the Victorian Family Law Pathways Network (VFLPN), Dialogue in Growth-Overcoming Parental Alienation is now listed on IREFER, a searchable directory of programs and services for families and practitioners available on your mobile device and via information kiosks at the Family Court in Melbourne. Just search for parental alienation' or look up counselling or
- [The Alienation Killer, Shared Care](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-shared-care/) - Conventional thinking suggests that levels of shared care need to be reduced in the face of high conflict post separation parenting to favour a single residential parent. This is based upon a premise that children are more sensitive to high conflict between their parents that forces them to choose between them than they are to
- [Should Alienating Parents Be Punished?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/should-alienatingparents-be-punished/) - Should the Australian Family Court consider sanctions against parents who continually flout court orders and compromise their children’s relationship with one of their parents? A Family Court judge in Canada threatens sanctions against an alienating parent, stating that this parent's continued alienation may cause the court to reconsider whether the children should remain in their
- [Slaughtering Sacred Family Law Cows: Splitting Alienating Siblings](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/splitting-alienatingsiblings/) - How are parents put into a terrible position of saving one child over another? That is Parental Alienation at work when one sibling alienates another. An alienated or excluded parent then has to choose whom to save. Several times now clients have presented me with extreme situations where they are tenuously holding onto a relationship
- [Happy 'Alienated Fathers Day'](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/happy-alienatedfathers-day/) - Welcome to the oxymoron of #FathersDay 2014. It is just like any other Fathers Day for alienated dads-another day where they are reminded how they have been deleted from their children’s lives. Maybe a ‘replacement’ dad is receiving the accolades and power tools that they used to receive. Many alienated dads receive various invitations to
- [Parental Alienation - Faster Than The Speed of Love](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parentalalienation-faster-than-love/) - Children can be alienated too quickly for a parent to respond in time. Alienating parents know their children are more susceptible to alienation than they are to love.
- [“Parental Alienation Becomes a Successful Tactic”, Parental Alienation and False Allegations Discussed in The Australian Senate](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-false-allegations/) - Former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Senator John Madigan addresses the Senate on the use of false allegations to deny a parent contact with a child, and the 2012 changes to the Family Law Act (FLA) that facilitate this.
- [Are Mothers and Children being Silenced in the Family Court?](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-mothers-family-law/) - Parental alienation as a form of emotional and psychological child abuse and family violence. False allegations of abuse and parental alienation leave our children at risk and degrade the integrity of people and children who make appropriate claims.
- [Parental Alienation at the APS College of Counselling Psychologists Conference 2015](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/parental-alienation-aps-conference-2015/) - Parental alienation:Responding to deliberate ruptures of children's loving parental relationships' at the Australian Psychological Society counselling psychologist conference in February 2015.
- [The ‘Irritant Factor’ Approach: Using Seasons Greetings to Undermine the Delusional Relationship between Alienated Children and their Alienating Parent.](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/the-irritant-factor-approach-parental-alienation/) - The absence of alienated children at this time is keenly felt. The same questions come around again. What if you became the ‘irritant factor’?

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- [Resources](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/resources/) - Interviews and presentations about parental alienation. General information.
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- [Responding To Alienated Children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/responding-to-alienated-children/) - You need some external support to maintain a grounding in reality. Alienating parents use your children as a weapon against you.
- [How Parental Alienation affects Children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/parental-alienation-affects-children/) - It seems implausible that destroying the love a child has for a parent can be harmless. It is possible that children subjected to alienating behaviour may suffer the following characteristics, as they are growing up: 1. A nagging and gnawing feeling of loss for the other parent that may never be reconciled while the alienating
- [Identifying Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/identifying-parental-alienation/) - Parental Alienation is one of the most serious forms of child abuse yet goes largely un-recognised in Australia as a form of child abuse.
- [Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/parental-alienation/) - I have first hand experience of the process how a parent, can lose contact with their children due to Parental Alienation.
- [Parental Alienation Services](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/services/parental-alienation-counselling-and-consulting/) - How parental alienation consulting can help you: I work with alienated or rejected (excluded) parents, alienated children, protective parents (who might be accused of parental alienation) and alienating parents to heal ruptured bonds with their children or parents, to reunite alienated parents and children, to reform non-alienating relationships and to 'let go' of alienated children.
- [Engaging with Family Law Expert Witnesses](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/services/pa-family-law-counselling/) - How I Can Help You with Family Assessments The best way I can help you is by not providing you with legal advice. I am not a lawyer and you may already have legal counsel. I can work with you to help you to understand and leverage legal or psychological material upon which the Family
- [Introduction to Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/introduction-to-parental-alienation/) - In intact family situations and post separation and divorce shared care arrangements It is generally in the children’s best interest and indeed normal for children to desire and enjoy a relationship with both their parents. However, in some instances this is not the case. When a parent is deficient, there may be sufficient reasons for
- [About](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/about-2/) - Go to About Stan to find out who I am. This may help you decide if you and I can work together for your benefit. Mission, Vision and Values is the expression of who I am and how I work with you. These are the criteria that help me decide whether I am doing the 'right thing'
- [Presentations](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/resources/presentations/) - 2018 Parental Alienation: At the Intersection of Family Law, Social Science and Lived Experience-FLPN When Children are Forced to Reject a Parent Whom They Love-University of Adelaide A Hopeful Presentation on Reunification after a History of Parental Alienation2014 Responding to Parental Alienation for Practitioners-APS (Australian Psychological Society) College of Counselling Psychologists.
- [For Alienated Children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/alienated-children/) - I am an Alienated Child I am an Adult Child of Parental Alienation I have lost contact with or have been Alienated from One of My Parents And now, if you are reading this, maybe you have realised that one of your parents has lied to you, used you against the other parent, used you
- [Stepfamily Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/stepfamily-alienation/) - Are you in a step-family, blended or curdled family or as the Europeans call it, a patchwork family? Are you having trouble with an alienating ex-partner?
- [The Parental Alienation Spectrum](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/alienation-spectrum/) - This is informed from the work by Kelly and Johnston (2001). However, I have made significant re-formulations of their work, summarised below. Please click the diagram to enlarge and read it, hit the return button to come back here. Each type of relationship is a whole attachment system and includes elements of its preceding type. At
- [Differentiating Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/information/differentiating-affiliation-parental-alienation/) - Differentiating Affiliation and Parental Alienation With acknowledgment and thanks to Kelly and Johnson (2001) Please click diagram to enlarge and read it, hit the return button to come back here. Positive Relationship Between Parents and Children-Ambivalent and Accepting Affinity Equal affinity with both parents The child has positive relationships with both parents, child wants to be
- [No Access](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/no-access/)
- [Mission Vision and Values](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/about-2/mission-vision-and-values-2/) - Mission and Vision To be a leading educator and advocate for parental alienation with parents, children, my peers and society at large. To support with the development and application of appropriate interventions and programmes the reconnection and reunification of parents and children affected by ruptures in their relationships in which alienation may be a factor.
- [Policies](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/services/policies/) - Please take the time to review Dialogue in Growth policy on advocacy and support groups. Since the outset, Dialogue in Growth has taken a role in raising consciousness about parental alienation in Australasia. There have been significant development in raising awareness and in the growth of advocacy and support groups, entities and organisations. This has necessitated Dialogue

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- [What happens when men become alienated from their children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/3286/?tmstv=1784282218)
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- [Response to UN Special Rapporteurs Call for Input](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/2885/?tmstv=1784282219)
- [A Rational Voice on Parental Alienation, False Allegations and Family Law](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/2779/?tmstv=1784282219)
- [Working with Alienating Parents](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/1161/?tmstv=1784282219) - Therapy with Alienating Parents. Rehabilitating moderately alienating parents. Helping recognise the abusive impact of their actions upon their children.
- [How I can Help  You with Family Law and Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/1151/?tmstv=1784282219) - How a specialist Parental Alienation Consultant can help you
- [Tales from the Front Line-Overcoming Parental Alienation](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/1157/?tmstv=1784282219) - Parent child reunification, parental alienation solutions
- [Saying Goodbye to Say Hello-Letting Go of Your Alienated Children](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/558/?tmstv=1784282219) - How to let go of alienated children when you have done everything you can to reunify with them. How to let go and keep pathways open to the possibility of change. whilst protecting yourself and keeping your alienated child accountable.
- [Sample Letting Go Letter](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/571/?tmstv=1784282219) - Letting go of alienated children-when nothing has changed and you have done all that you could to reunify with your alienated child.
- [Common Mistakes Target Parents Should Avoid](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/1147/?tmstv=1784282219) - Common Mistakes Target Parents Should Avoid
- [Parental Alienation in the Australian News.  Get it Now!](https://dialogueingrowth.com.au/download/620/?tmstv=1784282219) - Parental Alienation is attracting more attention from mainstream Australian media. It is time to stop the silence about this form of child abuse!

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