tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948856640474134685.post2682976744573938578..comments2023-08-02T07:46:02.261-07:00Comments on Parental Alienation Dynamics: Q & A: Origins of the Child's AngerDr. Craig Childresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263643415731907641noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948856640474134685.post-91491795467335223332012-01-05T21:39:45.069-08:002012-01-05T21:39:45.069-08:00My primary suggestion is to document the child'...My primary suggestion is to document the child's ongoing rejection. My secondary suggestion would be to remain calm and pleasantly supportive of the children's coming to their scheduled time with you. Assert that your time with them is valuable and important to you and that it is the agreed upon arrangement. "Everyone's agreed to this, sweetie. I'm sorry that you feel that way, but it's our time together now and I want to spend time with you, so you need to come along now." We cannot "force" people to do things without incurring bad side effects. Force is seldom a good thing. Calling the police is one way to force someone to do something. It's an option in these types of situations (and one typically recommended within the legal system), and I also understand your concerns about calling the police. What I would be doing from a legal perspective would be to continually frame the legal issue that, until the psychopathology in the family is effectively treated and resolved, Court orders for joint custody will essentially become de facto orders for sole custody to the alienating parent. I would then use incidents of child refusal to cooperate with Court orders as both evidence of the degree of psychopathology involved (i.e., the child is so over-empowered as to be able to effectively defy the Court) and as evidence that the Court's orders for joint custody are becoming de facto orders for sole custody to the alienating parent because of the Court's reluctance to establish the conditions necessary for effective treatment and resolution of the child's psychopathology. The follow-up argument is that effective treatment of an induced delusional disorder requires the child's separation from the source-origin of the delusional belief system during the period of treatment and until the induced delusional disorder is resolved.Dr. Craig Childresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263643415731907641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948856640474134685.post-85656247898970178992012-01-05T06:41:50.465-08:002012-01-05T06:41:50.465-08:00Hi Dr. Childress,
What are we to do when our alien...Hi Dr. Childress,<br />What are we to do when our alienated children (mine are teenage girls) are refusing to cooperate and come during scheduled access time?<br />Do we give them space, plead and begg or try and some how force the access? I really do not want to call the police for the sake of the kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com