For those who think I am just ranting on here, yes I am a little because parental alienation (PA) rapidly leads to PAS (Parental Alienation Syndrome) where the child actually begins to believe and scarily, contribute to the denigration of the absent parent. For those that arent fully aware of what it entails.... Who discovered Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)? In association with this growing child-custody litigation, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Richard A. Gardner first identified Parental Alienation Syndrome in the 1980s. He noticed a dramatic increase in the frequency of a disorder rarely observed before, that of programming or brainwashing of a child by one parent to denigrate the other parent. However, the disorder wasnt just brainwashing or programming by a parent. It was confounded by what Dr. Gardner calls self-created contributions by the child in support of the alienating parents campaign of denigration against the targeted parent. He called this disorder Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), a new term that includes the contribution to the problem made by both the parent and the child. What is PAS? Gardners definition of PAS is: 1. The Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. 2. Its primary manifestation is the childs campaign of denigration against a parent, a campaign that has no justification. 3. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) of a parents indoctrinations and the childs own contributions to the vilification of the targeted parent. Excerpted from: Gardner, R.A. (1998). The Parental Alienation Syndrome, Second Edition, Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics, Inc. What is the childs part in PAS? Gardner notes that the PAS is more than brainwashing or programming, because the child has to actually participate in the denigrating of the alienated parent. This is done in primarily the following eight ways: The child denigrates the alienated parent with foul language and severe oppositional behavior. The child offers weak, absurd, or frivolous reasons for his or her anger. The child is sure of himself or herself and doesnt demonstrate ambivalence, i.e. love and hate for the alienated parent, only hate. The child exhorts that he or she alone came up with ideas of denigration. The independent-thinker phenomenon is where the child asserts that no one told him to do this. The child supports and feels a need to protect the alienating parent. The child does not demonstrate guilt over cruelty towards the alienated parent. The child uses borrowed scenarios, or vividly describes situations that he or she could not have experienced. Animosity is spread to the friends and/or extended family of the alienated parent. In severe cases of parent alienation, the child is utterly brain- washed against the alienated parent. The alienator can truthfully say that the child doesnt want to spend any time with this parent, even though he or she has told him that he has to, it is a court order, etc. The alienator typically responds, There isnt anything that I can do about it. Im not telling him that he cant see you. Sound familiar?
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:03:59 +0000
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