PAAO-US: "For the Sake of the Children"
We are the Productive Generation
Now we find ourselves in the second generation of parental alienation thinking. It is a productive period in which many professionals and parents are working together to make parental alienation more understandable, especially to those for whom it is still an unfamiliar term. We understand that it is not just one "bad" individual who maintains it, but a system in which everyone contributes to it, even at times, the targeted parent. Therefore, all these communities must work together with families to change it by creating a system that not only does not support it, but one which does not allow it. In fact, there may need to be sanctions against alienators the way that there are consequences for child abusers and perpetrators of domestic violence.
Cheated: (The story of a father who would not give up his children)
A DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT OF PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME (PAS)
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is the teaching of children of divorce or separation to harbor negative feelings and emotions toward the parent who generally does not have custody and does not reside in the same domicile. This is usually done in an effort for one parent to gain the respect and love of the children, while destroying the image and relationship of the absent parent. This phenomenon will generate feelings of hatred, ambivalence, and distance between children and the non-custodial parent. Our family court system does little to eliminate these occurrences, and although the parent affected is cheated of a normal relationship with the children, the real damage will manifest itself within the children.
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Parent Alienation Syndrome:
Its Time Has Come
- by Dr. Andre
Published in The California Psychologist -
included with permission from The California Psychologist
and was first printed in the Sept/Oct issue 2005.
Most psychologists agree the least understood -- and often most destructive -- type of child abuse is emotional. Considered the most difficult abuse to diagnose and prevent, its scars are not physical but invisible, with profound, far-reaching consequences.
There is growing interest in a less-well-known type of emotional child abuse known as Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). “PAS is a serious form of child abuse” (Cartwright, 1998) with a general consensus regarding the most prominent behavioral symptoms (Gardner, 1989; Rand, 1997; Darnall, 2001; Kelly and Johnston, 2001; Warshak, 2001; Major, 2004; Andre, 2004) defining the mental illness.
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind
An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents.
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the other parent. This book examines the impact of PAS on adults and offers strategies and hope for dealing with the long-term effects.
Dr. Baker is pleased to offer a companion to Breaking the Ties that Bind. The new e-book is titled "Beyond the High Road" and is available for direct purchase for $9.95.
This e-book provides you with specific advice for handling 17 of the most common parental alienation strategies.
Parental Alienation Syndrome
The Parent/Child Disconnect
Social Work Today
November/December 2008 Issue
Vol. 8 No. 6 P. 26
To Your Child, You Are A Hero!
Jake's Closet straddles genres, combining the thrills of suspense and an elegantly woven portrait of childhood. The result is an eye opening and important film that explores the loss of innocnece that comes with divorce. In a debut feature film, director Shelli Ryan delivers a unique and thought provoking film that speaks to anyone who's ever been through the distress of being a kid.
A Kidnapped Mind: A Mother's Heartbreaking Memoir of Parental Alienation
by Pamela Richardson (Author)
"I wrote A Kidnapped Mind to try and help other parents, and to try to make a difference. It is my last gift to beautiful, brown eyed Dash. Other books about Parental Alienation Syndrome have been written, but mine is the only one written directly from true experience. To get the message out, I wanted to put a human face on this important issue"
Children subjected to Parental Alienation are taught, daily, via denigration and outright lies, to believe that the other parent is unfair, uncaring and unreliable. After a while the script has that parent becoming idiotic and stupid, then evil and dangerous. Eventually they are transformed into someone worthy of complete and permanent rejection. A child assimilates the destruction of that once deeply loving relationship through self-loathing, and rebellion, isolation and crushing depression follow soon after. This is child abuse.
Dr. Reena Sommer, renowned divorce and custody consultant, said at the May, 2006, book launch for A Kidnapped Mind:
“Parental Alienation Syndrome is not about the politics of gender, nor is it about the amount of support owing or about legal posturing. Parental Alienation is about parents who place their own selfish needs above those of their defenseless children and in doing so, they deny them their right to love and be loved by both parents.”
Have You Seen My MotherbyBryan Lee McGlothinA true story of parental kidnap
Have you Seen My Mother by Bryan Lee McGlothin is a handsome 232 page hardbound book with dust jacket and 16 pages of color illustrations. Have You Seen My Mother is now available to add to your personal library.
Have You Seen My Mother is now available at your local book store!
A portion of every sale of Have You Seen My Mother is donated to Take Root.
Have You Seen My Mother is now available at your local book store!
Children Held Hostage
by Stanley S. Clawar (Author)
Publisher: American Bar Association (June 25, 2003)
Product Description
This is the first book to provide objective methods for establishing that a child has been brainwashed by one parent against another. It is based on a ten-year study of 700 cases in the authors' counseling and evaluative work with children of divorced couples.
About the Author
Dr. Stanley S. Clawar is an Associate Professor at Rosemont College, an Adjunctive Staff Member of Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry (Fort Washington, PA), and Director of Walden Counseling and Therapy Center in Bryn Mawr, PA. He is a Certified Clinical Sociologist, Sex Therapist, Sex Educator, Family Mediator, and Hypnotherapist.
by Stanley S. Clawar (Author)
This is the first book to provide objective methods for establishing that a child has been brainwashed by one parent against another. It is based on a ten-year study of 700 cases in the authors' counseling and evaluative work with children of divorced couples.
About the Author
Dr. Stanley S. Clawar is an Associate Professor at Rosemont College, an Adjunctive Staff Member of Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry (Fort Washington, PA), and Director of Walden Counseling and Therapy Center in Bryn Mawr, PA. He is a Certified Clinical Sociologist, Sex Therapist, Sex Educator, Family Mediator, and Hypnotherapist.
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