Attachment-based Parental Alienation: Foundations
By Dr. Craig Childress (2015)
This book brilliantly describes one of our country's most severe and widespread public health issues. I've stood by helplessly for 10 years watching it destroy children and parents. Childress puts the scientific pieces together of this clinical phenomenon traditionally called "parental alienation." And leads the mental health and legal professional to an immediate solution. A literal bible for family's struggling with the predictable and preventable tragedy of how Narcissistic/borderline personality disordered people think, feel, and relate to their partners and children. A MUST read for anyone in the fields of high conflict divorce, borderline/narcissistic personality disorder, attachment trauma, CPS, Family Court, ALL mental health and pediatric practitioners especially Family and Marriage Therapy and parenting, domestic violence and child maltreatment etc. Buy an extra and give it to someone else who needs it, the list is endless.
I agree 100% Kay. Childress is right on. I've purchased multiple copies of his book. And it I an epidemic. Maybe partly symptomatic of other narcissism in society at large.
ReplyDelete"maybe partly" is an understatement. NPD and BPD have been increasing in our society. One reason is that high-conflict family courts do not understand that placing a child with a parent who has a personality disorder skyrockets the risk that the child will express the disorder in his or her adulthood.
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