Domestic Violence and the Parental Alienation Syndrome
In marriages in which there is no domestic abuse and parental alienation upon divorce, it is more often the woman who is the alienating parent. Whereas in marriages in which there is domestic abuse, the victimized partner is in most cases the alienated parent. Why these trends?
PAS in Non-abusive and in Abusive Relationships
Parental alienation goes back as far as childbirth. Women assume a more significant bond with their offspring, especially in infancy and through the formative years. And many men assume traditional roles of provider, taking them out of the home during much of the baby and young child’s life (waking hours). Divorce merely extenuates this already existing status quo.
What Are the Family Dynamics That Can Be Traumatic to Children?
One of the challenges to working with children in a clinical setting is that they are rarely strong enough to overcome the environmental press created by the family dynamics they are being raised within. In society today their is a movement away from accountability in general, and many times when a therapist wants to address the environment that children are being raised within, the parents scream “FOUL BALL” and claim that they are being blamed for the bad behavior of their children. This is particularly true in families that present with developmental trauma which can be defined as anything that interferes or interrupts the normal psychological, emotional, or social development of a child. To blame or finger point is a useless activity, what is necessary it to help these families with highly challenging children to understand how to best maximize the opportunity for the child to succeed and prosper.
Dr. Jeffery Young has completed a tremendous amount of work and research discovering these environmental patterns and the impact each has on individuals. Jeff is the founder of Schema Therapy which is a tremendous therapeutic approach to dealing with personality distortions that develops with in family dynamics.
According to Dr. Young there are five general environmental factors that contribute to the traumatic experience. As each is explored in brief it will become increasingly clear how these particular family environments may create interference normal social-emotional development. If you are a therapist, social worker or counselor it would be recommended by this writer that you obtain and read Dr. Young’s material designed for professional helpers. Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide where he develops strategies to support the helper create healing moments for those that struggle to recover from these distressing family dynamics.
Put the Power of Viral Marketing to Work For You
When the term viral marketing is used, people often think spam or malicious computer killing software sent through email. the term of course refers to the idea of speeding a message, joke, a video or other piece of information that excites us momentarily and is then passed on to others for their own show, amusement or amazement.
Viral marketing is any method that is used to encourage someone to pass on a marketing message to someone else. This creates the domino effect of one person passing it on to another and another and so on. The potential for exponential growth is enormous because if you really are impacted by a new game, video or some piece of useful software, you will with a little prompting pass it on to others as with pleasure.
So how does it work? Viral marketing appeals to several emotional factors in us; the most obvious of which is curiosity. Once we get the “gift” opened, if we like it and it the viral message leaves us in a heightened state. If it’s funny, we laugh a little louder; if it’s scary we feel it more acutely.
