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The Importance of Self-Care for Alienated Parents and Grandparents - Dr. Mary Alvarez

When a parent's relationship with a child is interrupted, damaged, and/ or lost, it is psychologically devastating to that parent. As the focus for alienated parents becomes making sense of how this happened and what they can do to regain and repair the relationship with their child, their self-care often wanes or disappears altogether. This presentation will discuss not only the importance of self-care as part of the process to repair or regain a parent-child relationship, but some basic, but powerful, self-care strategies. Mary Alvarez, PhD earned her doctorate in developmental psychology with an emphasis in cognitive development and neurodevelopment from the University of Houston. Dr. Alvarez, a licensed psychologist for twenty-five years in Texas, has both a forensic and a clinical practice and she specializes in evaluating and treating high conflict families. As a result of her forensic work in family law as a custody evaluator, Dr. Alvarez has evaluated and witnessed the devastating psychological effects on children whose parents are involved in chronic high conflict, including parental alienation. Dr. Alvarez recognized the need to focus on prevention and early intervention of parental alienation, so she codeveloped Resetting the Family to evaluate and intervene with high conflict parents and families that include mild and moderate parental alienation as part of the conflict.