Does the therapist follow their profession’s ethical guidelines and receive continuing education, mentoring, or supervision in areas in which they have no training? Otherwise, they can make this already difficult situation much worse.
It is beyond my comprehension how so many mental health professionals can entirely miss the extreme psychopathology involved in attachment-based “parental alienation.” I am truly stunned.
Let me describe just one example, the “exclusion demand” symptom made by children, in which the child demands that the targeted parent no long attends the child’s events.
The Exclusion Demand:
Child: “I don’t want you to come to my baseball games (school open house, dance recital, school awards ceremony, etc.). I get too anxious.”
This “exclusion demand” by the child is often followed with a statement that the child wants the targeted parent to show “respect” for the child’s feelings and “boundaries.”
The “exclusion demand” is among the more common symptoms of pathology displayed by the child in attachment-based “parental alienation.”
Extremely Severe Psychopathology
The “exclusion demand” is a symptom of extreme psychopathology. It floors me how mental health professionals can act…
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