Assessment of Attachment-Related Pathology Surrounding Divorce

Dr. Childress is the foremost expert in the field of Attachment Based - Parental Alienation, also commonly known as Parental Alienation or Family Bond Obstruction. This book is helpful for professionals working on your cases regarding your high conflict family court matters as well as domestic violence cases. The current goal of the AB-PA movement is to hold those social workers, psychologists, lawyers, and judges accountable by enacting psychologically sound protocol to assess and diagnose complex psychological abuse in children and families.Once this protocol becomes widely known we can then diagnose the child psychological abuse much more effectively.Highly recommend Foundations for parents struggling with the psychological abuse of AB-PA.

As well as its older brother "an attachment-based model of parental alienation" of the same author from the year 2015 this book deals with a topic often hushed up in some countries, the problem of divorce families in the presence of personality disorders. In the vast majority of countries the refusal of a child to see the abandoned parent after parental divorce is seen as an expression of a severe psychological child abuse by the caring parent, apart from the effects on the rejected parent. Childress describes the child`s role-reversal use as a “regulatory object” by a narcissistic/(borderline) supposedly ”allied” parent in these cases. However, last in 2016, for example the highest court of the Federal Republic of Germany even ruled on the exclusion of the abandoned parent from any visits the child having declared such a will. Even an influenced wish can be considerable, according to the court, a decision fitting well into a social environment having caused the "largest psychosocial mass catastrophe" (Katterle) of the FRG. This book of Childress like his others is an important book of an utmost competent author which may help to overcome such unspeakable legal situations in the best interest of child`s welfare.

He’s helped many families- but if dies cost 10k for a 50 page report which does make this a privilege for those who can pay. His book does at least prepare you for a different perspective. I personally wish I could afford his services as it would make all the difference in the world. And I would become a life long advocate. The book is hard to read if someone does not have experience reading post graduate-academic papers. Just take your time and break it up on segments, take notes, write down your questions and use it as a tool in your research. If you have the money, he’s worth the money. If you have the money and would like to sponsor a parent like myself, message me @ AphroditesLaundry1 on Twitter or AphroditesLaundry @ Gmail.com I’mwriting about my experience - in hope of helping families in the future. Family court is an example of an invisible discourse which needs to come to light. Buy his books- they’re worth it.

This is so very helpful I’m so grateful for Dr. Childress’s efforts to help children and targeted parents. I cannot recommend this enough!

In-depth look at the definitions, causes, and ramifications of attachment based parenting- aka parental alienation. Dr. Craig Chldress is brilliant!!

Great resource. Childress understands high conflict dynamics and the impact on children. This is a clinical approach specific to observable child behaviors, it’s exactly what any therapist needs for assessing attachment related issues.

Very helpful in my work

Interesting read on parental alienation

All you need to know to face "Parental Alienation". This book explains it all. I stronly recommend it if you're involved in a high conflict divorce.