Excerpts: "But many forms of child abuse for instance occur in private. Unless the assessment is thorough - going, rigid refusal of visits can look unreasonable. History is not enough,".

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Excerpts: "But many forms of child abuse for instance occur in private. Unless the assessment is thorough - going, rigid refusal of visits can look unreasonable. History is not enough,".

Furthermore, Kelly and Johnston state that most children who are subjected to "alienating behavior" do not reject the other parent, but may be more or less psychologically disturbed by the conflict and pain of their parents and others in their social system. This takes us outside the realm of alienation and into the realm with which all practitoners in the feild are familiar - children suffering because, as Sandra Berns 26 puts it - their parents are "behaving badly". In these cases it would seem more appropriate to drop the term alienation altogether and take each case on its merits," by  Achimovich, Lois. (2003)

 

Achimovich, Lois. (2003). Parental Alienation Syndrome Revisited. Paper presented at the Child Sexual Abuse: Justice Response or Alternative Resolution Conference convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology and held in Adelaide, 1-2 May 2003.

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