We no longer provide the Building Family Bridges™ Workshop and the adjunct After Care Protocol in Australia. We previously provided these services for Family Law in Australia to remediate child psychological abuse and severely alienated parent-child relationships. The principal reasons are: Adverse Changes to the Australian Family Law Act … [Read more...]
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. These services include family law mediation, counselling, family violence consultation andProcontact centre services to which parents and … [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...]
Important Changes for Parental Alienation Services in Australia
***I will be closing my practice in Melbourne, Australia at the end of 2015 and relocating to Queensland where I will commence PhD research into the social phenomenon of parental alienation*** Firstly, I have been heartened by the large number of congratulatory messages after having clocked over five years specialising in the field of parental … [Read more...]
Join The Parental Alienation Study Group
Parental Alienation Study Group Awareness of parental alienation (PA) continues to grow in Australia and New Zealand. Those of you in Australia, New Zealand interested in research, study and advocacy on all aspects of parental alienation (PA) might consider joining the Parental Alienation Study Group (PASG). The PASG now has more than 240 … [Read more...]
The Growth of Parental Alienation Advocacy and Support Groups in Australia
When I first started specialising as a practitioner in the field of parental alienation in Australia, some years ago now, there was, as far as I could tell, no one else involved in providing dedicated support, intervention, education and advocacy in this field. I, and others like me had nowhere to go for support. Indeed, there was no franchise … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation On The Air
“Great interview with Australian PA expert Counsellor & Psychotherapist Stan Korosi this Thursday on our website Dad's On The Air & on iTunes." Stay tuned for my interview about parental alienation on the community radio network “Dad's On The Air”. Check out the 'Scourge of Parental Alienation on Dads On The Air' to hear the interview by … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: CONTACT! The Sweet Feeling of Reunification
Nothing lifts my heart more than a telephone call, email or text from a client informing me that they have made contact or received a response from their alienated, rejecting child. This could be after some months or many years and whatever the elapsed time it is the same feeling of relief and joy at reunification and relationship; rejected … [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 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...]