Alienation and Alignment: The Mechanisms of Accommodation of Attachment Security:

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. When both Actor and Object Are Caregivers (Co-Parents)In contemporary usage, the alienated child, PAS, and PA are all intended to describe the instance in which one caregiver’s words or actions (actor) cause a child to become less secure with a second caregiver or co-parent (object), resulting in the child’s resistance to or refusal of contact with the latter.7 This is co-parental alienation, the more emotionally evocative and politically charged dynamic due to the insidious, intrafamilial nature of the act. Co-parental alienation does not imply that the act is mutual or reciprocal among parents.
In contrast, co-parental alignment describes the presumably healthy, appropriate, and mutually supportive dynamic in effect when one caregiver’s words or actions serve to increase the child’s security with a second caregiver. Co-parental alignment is a useful tool, for example, when a child resists visits with a caregiver due to simple separation anxiety. In this instance, one caregiver’s explicit endorsement of another can serve to reinforce the child’s security in the latter and help to overcome anxiety that is not associated with that caregiver, per se.

The terms co-parental alienation and co-parental alignment are useful to extent that the intra-familial dynamics inherent in this description are distinguished from those instances in which an extra-familial actor’s words and/or actions impact the child’s IWM of a caregiver (parental alienation or co-parental alignment). These terms are more precise than Johnston and Kelly’s (2001) reference to the “aligned parent” and the “target parent” to the extent that they allow clear discussion of those instances in which the parties involved in the dynamic are not co-parents. Given the distinctions of the present model, an “aligned parent” can impact a child’s IWM in any relationship as in the case of therapist alienation (Garber, in press) just as a “target parent” can be the object of the words and/or actions of any party, including but not only a co-parent (actor).

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