"We Know What You Don't Know" Family Law and Family Violence: Outdated, Misled Family Law and family violence commentary in Australia relies on outdated and misleading concepts. Considering parental alienation as a form of coercive-controlling family violence and child psychological maltreatment requiring specific assessment and … [Read more...]
How Family Law Perpetuates in Alienation Abuse
Representing a parent's view about what is in their children's best interests is not about perpetuating alienation abuse. Alienating parents' behaviour may contradict their claims. Alienating parents may make you think they focus on their children's best interests. Yet, they may lead you to collaborate with parental alienation as a form of child … [Read more...]
False Allegations and Parental Alienation in Australian Family Law
False allegations may be used as a defence against parental alienation in Australian Family law. False allegations may include family violence, child sexual abuse, mental illness, and parental neglect. Targeted parents may need to allow the parents making false allegations to implicate themselves. Targeted parents are in danger from false claims … [Read more...]
Family Violence Orders: Should You Really Apply For Them?
In our work with targeted -alienated parents, we have found that alienating parents may allege family violence against them. They may subject them to multiple Family Violence Protection Orders to exclude them from a relationship with their children. Such orders include intervention orders, apprehended violence orders or violence restraining orders. … [Read more...]
CRASH! Parental Alienation, Family Violence and Family Law
I was invited to present on parental alienation and family law at a local chapter of the Family Law Pathway’s Network (FLPN). You may see this presentation below: Family law professionals, ranging from legal counsel, Independent Children's Lawyers (ICL) and family consultants struggle with parental alienation as a form of family violence … [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...]
Parental Alienation in Australia, A Year in Review
2014 has seen major developments in the depth and breadth of social, legal and therapeutic engagement with parental alienation. 5 or 6 years ago, I would advise people to take care what they would say to their legal counsel and other practitioners about parental alienation because of the general lack of knowledge and how even mentioning … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation at the APS College of Counselling Psychologists Conference 2015
I will be presenting on 'Parental alienation: Responding to deliberate ruptures of children's loving parental relationships' at the Australian psychological Society counselling psychologist conference in February 2015. Early bird registration is about to end! As a counselling psychologist you may also have a forensic or clinical … [Read more...]
