Breaking through to alienated kids
PAS Intervention Executive Director Joan Kloth-Zanard offers a two-part live webinar “Breaking through to alienated kids,” beginning on Saturday, May 20, at 12 noon ET.
The cost is $60.
To register: https://education.lovefraud.com/courses/breaking-through-to-alienated-kids/
In Part 1, Koth-Zanard discusses how parental alienation affects children’s psychological and emotional development.
In Part 2, focuses on strategies for breaking through to alienated kids “to help them overcome the effects of this insidious manipulation.”
Kloth-Zanard’s work is mostly with fathers whose children do not want to see them, and who claim the mother alienated the children from them.
Since family court is a money-making enterprise for the people who control it — attorneys – it is not a system to trust your children in or to seek justice. It is not a system capable of distinguishing between true and false claims of alienation, though it is a system quite capable of distinguishing how much money can be extracted from a divorce and custody case.
Below Kloth-Zanard discusses her webinar.
By Joan T. Kloth-Zanard
Parental alienation is a form of psychological abuse in which your ex encourages your kids to break your heart. It’s terrible for you, but even worse for your children.
Why?
Parental alienation interferes with your children’s brain development, emotional growth, and executive functioning.
Yes, you love your kids and want a relationship with them. But there’s another important reason for breaking through to alienated kids: Parental alienation inhibits your children’s ability to mature into healthy, happy and productive members of society.
Key steps include building their self-esteem and teaching them critical thinking. When your kids can trust their own perceptions, they may realize they want you in their lives after all.
Learning objectives
In this two-part webinar, you’ll learn how parental alienation affects children and learn strategies for supporting your kids day-to-day.
After this course, you should:
Understand what the alienated child experiences
Recognize the effects of psychological child abuse
Describe how alienation affects a child’s executive functioning
Boost kids’ self-esteem to help them resist alienation
Respond appropriately to negative behavior by your kids
Collaborate with your kids to solve problems
Program Agenda
Part 1 – Understanding how parental alienation affects children
Parental Alienation — what it is
Alternate terms for parental alienation
Parental alienation is terrorism
DSM 5 diagnoses for the alienated child
What the alienated child experiences
Lack of emotional and mental maturity
Effects of psychological child abuse
Children’s self-worth and self-esteem
Behaviors of the targeted parent
Behaviors of the alienator
Psychological abuse and actions that an alienator may use
Other victims of parental alienation
Children and resiliency
A child’s brain development
11 Executive functioning skills and how alienation affects them
Treatment of parental alienation
Is your counselor helping or hurting?
The goal of intervention
What happens in reunification/reintegration therapy?
Part 2 — Strategies for supporting your kids day to day
First and foremost, take care of yourself
Happy, healthy, successful and spiritually positive
The importance of unconditional love for your children
Why alienated children are afraid to love you and how to help them
Alienation seems to stunt children’s emotional growth
How to help children make progress in emotional maturity
Helping kids understand the impact of their own behavior
Boosting kids’ self-esteem helps them resist alienation
How teenagers are affected by parental alienation
Splitting — why kids feel they need to be different with each parent
How to react when your child repeats your ex’s smears
Use empathy questions when your child makes false accusations
What to do when:
Your ex is berating you in front of the children
Your children refuse to visit you
Your children are lying to you
Your child says, “I hate you”
Your children are taking their fear and anger out on you
Your children say they don’t have to listen to you
Your children claim abuse that hasn’t happened
Your children say they are afraid of you
Your child has gender identity issues
Your child becomes physically violent and attacks you
How alienated children are like explosive children
A collaborative problem-solving approach with your kids
