NOTES ON CHILD ESTRANGEMENT AND PARENTAL ALIENATION
by Dr. Mark Roseman, Founder and CEO
When the bonds of affection between a child and a parent is inexplicably torn and made highly volatile, there is need for immediate examination and focus on the causes.
If parents are separated and or divorced, then research shows there is great reason for children to become victimized as pawns in the process of building the wall between both parents, excluding a parent from the child’s life, and for brainwashing the child to dampen and vacate any obvious signs of former (and current affection) for the absent, or non-custodial parent.
When this happens, the necessity for psychological or forensic evaluation of the at home, or custodial parent should be requested by the Court and or the GAL (Guardian Ad Litem). Additionally, it is critical that the child be evaluated by an especially trained psychotherapist who does not attend to the statements necessarily of the child. Instead, this therapist must explore the reasons for the child’s behaviors.
If we ask “Why” when children – of any age – show complete disregard, hatred and enmity for the absent parent, then these questions of prior relationship quality must be examined as well as what interceded in this bedeviled relationship now demonstrated.
If you feel that your children have been brainwashed against you and believe the other parent particularly has carried out these overt efforts to do so no matter how unconscious they may seem, then you are a targeted parent for it is you who is decided to no longer be wanted in the family structure.
There are many things of course that parents face when confronted with Alienation. Here are a few:
- Individual counseling
- Child Custody Coaching
- Family Law and Child Custody Consulting
- Family therapy
- Clinical evaluations
- Court ordered therapeutic supervised visitation
- Parenting plans and Family Mediation
- Targeted Parent Support Group
- Referrals
The Toby Center provides nearly all these services.
Mark David Roseman & Associates provides the Child Custody Coaching, Consulting, and Targeted Parent Support Groups.
Additionally, you may find Contemporary Family Magazine to be a valuable source of parental alienation interventions, treatment, field practice and legislation on a global level.
Dr. Mark David Roseman, BIO
Dr. Mark Roseman is the Founder/CEO of the Toby Center for Family Transitions.
An author, and international speaker, Dr. Roseman has worked with children and parents since 1998 when he served as an advocate for joint custody and served with David L. Levy, Esq, President Emeritus of the Children’s Rights Council (CRC) in Washington, DC. In 2002-2008, Roseman served as Assistant Director for Child Access Services for the CRC developing training for supervised visitation and opening visitation locations in metro DC.
Dr. Roseman frequently quotes America’s foremost pioneer in child psychiatry, Dr. Karl Menninger who stated that “What children see at home, they will do to society.” The Toby Center philosophy is that through assisting parents to be more confident and satisfied, their children will have a better opportunity to thrive.
A writer and Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE), Dr. Roseman has written for the American Journal of Family Law. His articles have appeared in the Huffington PostOnline and in his column, “Family Matters” has been published in 400 newspapers when a columnist with the Knight Ridder Tribune Syndicate. He is author of the research based Preserving Family Ties, An Authoritative Guide to Understanding Divorce and Child Custody (WestBow Press, 2018). He serves on the Editorial Board for the American Journal of Family Therapy.
