Mental Health Matters
Forensic Edition
January 2018
 
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 Reunification Therapy Popularity in Court Orders: A Deep Dive into RT

Reunification therapy is a form of family therapy often court-ordered when a parent-child contact problem has culminated in the child refusing to spend time with one parent. This type of refusal is typically seen in separated or divorced families in which there is a favored parent and a rejected parent. It is a common mistake to assume this occurs due to parental alienation, as that is only one potential cause of a parent-child relationship rift. A child may reject a parent due to that parent having said or done things that greatly upset the child, a pathological attachment to an abusive parent, a desire to avoid conflict, an enmeshment with an emotionally dependent or needy parent, and/or a shared delusional belief about one parent with a very disturbed, thought-disordered and powerful parent (this latter possible cause is often referred to as parental alienation).
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