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A Special Free Presentation from PAAO Pennsylvania

 

Please join Dr. Judith Pilla, and The Pennsylvania Chapter of PAAO, on July 17th in Hatboro, Pa for a special free presentation to help you understand how Parental Alienation affects children.

 

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The Pennsylvania Chapter of PAAO would like to invite everyone to a special free presentation given by Dr. Judith Pilla of Health Bridge Associates in King of Prussia, Pa.

 

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It will be given on July 17th at 7:00 pm, in the Annex
Building of the Hatboro Baptist Church, 32 North York Road Hatboro, PA 19040.   http://www.hatborobaptistchurch.org/

 

This presentation is not just for parents, it is for
everyone who cares enough to want to understand better.


All targeted parents of alienated children ask certain questions over and over in the search for answers. One constant question is: "What is my child really thinking?" These children's attitudes and behaviors can be highly contradictory, painful and baffling, leaving you to question their every response (or non-response).



To offer understanding, skills for relating, and some comfort for you as parents, Dr. Judith Pilla will explore how children “think” during the experience of an alienated lifestyle. This includes:

 


  • How children experience the ongoing
    pressure of their situation

  • How children develop their own
    internal logic to cope day-to-day

  • How children adapt to an almost
    impossible set of demands and expectations from parents

 

You will learn:

 


  • Key mental sets that children
    acquire to cope and how you can use these to guide your interactions

  • Which responses “work” and which can
    “make things worse”

  • How to create a basic set of
    relationship tools to rely on during difficult communications.

 

This presentation is being offered by a local professional with several years of experience in parental alienation and how it affects children and families.

Dr. Judith M. Pilla, PhD, LSW, PMHCNS-BC, is principal of Health Bridge Associates, a private psychotherapy practice in King of Prussia, PA. For over 10 years, she has worked intensively with victims of parental alienation, including targeted parents, extended family members, and children, adolescents, and adults who have been co-opted as alienators by one parent against the other. She focuses on the unique situation of each family, using phased treatment aimed at improving trust, connection and potential for recovery. Dr. Pilla is not a legal expert or evaluator. Her practice is limited to treating the mental, emotional, interpersonal and social consequences of parental alienation.



Dr. Pilla is a member of the international task force working to include PA/PAS as a diagnostic category in the DSM-5 and ICD-11. She also conducts research and publishes in the fields of parental alienation, psychiatry, and family relationship dynamics.


Dr. Pilla earned her PhD and MSS from Bryn Mawr College in clinical social work
and social research, and her BSN from Thomas Jefferson University. She is a licensed psychotherapist; professional social worker; advanced practice clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry; and a targeted parent of two adult children.

Her professional awards include the Rivitz Fellowship of Bryn Mawr College and charter membership in Sigma Theta Tau international honor society. She is on the Board of Directors of Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work and a member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.

 

Please plan to attend this special educational event. Even if you are not personally affected by parental alienation,
learning more can help you to understanding why this is such a very important issue that is affecting far too many children and their families that love and care about them.

For more information please contact
dholmes@paawareness.org   

 

 www.paawareness.org

 

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