
168: Psychology or pseudoscience? Parental alienation and the role of the psychologist, with Richard Ager and Clare Ciborowska
Law Pod UK
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What Is Parental Alienation?
Parental alienation is a situation where one parent, either deliberately or just becauseof they're functioning, alienates the child from the other parent. It can often happen as it starts off very slowly, and it takes place over a number of years. A parent planting the idea that the other parent is bad, using the term very loosely into the minds of the children, can cause the most serious emotional and psychological harm to the child. But also that parenting is part of the fundamental building blocks of a child's background and history. And for one parent to damage that in the mind of the child can create lasting, lifelong difficulty,. which will need to be addressed it is caught in time.
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