What Can Alienation Advocates Do to be Accepted In The Broader Community of Professionals
Robert A. Simon, Ph.d
Robert A. Simon, Ph.d
Advocates of Parental Alienation strongly believe that alienation presents a very real risk to children, they feel that they’ve learned how to identify it and how to intervene. Yet, PA advocates are frustrated and even puzzled by why their viewpoint, methods and science has not been broadly adopted by the family law community.
This lecture, given by along time proponent for the broad ecological model of understanding parent child contact problems, will attempt to address some of the problems in the conceptualization, “diagnosis” and treatment of alienation as seen by those outside the alienation community. These include heuristic issues, the nature of research promulgated by alienation advocates, some serious ethical concerns amongst prominent advocate/practitioners and a failure to earnestly think broadly and look broadly at parent child contact problems. The goal is to establish dialogue, find points of agreement and work towards amore broadly accepted theories and practices in the area of parent child contact problems.