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L’alienazione genitoriale nelle famiglie separate: una valutazione sistemico-relazionale
Journal Title: TERAPIA FAMILIARE 
Author/s: Silvia Mazzoni, Giulia Meneghetti, Floriana Panizza 
Year:  2015 Issue: 109 Language: Italian 
Pages:  20 Pg. 21-40 FullText PDF:  146 KB
DOI:  10.3280/TF2015-109002
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The theme of high conflictual separated and divorced couples and of severe effects on children will be focused in the article. Among these effects, the parental alienation phenomenon will be addressed from a critical discussion on Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) formulated by Richard Gardner. Despite the PAS is still discussed within the scientific community, it is already mentioned in 2008 in Art. 9 of the bill number 957: «The proven conditioning of the child’s will, especially if targeted to the rejection of the other parent by activating the parental alienation syndrome, constitutes a serious failure, which can result in exclusion from custody». Gardner’s hypothesis, will be compared to the one proposed in the "concentric model" of Kelly and Johnston. The results emerging from the study of six cases - found at law firms - will be presented helping to illustrate an evaluation grid that shows the different fac tors that contribute to the construction of parental alienation and that guides the clinician to define multifocal plans’ intervention.
Keywords: Parental alienation, high conflictual parents, systemic and family assessment.

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Silvia Mazzoni, Giulia Meneghetti, Floriana Panizza, in "TERAPIA FAMILIARE" 109/2015, pp. 21-40, DOI:10.3280/TF2015-109002

   

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