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The PA Experts

Karen Woodall

Visit Karen Woodall HERE.

Based on successful work with many families around the world, Karen Woodall will share with you the deep knowledge of how to recover children from the nightmare landscape of psychological splitting. Karen has helped families to rebuild health and wellbeing with children of all ages and has developed a structural approach to working with alienation which is easily translated into strategies which can be used by parents. 

Erasing Family

Watch the Documentary and visit Erasing Family HERE.

Stream for Free on Tubi and YouTube!

In North America, over 25 MILLION PARENTS are being erased from their children’s lives after divorce and separation. The ERASING FAMILY documentary follows young adults fighting to reunite with their broken families. Happy endings are possible! The film ends with children and parents being reunited on screen. Erasing Family shows programs that encourage mediation and shared parenting (joint custody) which will prevent future childhood trauma, making divorce and separation less costly both financially and emotionally. The film has been endorsed by the American Psychological Association, Conflict Resolution Expert Bill Eddy and most importantly has reunited kids and parents.

 

Hotline for erased parents and kids. TEXT HELP to 1(865)4FAMILY between 8am-10pm ET to get emotional support. This text line is run by Erasing Family Volunteers. They cannot provide legal advice.

Amy J.L. Baker

Visit Amy Baker HERE.

Dr. Baker is a nationally recognized expert in parental alienation, and parent-child relationships, especially children of divorce, and emotional abuse of children. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University. She is the author or co-author of 10 books and over 120 academic articles on topics related to children's well-being. 

Ryan Thomas

Visit Ryan Thomas of Ryan Thomas Speaks HERE.

Welcome, this is the place where we give you a behind-the-scenes perspective on what your child is going through and exactly what to say and do to reach them during and after a divorce.

I’m Ryan Thomas, an adult child of divorce and parental alienation and my goal is to help as many parents and families as I can.

We’ve worked with parents in over 25 countries with our real-life strategies. Our coaching programs are designed to meet you wherever you are on this journey. Whether you're at the initial stage of helping your child cope with the upheaval of divorce, ('Help Them Through'), facing a child who's becoming distant, and you want to keep them close ('Keep Them Close'), or dealing with full-on rejection and need to help Get Them Back ('Get Them Back'), we have a roadmap for you. And for you, the parent, 'Life Beyond Hurt' is crafted to help you reclaim your emotional well-being, confidence, and identity.

While your attorney protects your legal rights, we focus on the daily interactions and communications that can help you save your relationship and help your child get through the most emotionally traumatizing even in their life.

We're here to help you every step of the way!

Richard Warskak

Visit Richard Warshak HERE and his blog HERE.

Dr. Richard Warshak’s groundbreaking research, trenchant challenges to gender stereotypes, and passionate advocacy for children have made him one the world’s most respected authorities on divorce, child custody, and the psychology of alienated children. As a White House consultant, and through his writing, speeches, legislative and courtroom testimony, videos, and workshops, Dr. Warshak has had a profound impact on the law and well-being of families where parents live apart from each other.

Craig Childress

Visit Craig Childress's blog HERE and his free Foundations course HERE.

In this course, Foundations, Dr. Childress educates parents and professionals to better understand the appropriate and accepted constructs of child psychological abuse. Get started today with this free training from Dr. Craig Childress - brought to you by the Conscious Co-Parenting Institute.

Notable Resources about Childress

From https://www.beyondparentalalienation.com/resources/dr-craig-childress-psy-d/

 

3 things that he said early on in the videos I watched that stood out:

  1. This is not a “syndrome” up for debate. It is a cluster of very observable and verifiable behaviors exhibited by a child who is being systematically abused to subvert his or her own natural instincts to bond with both parents.

  2. The mental health and legal system is, at the moment, not equipped to deal with what is actually going on and,

  3. The way to save your own child or children is by helping to save all the children.

The Collected Works of Dr. Craig Childress

https://dr-childress-index.droppages.com/

 

If you are wondering "where do I start?", read this page.

"Foundations"

At some point you will want to purchase and read a copy of Dr. Childress' book An Attachment-Based Model of Parental Alienation: Foundations. It is very clinical, so prepare yourself by becoming familiar with the material listed below before deciding if you want to go ahead and get the book.

Read the introductory chapter to An Attachment-Based Model of Parental Alienation: Foundations

Read this list:

Top 15 Things Targeted Parents Need to Know About Attachment-Based Parental Alienation (AB-PA)

Read this article:

Parental Alienation: The Attachment Theory by The Wallin Family Law Group

This is an excellent, easy to understand article about the basics of Attachment-Based Parental Alienation. It is not written by Dr. Childress himself, but the author admits that 95% of the article is the thoughts, ideas, and words of Dr. Childress.

Watch these videos:

  1. Dr. Childress' two Masters Series lectures:

    1. Parental Alienation: An Attachment-Based Model (1:46:03)

    2. Treatment of Attachment-Based Parental Alienation (1:47:08)

  2. Dr. Childress Speaks With the Child (1:05:11)

  3. The Empowerment videos (2:08:51)

Read Dr. Childress' FAQ document:

Consultation with Dr. Childress

This is a list of answers to frequently asked questions that Dr. Childress receives from targeted parents.

Read these documents / blog posts:

  1. Gardner's Failed Model of PAS

  2. Three Levels of Analysis

  3. Trauma Reenactment in Parental Alienation

  4. Diagnosing Parental Alienation

  5. Key Concept: Splitting

  6. Subjective Reality of the Narcissistic/(Borderline) Parent

  7. Nothing New - No Excuse

  8. Parenting and Protest Behavior

  9. The Regulatory Other

  10. On Unicorns, the Tooth Fairy, and Reunification Therapy

  11. Therapy: Initial Considerations

  12. Reunification Therapy for Attachment-Based Parental Alienation

  13. Understanding the Child's Experience

  14. Assessing Parenting

  15. Assessment of Parental Capacity

  16. Court Consideration of Adolescent Wishes

  17. The Appointment of Minor's Counsel Must Stop

  18. Child Custody Evaluation

  19. The Hostage Metaphor

  20. You Are All in This Together

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