Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D.: “Beyond the high road: Responding to 17 parental alienation strategies without compromising your morals or harming your child.”

Helpful advice on PAS coping strategies has been published by Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D.: “Beyond the high road: Responding to 17 parental alienation strategies without compromising your morals or harming your child.” It can be ordered from her website via the website and it costs only a fiver.

I’ve bought this book and I found it helpful in the way of support. I can recommend it to anyone targeted with the PA, who has access to the child. Here’s a part from the Introduction chapter:

“The purpose of this paper is to provide you as a targeted parent with an array of possible responses to parental alienation that, if implemented according to the principles described in Part III, will help you to maintain your moral integrity and avoid actions that are likely to harm your child. While it remains unknown whether these responses will prevent the decline in the parent-child relationship, they should at a minimum provide targeted parents with more tools and greater flexibility, which could prevent targeted parents from becoming depressed and emotionally unavailable or angry and reactive.

It is assumed throughout this paper that you have some ongoing access to and relationship with your child, which has not deteriorated to such an extent that the child is a complete and willing participant in the alienation and that you have some access to the other parent, in person as well as through mail, e-mail, and voice message.

The steps, principles, and responses offered in this paper build on the findings generated from a program of research on parental alienation conducted by the first author, notably interviews with 40 adults who believed that when they were children they were manipulated by one parent to reject their other parent (results presented in the 2007 book, Adult children of parental alienation syndrome: Breaking the ties that bind, written by Amy J.L. Baker and published by W.W. Norton) and surveys of close to 100 parents who believed that the other parent of their child was trying to turn their child against them (results reported in an article written by Amy J.L. Baker and Doug Darnall in 2006, published in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage). Both Richard Warshak (2001) and Doug Darnall (1998) also offer suggestions for targeted parents.”