Parental Alienation Education Pleas Made to Board in California–

Parental alienation is not junk science. Professor Ron Berglas says that the only reason that parental alienation has been able to beused by abusive parents is because the mental health professional has not properly been trained to identify parental alienation. Watchas Dr. Berglas testifies to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to urge them to make 7-hour course of parental alienationtraining of all mental health professionals and to include as a listing in the DSM. Berglas claims that this is "now an acceptedbyproduct of high conflict divorce" and that "in fact, by refusing to take action we are facilitating the destruction of our children'sright to love both parents equally without quilt." And that "unless we begin to require training of these professionals that we will beconsigning children to a lifetime of trauma.""

The PASymposium2017 will be offering training with continuing education units for professionals in April. "Parental alienation is notabout parents acting badly. It is about one parent acting badly."

Karen Woodall, Understanding Parental Alienation.

Joan Kloth Zanard, PAS-Intervention

Linda Gottlieb, End Parental Alienation