Remarriage As A Trigger of Parental Alienation Syndrome

Warshak, Richard A.

doi:10.1080/01926180050081667

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“…Three peer reviewed PAS articles by Gardner were published that year, on topics such as how denial of PAS harms women (2002b), how the empowerment of children promotes the development of PAS (2002a), and the merits of using the term PAS versus the term parental alienation (2002c). An article on misdiagnosis of PAS by Warshak (2002) focused on improving diagnostic accuracy by identifying what specifically distinguishes PAS from other types of alienation.…”

Section: The Feminist and Child Advocate Criticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental Alienation Critics and the Politics of Science

Rand

2010

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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Section: The Feminist and Child Advocate Criticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental Alienation Critics and the Politics of Science

Rand

2010

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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“…For other adolescents, there may not be any association between mother-to-adolescent negative disclosure about the father and perceptions of the quality of the father-adolescent relationship. These adolescents may either deliberately or unintentionally keep their relationship with their mother (as well as her complaints) closed off from influencing their relationship with their father (Warshak 2002); and/or their interactions with their father may be stable enough to prevent erosion due to maternal disclosure. For still other adolescents, there may be a positive relationship between mother-to-adolescent negative disclosure about the father and perceptions of the quality of the father-adolescent relationship.…”

Section: Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

Post-Divorce Maternal Disclosure and the Father–Adolescent Relationship: Adolescent Emotional Autonomy and Inter-Reactivity as Moderators

Kenyon

Koerner

2008

J Child Fam Stud

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Utilizing longitudinal data from a project that examined the post-divorce lives of mothers and adolescents, we addressed two questions: (a) Does exposure to negative maternal disclosure about the ex-husband/father impact adolescents' perceptions of the father-adolescent relationship? and (b) Are adolescents with low emotional autonomy and high emotional inter-reactivity especially vulnerable? Participants were 154 adolescents, who ranged in age from 12 to 18 years at wave two. Although there was no significant bivariate association between maternal negative disclosure about the father and father-adolescent relationship quality, boys' level of emotional autonomy and emotional inter-reactivity moderated the association between maternal negative disclosure and the father-adolescent relationship. As hypothesized, boys with lower levels of emotional autonomy and higher levels of emotional inter-reactivity vis-à-vis their mothers perceived a lower quality of relationship with their father when their mother frequently disclosed negatively about the ex-husband/father. Research and applied implications are discussed.

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“…If this occurs in a family where the remarried parent encourages a good relationship between the child and the ex-spouse, and if the child is not encouraged to refer to the ex by first name, we should not mistake it for an attempt to alienate the child. Indeed, feelings of jealousy, narcissism, and competition could trigger an overreaction to a child's calling a stepparent Mom or Dad (Warshak, 2000). This can take the form of a premature conclusion that a child is being brainwashed and lead to false accusations of parental alienation.…”

Section: Pejorative Labelingmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…These parents are usually remarried. They require the children to refer to their other parent by first name because they want the more familiar title, Mom or Dad, to be reserved for the stepparent (Warshak, 2000). One little girl said that her mother would not serve her dinner unless she called her stepfather Daddy and referred to her father by his first name.…”

Section: Pejorative Labelingmentioning

confidence: 98%