It can help our spirits and emotional well being to help the world understand the harm to children from parental alienation. Here are some suggestions of how to do it. And ultimately, feeling happy and staying out of the pit of despair is an important part of reconnecting with our children.
0. Become involved in a support group in your area in your area.
1. Hang up flyers to promote a support group. Panera Bread has a community bulletin board. Some grocery stores do. Some churches allow them to be hung up. Mail a flyer to a local therapist. Libraries may allow you to provide/post a flyer. If someone ask you to sign a petition to get something on the ballot, they are fair game and captive audience for you to share your favorite cause. If you go to your library, you may find ads for Kids Grief Classes or other Services to help kids with divorce or anger, and those organizations are fair game for sharing. Remember, about 1% of American children are affected, so at someone point, even someone who removes the flyer you posted may no someone involved in parental alienation.
2. Reach out to people who run divorce care and grief care classes and let them know a support group is available. See if they know what parental alienation is. It is my experience that they will know of people who simply say "I am estranged from my child", but some percentage of that may be parental alienation.
3. Go through a directory of advertising therapists and ask if they treat PA. Depending on how they respond back, it may be possible to send them a care package or parts of one, or at least comment. Find the right balance is a delicate thing.
4. Register in meetup.com group , especially the one in Columbus Ohio
5. Offer to speak to a divorce group, a church group, a Lions group, or a Kiwanis group. Some are looking for speakers. Other will not give you the time of day. I recommend showing this video or just speaking the same words same words as the video , which makes a good presentation.
6. Propose a PA talk at an upcoming conferences , such as the State Social Workers Convention or the State Social Workers Convention. Contact Howie Dennison if you want a 100 page slide deck to speak from. Many conferences require special degree'ed credentials, but some do not.
7. Write a letter to the editor.
8. All or at least most radio stations allow events to be registered, on their web sites. So register a support group event. If you don't have one, just pick a convenient location and see if anyone shows up. At least the person at the radio station who decides your event is not of "general interest" will have then heard of parental alienation.
9. Become a blogger for Divorce Magazine Bloggers
10. Periodically search news.google.com for "parental alienation" and then comment in support of parental alienation.
11. Send a care package to an influential member of the American Psychological Association. Contact Howie Dennison for more informaiton about this.
12. Support folks on facebook.
13. If a church accepts prayer requests forms, fill in prayer requests for alienated children.
14. Share about parental alienation on your facebook wall, unless that would offend your children.
15. For your favorite books on parental alienation, if you feel you can give it a 5 star review, add a review on amazon.com and goodreads.com. Suggested books are:
a. C. A. Childress, An Attachment-Based Model of Parental Alienation: Foundations
b. C. A. Childress, Professionals Consulation
c. Amy Baker, Adult Children of Parental Alienation
d. Richard Warshak, Divorce Poison.
e. Amy Baker, Co-parenting with a Toxic Ex
f. Amy Baker, The High Conflict Custody Battle
g. Amy Baker, Surviving Parental Alienation
Reviews an Amazon work best if you purchase the book there, becoming a verified purchaser
16. Join the National Alliance for Targeted Parents and Join Their Initiatives
17. Sign the petition to ask the APA to change their position statement
18. Write letters to the American Psychological Association. Contact Howie Dennison for the key people to write to.
19. Write letters to the editor asking the APA to write friends of the court briefs on parental alienation Informing the Courts with the Best Research