Effective Treatment Plans

If you are lucky, one of these effective methods is available to you, because mental health and the courts spoke with a unified, correct voice:

Disclaimer: Central Ohio Parental Alienation has no treatment experience with any of the people mentioned on this page, has no legal or medical credentials, and offers no legal or medical advice.

• 1. Brian Ludmer lists the places that offer structured intervention and explains what treatments work, which don't, and why.

  2. Also see more information about what therapy works and does not work, in Attorney and Lawyer Training Material

  3. In his "Foundations" book , Dr Childress discuss treatment plans that work very quickly, IF mental health speaks with an informed, unified voice and courts take a no nonsense and informed approach, by protecting the child temporarily from the negative influence of the Alienator. Two sites referenced by Dr Childress are the Conscious Co-parenting institute and Family Bridges. Family bridges has a very high , peer reviewed success rate as does Dr Reay's Family Reflections. See also Joan Kelly's review of Family Bridges.

  4. Here are three success stories about children who have reconnected, as the result of mental health and courts taking a Childress style no-nonsense approach

  5. Some have recommended treatment programs by Linda Gottlieb and Rebecca Bailey. Additional treatment programs are mentioned in the attorney training material.

  6. Karen Woodall discusses the need to protect the child and the child's experience of the protection. See also her article: Karen Woodall's "Separation from Source [of abuse] Protocol". In fact, she has many outstanding and insightful essays about treatment that does work, many of which are linked here. Karen addresses power in this article: Interperonal Terrorism: The Use of Power in Parental Alienation

  7. See also Dr. Miller's discussion about how garden variety "reunification therapy" will not work in a severe case, which is fundamentally different than a mild or moderate case. See the bottom of this web page for a transcription of Dr. Miller's testimony , in particular, read this last sentence at the bottom of the page, which is "Other than that, there is no hope for a severe case, don't even think of doing it with office therapy."

  8. See also Dr. Childress' book on Single Case ABAB assessment and Remedy

  9. See also Dr. Childress' article on treatment focused assessment protocol

  10. According to Karen Woodall "Standard family therapy rarely proves effective ... She suggested that while the cultures and legal issues faced by alienation specialists in different countries may differ, the fundamentals are essentially the same so internationally recognized treatment standards would serve a valuable function."

1. Here is more information about why children must be protected

   1. See also, Dr. Childress' book "Contingent Visitation Schedule"

To know more about why traditional therapy fails for severe cases, read:

1. Bring Me the Leeches

2. On Unicorns, The Tooth Fairy, and Reunification Therapy

   1. More critique by Dr. Childress on reunification therapy: "They can just make stuff up. Whatever they want. They can even make up a new form of therapy – 'reunification therapy' – that is totally without any guiding principles and description for what it is. They can just make it up as they go and call it “reunification therapy.”

Bikers Against Child Abuse:

For a perspective on why children must be protected from the abuser, refer to Bikers Against Child Abuse, as described on Wikipedia, this NPR news article, and the 15 minute youtube video below (although there are many shorter ones around). The entire point is that the idea of sending kids to reunification counseling without protecting from the abuser is crazy and is destined to fail:

Read this news article about Bikers who support and help a bullied child