zondag 26 maart 2006

First national symposium on parental alienation syndrome

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The signatories below - lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists participating in the First National Symposium on Parental Alienation Syndrome, conclude that:

• The manipulation of children by one of the parents, or within the family circle of this parent, with the intention that they reject the other parent, is a type of Psychological Violence which qualifies as Child Abuse.

  This abuse process includes obstruction of the relationship between the children, their parent and this parent’s side of the extended family, false accusations of sexual aggression and abuse, physical distancing mechanisms and inculcation of denigrating and injurious arguments which construct in the mind of the child beliefs, emotions and behaviours which the children believe they themselves have created, in which they express hatred against the rejected parent, together with an extreme form of defence of the alienating parent.

  It is necessary to reinvigorate the investigation of these actions within the judicial ambit, medical, psychiatric and psychological, with the objective of developing analytical tools which can serve to prevent the development of such behaviours, interfering in this process and providing treatment.

  The Professional Representative bodies for Lawyers, Doctors and State-registered Psychologists must pay attention to this type of child abuse so as to deny it the ability to establish itself and thus develop into a fully elaborated form. They must train their professionals in recognizing its existence, within the framework of their professional codes of conduct.

This present declaration is signed in Madrid, in the Distinguished College of Medical Practitioners, 25th March 2006, by:

Juan José Cruz Senovilla, medical doctor
Antonio Luengo Dos Santos, medical docter
Asunción Tejedor, psychologist
José Manuel Aguilar Cuenca, psycholoog
Javier San Sebastián Cabases, medical doctor
José Luis Péres Heredia Flores, medical docter
Tomas Daroca Martínez, medical docter
Jesús Robert Asensio, lawyer
Mª Teresa Junco López, psychologist

Translation Julian Fitzgerald

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