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Fear Reaction to Displeasing the Alienating Parent: The Fourth Ingredient of Parental Alienation

10/12/2016

 
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This is the fourth in a series of posts devoted to discussion of the four criteria found in cases where parental alienation is present.

As a reminder, these posts are based on an article written on this subject several years ago. The particular posts is based on what I have described as a Fear Reaction on the part of the Alienated Child to Displeasing the Alienating Parent. Of the four criteria, this one is the most psychologically based one. 

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Deterioration in the Parent Child Relationship: The Third Ingredient of Parental Alienation

10/3/2016

 
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This is the third in a series of four posts devoted to the four behavioral criteria that are all present in cases of parental alienation.

These criteria were first described in an article authored by myself and family attorney, Michael Walsh. The article was first published in the Florida Bar Journal and then was republished as the lead article in the Minnesota Bar Journal.

I am told that it also found its way into a Supreme Court ruling in Israel regarding parental alienation. I think the interest in this is related to the difficulty in identifying if parental alienation is going on or if it is not. To this very day, when I am contacted by a parent or attorney about a case where parental alienation is believed to be present, I still rely on these four criteria to satisfy myself that such may likely be the case. While the template that these criteria is not foolproof, it is at least some sort of reasonably and reliable measure to assist in the ruling in or ruling out of its presence.

But enough backstory. The subject of today’s post is the third criteria, Deterioration in the Relationship between the Targeted Parent and the Child(ren).

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False Allegations of Abuse: The Second Ingredient of Parental Alienation

9/26/2016

 
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This is the second in a series of four posts devoted to the four criteria that are found in parental alienation cases.

As a reference point to this, I would remind the reader that this series of posts is related to an article authored by myself and a Florida Attorney, Michael Walsh.

The original purpose of the article was to provide Family Law attorneys with a kind of template as to what to look for in these cases. It was written in such a way that one could potentially review the file and make a fairly good speculative guess as to the presence or absence of parental alienation. I made the point in that article that some or even three of these criteria could be found in high conflict cases of divorce and post divorce, and still not be parental alienation.

My point was that, in my opinion, all four must be present for there to be parental alienation. 

​Even though this article was written from a qualitative point of view rather than from a quantitative perspective, I still believe that it is accurate. I have yet to see a parental alienation case without all four being present. That is the back story. The subject of this post is the second of these criteria, which is False Allegations of Abuse.

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Access and Visitation Blocking: The First Ingredient of Parental Alienation

9/19/2016

 
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This is the first of four weekly posts regarding the four criteria which are present in cases where Parental Alienation is present.

These posts are derived from an article that was published in the Florida Bar Journal in 1999. Since that time, we have learned quite a bit, and it seemed fitting to update those original thoughts.

The first criterion that inhabits virtually all parental alienation cases is Access and Visitation Blocking.

I believe the most important thing to understand about this criterion is that it occupies a vast continuum of possibilities. On the most extreme end would be the overt and purposeful blocking of access to one’s children by what will end up being the alienating parent. This extreme and unsubtle version of this criterion would be that alienating parent refusing to deliver or produce the children when the allotted access time occurs. Perhaps surprisingly, this extreme expression of this kind of access blocking is more the exception than the rule, since it is easy to spot and confront.


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    Dr. Bone is an experienced consultant for cases involving Parental Alienation and has spent over 25 years working with high conflict divorce as a therapist, expert witness, mediator, evaluator and consultant, both nationally and internationally. 

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