That’s just one excerpt from The American Journal of Family Therapy’s recent review of A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation. The review also cites author Mike Jeffries for, “providing the reader with a rational understanding of the risk factors that can be potentiated in the alienating parent as a result of the threat of abandonment. The reader is presented with a rational understanding of what could otherwise be an incomprehensible switch of loyalties by the child from being attuned to both parents to the child’s completely disregarding, denigrating, and rejecting the other parent and the other parent’s extended family.”
Written by Abe Worenklein, Ph.D., a Clinical Psychologist from Outremont, Quebec, the review also calls parental alienation a serious form of abuse. “Furthermore,” Worenklein wrote, “Jeffries’ and Davies’ accounts make it very clear that not only is an alienated child being robbed of his childhood but that the alienation should be seen as a serious form of psychological/emotional abuse that can impact significantly on future relationships and on the child’s development.”
The American Journal of Family Therapy published the review in Volume 38, Issue 3, 2010, pages 279-280, and online. The publication date is May 28, 2010.
The American Journal of Family Therapy is the incisive, authoritative, independent voice in an ever-changing field. The publication includes the latest techniques for treating families; theory on normal and dysfunctional family relationships; research on sexuality and intimacy; the effects of traditional and alternative family styles; and community approaches to family intervention. All articles in the publication undergo editorial screening and peer review.
A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation, co-authored by Michael Jeffries and Dr. Joel Davies, offers an insider’s perspective on how normal, healthy parent-child relationships can quickly go from hugs to heartbreak during high-conflict divorce and separation. The book was written to help alienated parents better understand and deal with their emotionally devastating experiences but it also educates legal and mental health professionals about this destructive family dynamic so they can help children maintain normal, healthy relationships with both parents.
The book is available at www.afamilysheartbreak.com, on Amazon, and through bookstores worldwide. For additional insight and information, join the book’s Facebook group at www.facebook.com (search: “A Family’s Heartbreak”).
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