Breaking through to alienated kids

About this course

Parental alienation — it’s a form of psychological abuse in which your ex encourages your kids to break your heart. It’s terrible for you, but even worse for your children.

Why? Parental alienation interferes with your children’s brain development, emotional growth and executive functioning. Yes, you love your kids and want a relationship with them. But there’s another important reason for breaking through to alienated kids: Parental alienation inhibits your children’s ability to mature into healthy, happy and productive members of society.

In this two-part webinar series, Joan Kloth-Zanard, an expert in parental alienation and founder of PAS Intervention, offers you a road map forward. In Part 1, you’ll learn how parental alienation affects your children’s psychological and emotional development. In Part 2, you’ll learn specific strategies that you can use for breaking through to alienated kids to help them overcome the effects of this insidious manipulation.

Key steps include building their self-esteem and teaching them critical thinking. When your kids are able to trust their own perceptions, they may realize that they do want you in their lives after all.

Highlights

• Why parental alienation is a form of terrorism
• The 6 stages of a child’s brain development
• Is your counselor helping or hurting?
• Why alienated children are afraid to love you
• How to react when your child repeats your ex’s smears
• What to do when your children refuse to visit you

About the instructor Joan T. Kloth-Zanard

Joan T. Kloth-Zanard, MFT, GAL, ADA, RSS, ABI, LC, is founder of PAS-intervention.org. Joan is an expert in the fields of parental alienation, psychological abuse, intervention strategies, and techniques and strategies for moving forward and rebuilding life after a traumatic event, or series of traumatic events. The reality is that most people don’t get to choose the things that happen to them. Hopefully though, they will arrive at a point in time where they are able to choose to be proactive about what they want for their future. Joan has a passion for helping people recognize that point in time and then providing them with ongoing support and guidance to help them keep moving forward.

She is an active advocate for victims and speaks to legislative bodies about the programs, services and funding victims rely on for support while they journey to reclaim their lives. She also serves as a Guardian Ad Litem and is assigned by the court to cases where a minor child’s interests and rights are at risk.

Joan is the author of Where Did I Go Wrong? How Did I Miss The Signs? Dealing with Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation, and a contributing editor in Broken Family Bonds: Poems and Stories by Victims of Parental Alienation. She continues to provide free, one-on-one, 24/7, international, online, email, and text messaging support to victims.

Cost and credits

The cost for this course is only $60 for 2 hours of instruction. Once you purchase the course, you can access it online as long and as often as you want.

Although this course does not award continuing education credits, you will be able to download a certificate of achievement upon completion.

Learning objectives

After this course, Breaking through to alienated kids, you should be able to:

• Understand what the alienated child experiences
• Recognize the effects of psychological child abuse
• Describe how alienation affects a child’s executive functioning
• Boost kids’ self-esteem to help them resist alienation
• Respond appropriately to negative behavior by your kids
• Collaborate with your kids to solve problems

Program Agenda

Part 1 – Understanding how parental alienation affects children

55 minutes instruction

• Parental Alienation — what it is
• Alternate terms for parental alienation
• Parental alienation is terrorism
• DSM 5 diagnoses for the alienated child
• What the alienated child experiences
• Lack of emotional and mental maturity
• Effects of psychological child abuse
• Children’s self-worth and self-esteem
• Behaviors of the targeted parent
• Behaviors of the alienator
• Psychological abuse and actions that an alienator may use
• Other victims of parental alienation
• Children and resiliency
• A child’s brain development
• 11 Executive functioning skills and how alienation affects them
• Treatment of parental alienation
• Is your counselor helping or hurting?
• The goal of intervention
• What happens in reunification/reintegration therapy?

5 minutes questions and answers

 

Part 2 — Strategies for supporting your kids day to day

55 minutes of instruction

• First and foremost, take care of yourself
• Happy, healthy, successful and spiritually positive
• The importance of unconditional love for your children
• Why alienated children are afraid to love you and how to help them
• Alienation seems to stunt children’s emotional growth
• How to help children make progress in emotional maturity
• Helping kids understand the impact of their own behavior
• Boosting kids’ self-esteem helps them resist alienation
• How teenagers are affected by parental alienation
• Splitting — why kids feel they need to be different with each parent
• How to react when your child repeats your ex’s smears
• Use empathy questions when your child makes false accusations
• What to do when:
  • Your ex is berating you in front of the children
  • Your children refuse to visit you
  • Your children are lying to you
  • Your child says, “I hate you”
  • Your children are taking their fear and anger out on you
  • Your children say they don’t have to listen to you
  • Your children claim abuse that hasn’t happened
  • Your children say they are afraid of you
  • Your child has gender identity issues
  • Your child becomes physically violent and attacks you
• How alienated children are like explosive children
• A collaborative problem-solving approach with your kids

Here are previews of the webinars:

 

Parental alienation is psychological terrorism. In this two-part webinar, you’ll learn how it affects children and strategies for supporting your kids day to day.

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Breaking through to alienated kids — $60