Thursday, October 12, 2023

What's the context for "alienating behaviors"? (Baselines and all that)

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  It would seem quite likely that some parents do sometimes do or say things that can be considered "alienating behaviors”—actions that...
Friday, August 4, 2023

Parental Alienation, The Tower of Psychobabble, and the ":Straw Woman"

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                Karen Woodall, a UK proponent of the parental alienation (PA) construct, has outdone herself in her 29/7/23 blog post ( ht...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Did You Peer At My Article? Facts About Peer Review

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  Go into any family court where social science is being put in evidence,   and you will hear peer review referenced. “Are the papers on you...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Can We Regulate or Ban Potentially Harmful Psychological Treatments?

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  If a psychosocial treatment is powerful enough to change someone’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior for the better, we need to be aware th...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

How Vague Is Your Vagus?

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  Over a lot of years of professional life, I have seen some concepts become popularized, reinterpreted, and generalized beyond all meaning ...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Identification by Listicle: Parental Alienation and Those Five Factors

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  Author after author has pointed out that as yet there is no established way of identifying cases in which a child rejects one parent becau...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Bishop Wilberforce Rides Again; or, Parental Alienation Advocates Admit a Problem

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  If you look at academia.edu, you will find a lengthy document entitled “Statement of the Global Action for Research Integrity in Parental ...