While we know targeted parents can't independently stop parental alienation, this workshop focuses on building empathy for targeted parents while increasing their resiliency. Targeted parents are often faced with unnerving and unsolvable dilemmas. While they seek to resolve them, confounding stress builds. Most average to above average range parents can suffer exasperation, panic, and desperation. In my work with targeted parents, I’ve often witnessed rejected parents being tragically seduced into making mistakes while they are in the throes of the 5 common Dilemmas. These mistakes can occur with children, co-parents, and mental health and legal professionals. By explaining the 5 Common Dilemmas targeted parents often find themselves in, workshop participants will better understand how targeted parents can get seduced into making the common mistakes. Participants in this workshop will better understand targeted parents and be better positioned to strategically intervene and enable targeted parents to be more keen, nimble, and resilient when interacting and coping with alienated children, and the mental health and legal professionals they encounter.
Randy Flood, MA, LLP has specialized in providing psychological services for individuals and families involved in family and criminal courts since 1992. He provides evaluation, parenting coordination, and parent-child reunification counseling at the Fountain Hill Center in Grand Rapids particularly when resist and refuse dynamics (RRD’s) are present on the spectrum of parent-child contact problem including cases of parental alienation and/or estrangement/abuse. Flood offers testifying and non-testifying expert consultation for attorneys and coaching for rejected/targeted parents as well as helping parents cope and navigate the world of custody and parenting time litigation. As director of the Men’s Resource Center of West Michigan, he recently launched a parental alienation support group for targeted fathers. He is the co-author of two books, a prolific speaker and trainer, and a media consultant in his areas of expertise.
