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The Impact of Parental Alienation on Children’s Executive Function Skills

The Impact of Parental Alienation on Children’s Executive Function Skills Brief overview of parental alienation, Why the relationship is important: Parental alienation refers to a dynamic in which one parent, often during or after a divorce or separation, attempts to negatively influence the child's perception and relationship with the other parent. It involves a persistent and unwarranted campaign to denigrate and undermine the alienated parent, leading the child to reject or harbor negative feelings towards that parent. Parental alienation can involve various behaviors, such as making derogatory remarks, limiting contact, manipulating information, or instilling fear or guilt in the child. What is executive function? Executive dysfunction refers to difficulties in the cognitive processes involved in self-regulation, problem-solving, decision-making, and goal-directed behavior. These processes are primarily governed by the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Executive functions include...

From Karen Woodall

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  When child abuse looks like love - understanding enmeshment and projections in children's behaviours - from the workbook for professionals working with emotional and psychological abuse of children in family separation - publication date - Summer 2025. …more

Karen Woodall, Psychotherapist - Blog page - There's Some Interesting Information Here

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What Does the Bible Say about Children Who Abandon their Parents?

 Interesting read no matter what your religion is. https://melodyrepeat.com/what-does-the-bible-say-about-children-who-abandon-their-parents/?

A Post from A Member of One of the Parental Alienation Groups

This is long but stay with it.  It makes a lot of sense and explains about how my adolescent daughters got sucked into PAS. Marlene and Jocelyn - this has actually happened to you although you don't realize it.  I love you and miss you. - Keith Thompson - One of the most torturous things about PA during adolescence is the way alienation takes hold of and "hijacks" the defining characteristics of this crucial passage in a young person's life.   Every stage of life development presents a human being with fundamental tasks specific to that stage. In adolescence, these primary tasks include: experimenting with greater separation from the family of origin (in particular the people called Mom and Dad); exploring a greater sense of personal identity (I, Me, My); and developing a heightened moral sense. Opinions about what's right and wrong, good and bad, become far more prevalent. These opinions cover politics, social issues, peer dynamics, and naturally parenting decisi...

Parental alienation is so destructive to a child, and causes emotional and behavioral issues, that are all blamed on the target parent

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How the alienator constantly brainwashes the child against a loving parent. Ryan Thomas video

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