These are resources for parents.

Silence is Complicity in Child Abuse

This is an essay I wrote extending responsibility to the professional organizations that remain silent regarding the rampant and unchecked violations to the APA ethics code, and about the rampant and unchecked psychological abuse of children.

Structural Family Systems Constructs in Parental Alienation (Childress, 2012)

This is a handout explaining various constructs from Structural family systems therapy applied to the “parental alienation” pathology.

Email Advice to a Parent Regarding Diagnosis (Childress, nd)

This is a response to a parent’s email requesting advice on assessment and diagnosis of AB-PA (“parental alienation”).

Professional Consultation Booklet Introduction

This is the introduction to my booklet, Professional Consultation.

Domestic Violence Support Letter (Childress, 2015)

This is a letter I wrote in support of conceptualizing “parental alienation” as IPV spousal abuse (Intimate Partner Violence)

Support Letter for Changes to Child Abuse Reporting Laws (Childress, nd)

This is a letter of support for changes to the child abuse reporting laws.

Legislation Support Letter (Childress, 2016)

This is a de-identified letter of support I wrote for legislation to change the child abuse reporting laws.

Professional-to-Professional Consultation Handout

This is a handout for parents to provide to their involved mental health professional explaining the pathology.

Parent Individual Support Letter (Childress, 2016)

This is a generic letter I wrote for parents to parents, they could request this letter personalized.

Hostile-Rejecting Child: Professional-to-Professional Letter of Diagnostic Concern

This is a letter for parents to provide to their involved mental health professional explaining the pathology surrounding the hostile-rejecting child.

Anxious Child: Professional-to-Professional Letter of Diagnostic Concern

This is a letter for parents to provide to their involved mental health professional explaining the pathology surrounding the anxious child.

Letter to Bystanders (teachers, etc) Regarding Parental Alienation Pathology.

Many parents asked me to write a generic letter to teachers and other “bystanders” explaining the “parental alienation pathology.

Parents Coping with Trauma

This essay is for parents to help them cope with the emotional abuse and trauma they are experiencing.

Ju-jitsu Parenating: Fighting Back from the Down Position (2013)

This is an essay I wrote to help parents with a communication strategy to disarm false reality.

Issues in Recovering the Now-Adult Child of Alienation

This essay discusses the psychological issues of recovering the now-adult alienated child.

Pathogenic Parenting and the Attachment System: Question & Answer Format (Childress, 2012)

This is an early general handout to educate about the attachment system and the pathology of “parental alienation” (pathogenic parenting).

Enmeshed Relationship: Question & Answer Format (Childress, 2012)

This is an early general handout to educate on the enmeshed relationship (psychological fusion)

Licensing Board Complaint Letter Template

This is an example template for the ethical code violations surrounding “parental alienation” pathology.

Dr. Childress: Letters to the Child

Letter to Mary

This is a generic letter to a female child with a targeted parent mother.

Letter to Jason

This is a generic letter to a male child with a targeted parent father.

Letter to Jessica

This is a generic letter to a female child with a targeted parent father.

Letter to John

This is a generic letter to a male child with a targeted parent father.