I am thankful to the University of Adelaide, Australia and SAHMRI for hosting the parental alienation symposium in September 2017. In the video, I am presenting to a group of approximately 100 alienated parents, extended family members, legal and affiliated professionals and practitioners who have a stake (personal and professional) in … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation:Evidence Based Reunification Available in Australia
The first Family Bridges programme for Alienated Children and Families (FBAC) has been conducted in Australia under the orders of a Family Court in Australia. For this family, children can now enjoy a loving relationship with the parent from whom they were alienated, for the first time in many years. A team of accredited facilitators is … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation Symposium-Adelaide, Australia
For those who can, please join me at this free public symposium in Adelaide, Australia hosted by the Freemasons Foundation Centre, Freemasons Hospital, University of Adelaide For more details: Freemasons Foundation Centre. "This symposium aims to take a practical look at the issue of parental alienation and how family law legislation and … [Read more...]
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. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG when the state does not intervene when 'good enough' parents are rejected by their alienated children but a rehabilitated sex offender can gain access … [Read more...]
Hope for Reconnection and Reunification after Parental Alienation
I have just returned from participating in a symposium on parental alienation: “Parental Alienation: A Critical Problem for Families in Many Countries” presented at the International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2016) in Yokohama, Japan. Six of us representing Japan, U.S.A, Australia and Hong Kong had been working towards this symposium for over a … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: What is Wrong with Your Family Assessment?
Time and time again, rejected/alienated parents come to see me after an adverse or at best an ambivalent family assessment conducted by family consultants (custody evaluators). These parents are frustrated hurt and angry and indeed frightened for their children because it seems to them that family consultants make inadequate (or no) recommendations … [Read more...]
Alienated Children Ordered Into Juvenile Care: An Australian Perspective
As reported on 8 July, 2015 in Fox 2 News in Detroit, USA and 24 July 2015 in the Huffington Post, a US judge ordered adolescent and teenage children into juvenile ‘care’ for refusing to spend time with their alienated father, despite such contact being ordered by the court. In preceding hearings spanning at least 5 years, the father fought for the … [Read more...]
Anti Parental Alienation Protestor Kicks Own Goal
I presented on interventions for parental alienation at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) Conference on Saturday 28 February. It seems that my message about parental alienation was too important to ignore because to my pleasant surprise a protestor tried to hijack my presentation! The protestor attempted to hijack the presentation … [Read more...]
Does Mediation Encourage and Collude with Parental Alienation and Child Abuse?
Is it possible that the Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) process mandated by the Australian Family Law Act 1975 may inadvertently sanction parental alienation? Are parents at risk of undertaking mediation in a child abusive situation? Sometimes alienated and rejected parents tell me that they caught up in one or more rounds of Family Dispute … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation Australia and New Zealand (PAANZ) Launches Website
Parental Alienation Australia and New Zealand Pty. Ltd. (PAANZ) announce the launch of their Facebook page and website to help assist parents, children and families experiencing Parental Alienation and professionals dealing with the phenomenon of Parental Alienation. Parental Alienation occurs when one parent is unreasonably alienated from … [Read more...]
