What is Parental Alienation? Bernet et al (2010) considers a primary feature of parental alienation where a child whose parents are engaged in a high conflict divorce or separation allies himself or herself strongly with one parent while rejecting the relationship with the other previously loved parent without legitimate justification.
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Illinois Divorce Law: COVID-19 and Being Open for All Clients
Just a quick reminder, Law Offices of Michael F Roe LLC is open, working and servicing and managing client cases day to day! With credit to Dan Jaffe at LawLytics, here are the crucial points t be made during the COVID lockdown: 1. OUR FIRM IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS 2. WE ARE…
Illinois Divorce: Children of Divorce and Mental Health
A parent need not be a psychologist to understand that the stress of pre-divorce or the divorce process can take its toll on kids emotionally and physically. Because many of my cases involve High Conflict divorces, there is often seen in the kids of these families both emotional and somatic…
Illinois Divorce: COVID-19 and Family Cases
How Will Temporary Court Closures Due to COVID-19 Affect Family Law Cases? Many clients of our firm are asking this important question: What is the immediate impact on my case if my courthouse is closed for weeks or months, starting right now? It has been only since last Friday that…
Illinois Divorce: 2020 Top Divorce Law Blogs
” Top Divorce Law Blogs We ranked the top divorce law blogs based on website authority, inbound links from other sites, and Twitter followers. The following blogs are regularly updated to provide valuable information on divorce law and insights into a career at a family law firm. ” Illinois Divorce…
Illinois Divorce: Parental Alienation and the DSM-V
I recently had an interesting discussion at one of the courthouses about Parental Alienation. The issue for the moment was whether PA was considered “real” from a clinical point of view, and whether the DSM had a diagnostic category for Parental Alienation. As any reader of Illinois Divorce Lawyer Blog…
Illinois Divorce Lawyer: Psychological Splitting in Children of Divorce
Everyday Trauma: Induced Psychological Splitting in Children of Divorce and Separation Credit: https://karenwoodall.blog Understanding the impact of divorce and separation on children takes us down new pathways of understanding of induced psychological splitting, its manifestation in families and the every trauma it causes which has been hidden in plain sight…
Illinois Divorce Lawyer: Divorcing the Narcissist
For many years, and since the publishing of Bill Eddy’s landmark book Splitting, I have been writing on the subject of divorce and personality disorders. My law practice has a focus on helping people navigate divorce from a narcissist or someone with other traits of toxic personality disorders. Because divorcing…
Illinois Divorce: The Alienated Biological Child
Illinois Divorce: Narcissists: New Blog, Great Advice
Many clients that come to my office have issues with a spouse with traits of a personality disorder. These traits create many challenges for the relationship, and the family, and in the context of divorce, the case can end up being what is called a “high conflict case.” For many…