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"Why don't therapy, parent education, divorce mediation, and anger management work for obsessed alienating parents?"

These intervention programs do work in the mild and moderate cases of parental alienation. However, when a person is obsessed with ending the child's relationship with the other parent, it doesn't work at all. In fact, it's a mistake to send them to these programs.

Jayne A. Major, Ph.D. is the founder of Breakthrough Parenting Services in Los Angeles, CA and the author of Breakthrough Parenting: Moving Your Family from Struggle to Cooperation. She is nationally recognized as an award-winning expert in family education, a dynamic and inspiring speaker, author and consultant on optimal family relationships. She can be reached at (310) 823-7846.