In Why Right to Love Doesn’t Use the Term “Parental alienation”, it was highlighted that the UK Association of Clinical Psychologists (ACP) and the British Psychological Society (BPS) advise that “parental alienation” cannot be diagnosed. They didn’t, however, state what could be diagnosed and this has left traumatised families with a lot of unanswered questions. …
There is a factor in some intact families that causes harm, can lead to family breakdown and post-separation abuse. That factor is the existence of a parent with a severely maladaptive attachment strategy. This includes parents with narcissistic/borderline personality disorder. Only a person who has significant difficulty with information processing, with reduced ability to mentalise …
In 2017 Cafcass and Women’s Aid published findings of their research into “Allegations of domestic abuse in child contact cases“. Cafcass looked at 216 cases from their case records where they had been asked by the court to investigate applications for arrangements orders in relation to spending time with a child. The sample came from …
