Research
The Family Bridges workshop and Aftercare Protocol are the most documented and researched interventions for severely alienated children and their parents. A centralized database provides rich opportunities for research projects. Here are a few current research topics:
Family Bridges Workshop and Aftercare: 18 years of data
Dr. Yvonne M. Parnell
This study examines the outcome of 32 families (67 children) court-ordered to attend Family Bridges workshops and Family Bridges aftercare. Family Bridges aftercare is the first known standardized protocol for working with alienating parents. This data is believed to be the first of its kind and will be useful to judges, lawyers, and mental health professionals working with these complex families.
(submitted to Family Court Review Oct 2024)
An independent analysis of Family Bridges workshops and aftercare outcome data
Dr. Amanda Sharples
Dr. Sharples is conducting an independent evaluation of the outcome data of Family Bridges workshops and Family Bridges aftercare on Canadian cases.
An autoethnographic analysis of ‘waking up’ from the horror of international parental abduction and severe parental alienation: the lived experience of a young girl and her mother
Dr. Yvonne M. Parnell
This paper centers around the journal entries of a young girl abducted by her father to a non-Hague Convention country and her mother’s contemporaneous accounts of legal battles in 3 countries to reunite with her abducted daughters.
Increased cognitive skills after participating in a Family Bridges workshop
Dr. Amanda Sharples, Dr. Yvonne M. Parnell, Hannah Flowerday
This study examines a common observation made by target parents and aftercare providers that the participant children’s cognitive abilities increase following participation in the Family Bridges workshop.
As these works become published, this page will be updated with relevant links.
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