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Reunification therapy (RT) is a form of intensive family therapy that is frequently court-ordered when a parent-child connection has been somehow disrupted  and has culminated in a child refusing to spend time with one parent during a separation of parents or after a divorce. There are many circumstances that can lead to one parent being a “ preferred parent” and the other being a “rejected parent.” 

Some of the factors that can contribute to one parent being favored and on being rejected include: 

• Emotionally and or physically traumatic conflict during marriage and after the divorce
• Mental health issues from one or both parents
• Substance and alcohol abuse
• Aggressive and constant litigation
• Lack of healthy/positive Coparenting
• A disrespectful abusive parent to the other parent and or children
• Unhealthy codependency or enmeshment between a parent/child
• Poor parenting skills-rejected parent
• Alienation by the favored parent to rejected parent, goal to disconnect the children from the “bad parent”
• Personality differences between the child and rejected parent
• Family dynamics 
• There is much research that suggests that disconnections in parent/child relationships negatively impact children in many ways.

Please reach out here with questions or to schedule a consultation. Dr Burke