Treatment Program For Alienated Children With Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW Turning Points For Families

Turning Points for Families (TPFF) is a four-day, transitional program to “jump-start”
the healing of a severed or severely damaged relationship between a child and fit
parent. TPFF is a symbolic-experiential intervention that merges family systems
therapy with psycho-education. The intervention is compelling because it involves
human learning and growth in all three forms—cognitive, affective, and behavioral.
Suspension of contact with the favored or alienating parent is essential in order for
the child to feel free to engage with the rejected or alienated parent and be freed from
the loyalty conflict imposed by the favored or alienating parent. The mental health
and judicial communities struggle to realize effective treatment for severe alienation,
which is unresponsive to traditional reunification therapy. TPFF is evidence-based:
The program’s outcome data confirm its high success rate of reunification and its
effectiveness in realizing enriched reconnection—when its treatment protocol is
followed precisely.
TPFF’s treatment protocol adheres to standard clinical practice as adopted by
overwhelming consensus among specialists in severe parental alienation.
The treatment protocol requires a 90-day no-contact period between the favored
parent and child to include no direct or indirect contact, such as telephonic and
electronic communication. The necessity of the no-contact period garners widespread
support among specialists in alienation and is decisively confirmed by my
evidence-based practice in successfully treating hundreds of alienated children. The
necessity for the no-contact period derives, in part, from repeated experiences that
the child will enthusiastically invest in the rejected parent absent any influence from
the favored parent. The favored parent must be temporarily relieved of exercising
power and influence over the child—that is, the child must be psychologically free
from the loyalty conflict in which the child feels disloyal to the favored parent because
of acceptance of the rejected parent. The no-contact period is a necessity beyond the
4-day intensive treatment phase in order to prevent the child’s regression and
relapse—which is a virtual certainty due to even minimal contact with an unreformed
alienating parent.
In almost all situations of severe alienation, the favored or alienating parent either
fails to recognize or denies any role in having influenced the child to reject the other
parent. This situation is highly detrimental and insidious to the child—one cannot
correct what one does not recognize to be a problem. The alienating parent’s denial
must therefore be lifted as the preliminary step to remedying the alienating behaviors
and is a pre-condition to lifting the no-contact period.
Generally, it is best for the child to be transitioned to the care of the alienated parent
at the time of the court order for the intervention at TPFF. Given the research we have
about the profound psychological instability of severe alienators—and especially if
the alienating parent has had a history of suicidal ideation, attempts, and/or threats,
or if there are other significant red flags for instability—it may be a grave risk to the
child to remain in the alienating parent’s care until the initiation of the intervention.
There have been some situations in which the alienating parent has absconded with
the child subsequent to the court ruling for treatment. And in a few rare cases, the
alienating parent has committed the act of homicide of the child and then suicide.
Another important reason for the prompt transition of the child into the care of the
alienated parent is that the alienating parent will take advantage of the time between
the ruling and the intervention to escalate the brainwashing process—just as
described by Clawer and Rivlin. The TPFF intervention should, therefore, ideally
begin immediately upon the issuing of the court order. Alternative placement with
the alienated parents’ extended family can be an option should the alienated parent
not be available immediately upon the issuance of the court order.
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