Parental Alienation - Domestic Violence and Abuse









The Learning Theory Solution

Parental Alienation - Common Sense Reunification - Behavioral Approach


Background and Need for A Complete Paradigm Shift

Time and again, the Family Courts and the Mental Health community enable and ensure that the effects of child abuse become cemented into a foundation of learned pathologies. Deferring to the "child's best interests" has become the rational for totally counter intuitive, dangerous and almost ridiculous strategies that escalate conflict, cause incredible expense, torments the victims, rewards the abusers and results in an endless and avoidable catastrophe. Mental Health training in the USA today is by and large focused on trying to create balanced solutions spending fruitless hours of empathetic listening to support and respect the victim client's feelings where more often than not, an alliance forms between the therapist and the child's alienation driven delusional behaviors. Either by incompetence, blindness or willful ignorance, mental health practitioners watch the client session-by-session, week-by-week, slow, steady walk towards increasing enmeshment cheer leading the abused victim's embrace of increasing capitulation and encouraging the belief in the pathology as an adaptive adjustment. The victim's reluctance to behavioral change is not only maintained but also systematically strengthened. Meanwhile, the victim client and targeted parent are forced to dance to the never-ending tune of their own destruction.

There is no more despicable and dishonorable profession than one that systematically enhances a client's victim status, especially with the belief that compassionate supportive talking is a viable remedy. Family court law and all its enablers behave as though stupidity and enabling time wasting abuse were a virtue. Their actions rise to the level of mal-practice totally devoid of any reasoned humanity or ethics.

After almost half a century of useless and unproductive results, the strategies and procedures have become ingrained into Family Law to the point where there is now an expectation of failure that has been embraced as acceptable practice.

The casualties of this idiotic system, that proposes time and again the same failed strategies and expecting different results are unimaginably horrible. It is time to throw out the entire system before it destroys another generation of children and their targeted parents that consistently result in catastrophic trauma, grief and pathologies.

Hugs are the Goal


Rational for A Learning Theory Approach to PA

Other pathways need to be immediately explored.

Learning theory provides a viable alternative that can simply explain the etiology of what is called parental alienation in terms that are intuitive, comprehensible, and logical and that provide a solution pathway. When we are told that a child or teenager is rejecting a parent without an obvious reason, it suggests that there is a cause and an effect. Given that survival and quality of life of virtually all humans is contingent on forming attachments, there is reason for great concern.

Learning theory is based on the concept that all behavior is a function of learned conditioned experiences.



The Learning Program To Recover Family Victims

The learning theory approach has a strategy. Besides gathering observational evidence to identify the experience field that caused the mal-adaptive behavior, there is a reinforcement (learning) procedure that will be prepared that draws on the research experience of behavioral sciences, including elements of Wolpe's Systematic Desensitization Process, Skinner's Operant Conditioning and Watson's stimulus-reinforcement work going back to the 1920's.

A big step in this process borrowed from the performance management field of Aubrey Daniels, a protégé of Skinner, is to train the trainer.

Learning theory maintains that the most effective therapist for a behavior change agent is the former close now alienated parent. That parent has a power greater than any outside therapist could compete. It is important to remember that the target parent is not motivated by money, billing hours or business agendas.

Would You Like For Hope In Darkness To Help Facilitate A Common Sense Behavioral Strategy


Hope in Darkness can engage with your Attorney and Court to enlighten them in a Common Sense approach that can be part of the content of your Motion. We will also make every effort to help the judge in understanding and adopting a better strategy, one that will relieve the court and the family of endless years of useless and ineffective orders.

Parental Alienation is not that hard to understand, observe and validate. The complexities of the mental health system and court evaluators who rely on opinions not facts is the reason why you have become a milk cow for usurious billings.

An honest and simplified perspective of Parental Alienation is in everyone's best interest and it is time to stop watching the fire but extinguish it as fast as possible.

Let's stop the circus and bring your kids home.

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