CHILDMYTHS

The "Childmyths" blog is a spin-off of Jean Mercer's book "Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths & Misunderstandings"(Sage, 2015; third edition). The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people's decisions about childrearing-- for example, beliefs about day care, about punishment, about child psychotherapies, and about adoption. See also http://thestudyofnonsense.blogspot.com

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Alternative Psychotherapies Include Some Parental Alienation Interventions

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  Since the 1990s, the movement toward evidence-based medicine has been associated with a term for medical practices that are not evidence-b...

NYT Lets “Relinquishment Trauma” Pass

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  Every adoption is simultaneously a triumph or a tragedy for most or even all of the particpnats. The New York Times op-ed by Elizabeth Spi...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Parental Alienation and “Science Claimers”, or, “I’m Rubber, You’re Glue”

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  In a webinar (“Parental Alienating Behaviors and Coercive Control: The One and the Same” [sic]) sponsored by the “family access” organizat...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Two of These Things Belong Together: Evidence Based Treatment, Evidence Based Practice, Evidence Informed Intervention

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  Yes, although all these things in my title have the word “evidence” in their names, one is different from the others. The differences hing...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Challenging Parental Alienation: A New Book for Professionals and Parents

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  There is a good deal of published material about “parental alienation” (PA). Unfortunately, when parents are confronted with allegations t...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Parental Alienation Science Stumbles Along

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  Over the last few years, a major goal of proponents of the parental alienation belief system seems to have been to amass a series of weakl...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Talkin' Pseudoscience/Parental Alienation (Blues)

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  In recent months, I have come across the use of the term “pseudoscience” several times in advocacy for and against the parental alienation...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Gottlieb Addresses FAF on Interesting Subject of Cognitive Errors about PA

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  The organization www.familyaccessfightingforchildrensrights.com has been putting on a series of webinars by proponents of the parental al...
Friday, September 24, 2021

Ill-Judged Encouragement of "Facilitated Communication" by Vermont

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  Janyce Boynton, an activist working to protect nonverbal people and their families from use of the discredited “facilitated communication”...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

Not on the Levels: Harman Says She Evaluated Turning Points

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  Jennifer Harman, a proponent of the parental alienation belief system, has published an article that reports her attempt to evaluate Linda...
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Jean Mercer has a Ph.D in Psychology from Brandeis University, earned when that institution was 20 years old (you do the math). She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, where for many years she taught developmental psychology, research methods, perception, and history of psychology. Since about 2000 her focus has been on potentially dangerous child psychotherapies, and she has published several related books and a number of articles in professional journals. Her CV can be seen at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2009/12/curriculum-vitae-jean.mercer-richard.html.
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