ARE AKADEMI - Collegium Europaeum. Arreschovian academy since anno 1658. "Primum non nocere" (Hippocrates, 4th century BC). Alliance for the Child is a competence-based lasting initiative for building a medical research and social action program on a solid foundation of interdisciplinary knowledge. This distinguishes us from an overflow of opinion-based populism in media and conventional politicized organisations. We provide solid metadiagnostic competence to detect systemic dysfunctionality in organizations, and advise on the effective care and cure. Follow the path of truth from victims to victory.

  

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Medical insignia at Asklepion temple, Pergamon (4th c. BC to 2nd c. AD), first retreat modeling an asylum for psychiatric treatment in Western culture

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'Crucifixion of the Father' (oratorium), mid-section of Majestas Domini, Arreskow Castle (1558), Cistercian abbey Insula Dei (1172), Fuen, Denmark

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 EU PROVIDES A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR A STRATEGIC POLICY ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AND THE EU CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IS COORDINATING AN AGENDA FOR THE BROAD INTEREST OF THE CHILD AS ORGANIZED BY EUROCHILD. THIS SITE INTENDS TO IMPLEMENT A GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT INSTITUTIONALIZED SANCTION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL CHILD ABUSE (PAD/PAS), TO PROTECT INNOCENT TARGET PARENTS (TP), THEIR CHILDREN AND YOUNG VICTIMS AGAINST PARENTAL ALIENATION- A PROJECT TO DISCLOSE HIDDEN ROOTS OF SOCIAL SYSTEM FAILURE PERMISSIVE OF ALIENATING PARENTS (AP) IN PURSUIT OF THEIR ABUSE IN MISALLIANCE WITH SOCIETY - TOWARDS A PROGRAM FOR COUNTERING OF RECURRING FORMS OF SOCIOPATHOLOGICAL STATE SANCTIONED PERSECUTORY VICTIMIZATION OF PATERNAL PARENTING IN MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY. (OFFENTLIGT SANKTIONERAD PSYKOSOCIAL MISSHANDEL AV BARN, UNGA OCH FRÄMMANDEGJORDA FÖRÄLDRAR SLÄKT OCH NÄRSTÅENDE I SAMBAND MED FÖRÄLDRAALIENATIONSSYNDROM I SVERIGE? - Follow a case of PAS in Sweden.

We have chosen to let the resistance against the PAS (or "PAD" for DSM-V) type of abuse be symbolized by the energetic icon from Codex Gigas, an early 13th century Bohemian Benedictine manuscript, in Royal Library Stockholm. A global mobilisation is much needed to encourage an effective social action against any form of recent severely gender biased (including 'femifascist') exploitation of children and a variety of other forms of publicly sanctioned social exclusion (terror and persecution in the family) of those parents who suffer because they defend the human rights to health of the child and its core family values in European society...The sociopathology of systemic injustice is, as a background, reason to mobilize an alliance of global competence to combat emerging sociofascism: To familiarize yourself with these awkward phenomena of modern Western society, understand how such unworthy dysfunction of human rights became both politically possible in modern society, and a corollary of the deteriorating democracy in the 'perfect bureaucracy' of a country like Sweden, please explore the links relating to (and including 'Anatomy of a Witch Process') by Uppsala university civil rights professor Anders Agell (1930-2008), provided by his recently established foundation (Rättsstatens Vänner: * * * * *).

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Eurochild (*) is allied with EU: We develop the Alliance for the Child website to help protect children globally from violations of their human rights in partly convergence of mission to International Forensic Program of PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (PHR). PHR runs the program "Reuniting Families Separated by War" and defines the rationale for their work as follows: "PHR advocates health, dignity, and justice for all and that victims of violations of human rights and/or humanitarian law have a right to justice, the right to know the truth, and to have history recorded accurately in order to establish a historic record grounded in science and resistant to revisionism.  We believe this is a crucial step towards preventing leaders from acting with impunity and violating international humanitarian law."

ALLIANCE FOR THE CHILD is devoted to sharing this goal in its mission to mobilize protection of family victims from the harmful effects of  psychosocial torture - a variety of clustered types of terror - in parental alienation pertaining to the specific forms of abuse against children commonly defined as "PAS". Very few among organizations for HR care to notice the underlying discrimination of fathers as parents. European Union (EU) adopted The Charter of Fundamental Rights (*). Among civic NPOs for human rights, Open Society Institute (OSI) and Scholar Rescue Fund, funded by George Soros, are crucial for freedom of thought, the latter offering shelter for talents persecuted in repressive societies: "...the persecution of academics may serve as an indication that the political situation of a country is about to worsen." (SRF and IIE)

(written at Anna Lindh Library, Royal Institute of Technology main campus, Red Cross Hospital and Sophiahemmet University Colleges libraries, Stockholm September 11, 2007)

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CALL FOR ACTION TO FORM A GENDER-NEUTRAL GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN ORDER TO MONITOR, PREVENT AND ERADICATE ALIENATORY CHILD ABUSE.

We urge public health and policy organizations (global and regional) responsible for observation, research and social action, such as the World Medical Association (WMA links to organizations for health and human rights), WHO Europe office in Copenhagen, and the European Parliament, as well as private donors to jointly support this organizational initiative and provide funding for the suggested program to setting up the foundation ALLIANCE FOR THE CHILD for the cause of eradicating the phenomenon of PAS proven so harmful to psychosocial health of children and young people and their families. One question we should ask ourselves is - DO WE NEED TO REFORM THE ORDER OF JUSTICE IN SOCIETY FOR SOCIETY TO FUNCTION SAFELY?RECONSTRUCT OUR ENTIRE LEGAL SYSTEM ON A NEW AND SOLID VALUE GROUND FOR OUR CHILDREN TO BE SAVED FROM LIFELONG SUFFERING DUE TO THE IGNORANCE OF THE PRESENT LEGAL SYSTEM AND TO THE INCOMPETENCE IN HANDLING THESE CASES?

Any State that systematically fails to comply to the Rome Statute article 15 and to international conventions of human rights including the rights of the child in that it does neither provide nor enforce sufficient protection against prolonged damage caused by a variety of forms of severe PAS will be reported to the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague, to its experts and member states. Or, such cases of neglect can be reported to UNHCHR, the UN Rapporteur of rights to health, or if applicable, to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Strasbourg (cases of relevance) . (NGOs at CRIN and ISPCAN) It is essential  for any state among Western democracies that authorities allow human rights activists and civil society organizations to operate free of both oppression and state sanctioned family terror. This aims to mobilize the necessary legal efforts to organize a team (a modern style 'crusade' against ignorance) empowered to stop alienatory traumatization of parenting and related victimization of the child in civilized democracies. Sadly we have observed cases of a deteriorating ethics among self-asserted 'professionals' (including well-funded 'professors' at some BUP clinics specialized in converting alleged 'sexual abuse' to profitable media-attention but unaware of the basics of differential diagnostics) who are successfully pursuing their political or academic career agendas while disregarding the suffering among victims and targets of severe alienation. These are abuse facilitators. 

The raising of Lazarus - a key icon of the medical profession (Acolyte Room, St Paul's Greek Orthodox Church, Irvine, CA; from Orthodoxonline)

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ALLIANCE FOR THE CHILD

Towards

A Nordic Program for Competence Mobilisation to Combat Psychosocial Child Abuse

Proposing a

Transdisciplinary Competence Center for Integrative Social Medicine and Clinical Research for the Treatment and Care of Victims of PAS

THE ALLIANCE'S CHOICE OF ARTICLES REPORTS RESEARCH AND PROPOSALS TOWARDS A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE - selected references not update

THREE INITIAL METALINKS ON PAS: Diagnostic Manual, Metalinks, and Social Action (for introductory coursework please consult the metalink "collection of articles on PAS" under "Informative Websites" below)

Parental Alienation Disorder (PAD) and DSM-V: Proposal submitted to the Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence Work Group for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, August 6 2009, by William Bernet, MD, Wilfrid v. Boch-Galhau, MD, Joseph Kenan, MD, Joan Kinlan, MD, Demosthenes Lorandos, PhD JD, Richard Sauber, PhD, Bela Sood, MD, and James S Walker, PhD. (37 pp, published with permission of Prof. William Bernet Feb 6 2009)

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, Robert B Innis, MD PhD; Development and Affective Neuroscience,  Daniel Pine, MD; (* * *)

Barns rätt till två föräldrar - Brännpunkt, SvD, December 27, 1979 (in Swedish)

Children in Sweden and Perils of PAS - an account of the social problem, and of a dysfunctional societal system for protection of children in divorce, in Sweden

Föräldraalienation och psykosocial barnmisshandel - recension av två viktiga handböcker om PAS (in Swedish)

Nordiskt Kompetenscenter för behandling och klinisk forskning om PAS - motion till Regeringen. Proposal to the Swedish government. (in Swedish)

Förslag till FAS om plattform och nätverk för forskning om PAS ("Allians mot PAS") - 2007-02-14 (in Swedish) - in revision (May 25, 2008)

FNs rapport om rätten till hälsa i Sverige  - UN Rapporteur on rights to health Professor Hunt's Report to UNHCHR - a critical review of conditions in Sweden - and Sweden's Fourth Periodic Report to the UN Committe on the Rights of the Child 2002-2007 (in English) does, in a possible state of denial, not mention PAS, although statistics point at around 11% of children in Sweden having lost all contact with one of their parents, according to Barns Rättigheter / Comment to the UN report (forthcoming)

The UNICEF Innocenti research Center "An Overview of Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries", Card 7, 2007

Letter to former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan and Cardinal Professor Walter Kasper who both earned their Linnaeus honorary doctorates in Uppsala, in Spring 2007 (forthcoming)

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FATHERING, CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD PSYCHIATRY: Link to world leading nestors of research in conditions of fathering and its impact on the quality of father-child relationship and of the child psychosocial development: (1) Dr Kyle Pruett,  Clinical Professor in Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center and Yale School of Medicine, author of  books like Nurturing Fathers, Fatherneed and Me Myself and I and numerous articles and lectures listed in his cv, with related links (Alliance for Childhood, AFCC which provides resources for Restoring Play and information on works by Linda B Fieldstone, Christine A Coates, Nancy Williams Olesen and Leslie Drozd with Alienation Questionnaires with a chapter on Children and Absent Parents: A Model for Reconnection by Rhonda Freeman). In US both governmental bodies such as US Department of Health & Human Services and National Fatherhood Initiative as well as NGO initiatives  like the Civitas, Father's Forum Online are among organizations concerned with Fathers and Fathering. (2) Dr Remo Largo, Professor emeritus, Universität Zürich, paediatric expert in child development with scholarly publications and advisory books translated globally (wiki, phsh, research, cv), (3) Leading biopsychiatric expert on brain effects of the four types of abuse, Professor Martin H Teicher, McLean hospital, Harvard Medical School, reports four types of brain damage in breakthrough research (links and references to articles and his official homepage, article, cv): Clinical Unit Based Research - Biopsychiatric Development Research Program; the Dr Martin H Teicher blog on "brain development and child abuse/adversity" (links included with his permission): *  * .

SOCIAL ACTION PROGRAM PROPOSAL FOR DISCUSSION: - Read more... 

SOCIOLOGY AND SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY: Schismogenesis,  General Semantics,

THE DEVELOPING CHILD AS A VICTIM OF TERROR: Incubated in Terror - Neurodevelopmental Factors in the 'Cycle of Violence' by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. at Child Trauma Academy with Resources

PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: Recently and academy for rights of children, Barnrättsakademien, was inaugurated at Örebro university (with resources).

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In honor of  Dr. Richard A. Gardner (1931-2003), Columbia University, New York

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EXTERNAL LINKS TO METASITES AND SITES ON PAS

For recent articles and News on PAS search in MEDLINE and Medscape Paediatrics

Online Bibliographies on PAS - (metabibliographic list in progress)

Medline or PubMed search on Alienation, Parental Alienation (PA), Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and Parental Alienation Disorder (PAD),  PAS Attorney, Shared Parenting Information Group SPIG (UK) maintains an Article Base (updated by Delphi) 

Handbooks and Reference Literature

Dr. W. Boch-Galhau (2003) editor of PAS Conference volume: - The Parental Alienation Syndrome - An Interdisciplinary Challenge for Professionals Involved in Divorce, International Conference, Frankfurt am Main, 18.-19. October 2002 (We have received important updates in March 2008 on bibliography and international court decisions from Dr. Wilfrid Boch-Galhau and refer you to his hompage for further details: Dr. med. Wilfrid v. Boch-Galhau, PAS Arbetisgemeinschaft, www.drvboch.de and www.pas-konferenz.de )

Gardner, R A, Lorandos, D & Sauber, S R (2006) editors: The International Handbook on Parental Alienation Syndrome, USA 2006

Dr. Deirdre Conway Rand, forensic psychologist, Mill Valley (CA, USA), authored a competent tripartite survey, The Spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome (I - III), developed special courses targeting PAS and Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy at Zurinstitute, California, and, together with Randy Rand, EdD, a program for Intervention (Rand, D.C. (1997a). The Spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome Part I. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 15(3), 23-52, etc)

Hellblom Sjögren, Lena (PhD, certified forensic psychologist) (1997) Hemligheter och minnen - Att utreda tillförlitlighet i sexualbrottmål. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm. This thorough investigation of legal aspects relevant for the evaluation of evidence in court also contains concise passages on the PAS phenomenon (426 pages volume with full-size section of references and documentation; in Swedish)

Overview, Definitions and Diagnostics & List of selected peer review articles

Sherrie Bennett at Family Law Lawyers.com - Parental Alienation Syndrome - a concise bullet list / Paskids  is a basic overview, easy to read and understand, comprising the essentials under headlines such as symptoms, risk factors, stages and alienator types  / Stan Hayward's introduction on PAS - in English / Wikipedia article on PAS - CAVE - this is not up to required quality - please read with critical awareness / Richard Gardner's list of Peer review articles until 2003, not complete. A key paper by Gardner with his refutations addressing of the common misunderstandings of the definition of the PAS symptomatology is Recommendations for Dealing with.Parents Who Induce a Parental Alienation Syndrome in Their Children (J of Divorce and Remarriage, Vol 28, 3-4, 1998, 1-21) / Gardner, Richard A. : Commentary on Kelly and Johnston's 'The Alienated Child: A Reformulation of Parental Alienation Syndrome' in Family Court Review, 39 (3), July 2001, published posthumously in: Family Court Review, Vol 42 No 4, Oct 2004, pages 611-621. / A Diagnostic Manual for PAS - An overview of criteria and systems for the diagnosing of PAS (Areskoug) / Definitions of Emotional Abuse (in progress) (compiled) / Metalinks to Resources on PAS (in revision) (compiled)

Informative Websites (with further resources and links to references)

F.A.C.T. (Fathers Are Capable Too) - a formidable collection of articles on PAS from the Canadian site for social action. Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to deal with children in divorce in a responsible way. After reading the collection of articles, nobody can hide any longer. /  Dr. Richard A Gardner - links to his works on PAS and related resources for reference / Dr. R.A. Gardner:  Differentiating between Parental Alienation Syndrome and Bona Fide Abuse-Neglect, in: The American Journal of Family Therapy. Vol. 27, No. 2, p 97-107, April-June 1999. / Dr. med. Wilfrid von Boch-Galhau - PAS Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Würzburg Germany is a collaborative competence team for research and therapy on the syndrome.  Collaborators include certified psychologist U Kodjoe, W Andritzky PhD, and P Koeppel PhD in Law. Its homepage with links at www.drvboch.de and  www.pas-konferenz.de (see also under "Handbooks and Reference Literature"). Recent bibliographic updates (March 2008) and introductory articles include: Internationale Literatur zu PAS , PAS Literatur , DSM-V Koordinator 2008-04-21 engl , Introductive Remarks to PAS by Dr W v Boch-Galhau and Rundbrief engl 2008-04-18  / Dr L.F. Lowenstein - homepage with links.A New Book:  Dr L.F. Lowenstein: Parental Alienation- How to understand and address parental alienation resulting from acrimonious divorce or separation,  Russell House Publ 2007 / The "Stockholm syndrome" - there are some similarities between the "brainwashing aspect" of PAS and the so-called Stockholm syndrome (a term minted by late Dr Nils Bejerot, a noted social psychiatrist in Sweden) / Dr. J. Michael Bone, PhD, P.A. - homepage with links / Prof. Glenn Cartwright, Dean, McGill - homepage with links:  (I) and (II)  / Prof. Germund Hesslow, Lund, papers on "Feminismdebatten" - his critique and remarks in contribution to debate on feminism / Dr. Richard Warshak - homepage with links / in memoriam Dr. Rick Lohstroh - killed by his son in a state of induced PAS / Walter Andritzky et. al. - homepage with links / Dr. Deirdre Conway Rand /  Dr. M.L. King homepage with links / Dr. Katherine Andre homepage with links / Amy J.L. Baker, PhD, The Cult of Parenthood / Dr. Reena Sommer, USA - Resources and Articles / Simone Veil, ACALPA, French organization against PAS with links / Fathers are Capable Too - FACT - Canadian organization against PAS /  Children Held Hostage - study / Väteraufbruch and Vatersein - in German - and Verantwortungsvoll erziehende Väter, Schweiz, one of several Swiss organizations against PAS, with link to a paper by Horst Petri Psychosoziale Folgen des Vaterverlusts (Deutsche Ärzteblatt 2007; 104(22): A 1572–4) and his recent book:  Petri H: Das Drama der Vaterentbehrung. Herder (Herder, Berlin 2006) and links - in German - a conference paper (AIM Gender) by Jörg Fichtner: Väterlichkeit und Vaterrrecht / American Coalition for Fathers and Children ACFC and Childrens Justice / PAS Awareness Day; Things You Can Do / UK Men's Movement - hompage and links / Dr. Douglas Darnall, Phd, PsyCare Inc is a quality selection of links. His articles include What Does a Severely Alienated Child look like? Look for PAS Directory. His www.parentalalienation.com is a good starter / Robert A. Evans, PhD with resource page / Rachel Foundation - who runs a program for treatment of PAS. The site Stop Parental Alienation of Children provides resources including an informative article, "Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS): Its Causes, Cures, Costs, and Controversies", ranked as an excellent introductory account of the PAS phenomenon, by Jayne A. Major, Ph.D. Adult survivors of PAS are studied in books by Amy JL Baker, PhD, with suggested ways to solutions in her presentations. Daniel J Weigel & Kimberly A Donovan provide some new aspects in "PAS - diagnostic and triadic perspectives" in  The Family Journal 14, 3, 274-282 (2006).  

"Sapientia" means wisdom. Here it is symbolised by the icon of a music instrument. From Codex Gigas, early 13th century Benedictine manuscript now in Royal Library Stockholm. Great wisdom and courage will be required of the society that will once be the first on earth to eradicate the disease of PAS and of any psychosocial abuse of children and the young, and this will be possible only through establishing a competence center for integrative clinical, social and legal research and treatment of this deleterious condition.

INTERVENTION AND THERAPY PROGRAM FOR ALIENATED CHILDREN AND VICTIMS OF PAS (in progress) developed by ALLIANCE FOR THE CHILD . RULES are simple: (1) An alienator should never have custody, (2) If an alienator by error has custody it must be changed immediately to protect the child. No delay is permitted. These rules follow from the conventions of human rights. It is a crime to violate them.

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ACADEMIC MEDICAL RESEARCH is not listed here - it can easily be accessed through excellent medical search machines available at all medical universities (PubMed and Medline). For further reference see www.ki.se . Library resources or ask your own university librarian for assistance. As an example of research relevant to the issue of PA and PAS we refer to a recent longitudinal study that evidences the positive effects of fathers' involvement in the children's early life (A. Sarkadi, S Bremberg, et alia: Fathers' involvement in children's developmental outcomes: a systematic review of longitudinal studies, in: Acta Paediatrica 2008, 97, 153-58)

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NORDIC SITES ON PAS (in Scandinavian language - på svenska, norska eller danska)

Alliance for the Child - the present initiative, a collection of resources and alerts to incite a conserted competence action and combat the entrenched and prevailing ignorance that allows the syndrome of PA and PAS to shamefully still prevail in our modern societies.

 Stan Hayward Föräldra Alienations Syndrom / Umgängesrätts Föräldrarnas Riksförbund, UFR - Märt Söber / Föräldrajouren - Information om PAS linking to a report in DN with Agnetha Svensson and Gösta Emtestam on PAS in Sweden "Barn kan fås att hata sin pappa" (DN March 2, 2003) /Pappa-Barn - ny svensk organisation / Barns rättigheter / Arne Wirén / Lena Celander-Jörgensen /  Ole Texmo, Krisesenter, Norge / Transkulturellt Centrum Stockholms läns landsting / Ericastiftelsen / UNICEF Barnkonventionen och Barns rättigheter i Sverige

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