Overcoming Parental Alienation & Preserving Parent-Child Bonds: Parental alienation involves systematic interference with a child's fundamental right to love and bond with both fit parents. Under the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, states cannot permit litigation delays or adversarial maneuvers to sever established family relationships (Troxel v. Granville). Fit parents must assert constitutional boundaries immediately, requiring trial courts to apply strict scrutiny before restricting parenting time or enabling parental alienation.
Parental alienation is not junk science. Professor Ron Berglas says that the only reason that parental alienation has been able to be used by abusive parents is because the mental health professional has not properly been trained to identify parental alienation. Watch as Dr. Berglas testifies to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to urge them to make 7-hour course of parental alienation training of all mental health professionals and to include as a listing in the DSM. Berglas claims that this is "now an acceptedbyproduct of high conflict divorce" and that "in fact, by refusing to take action we are facilitating the destruction of our children'sright to love both parents equally without quilt." And that "unless we begin to require training of these professionals that we will be consigning children to a lifetime of trauma.""
The PASymposium2017 will be offering training with continuing education units for professionals in April. "Parental alienation is not about parents acting badly. It is about one parent acting badly."
Joan Kloth Zanard, PAS-Intervention
Linda Gottlieb, End Parental Alienation
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