Dr. Craig Childress: Attachment Based "Parental Alienation" (AB-PA)
This pathology hides. It’s power comes from concealment.
The antidote is light. Everything in the open, everything disclosed. No secrets.
This is the time. We know what the pathology is and we need to make it stop. Now. Today. No excuses. Professional psychology can absolutely solve this pathology. It requires professional knowledge and expertise, but we can absolutely solve it.
So why aren’t we? A: Because of profound and rampant professional ignorance and incompetence in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of attachment-related family pathology surrounding divorce.
Clinical Definition 1: Family Systems
The child’s “triangulation” into the spousal conflict through the formation of a “cross-generational coalition” with one parent against the other parent, that results in an “emotional cutoff” in the child’s relationship with the targeted parent.
Clinical Definition 2: Attachment Trauma
The trans-generational transmission of attachment trauma from the childhood of a narcissistic/(borderline) parent to the current family relationships, mediated…
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