Working with Adult-Child Survivors of Severe Parental Alienation Abuse: Survivors and Mental Health Practitioners' Perspectives: A Qualitative Study [Data Notes]

Working with Adult-Child Survivors of Severe Parental Alienation Abuse: Survivors and Mental Health Practitioners Perspectives. A qualitative study.By Alyse Price-Tobler The PhD thesis from USC Queensland is currently under embargo for one year, as directed by the Dean of Graduate Studies. However, the data notes associated with the thesis are accessible in the UniSC Research Bank and F1000Research, an open-access publishing platform affiliated with the Taylor & Francis Group.Regarding journal requests concerning the availability of data sets from the embargoed thesis for publication purposes, the following details are provided:Explanation of the rationale, protocol, and validation procedures for the datasets.Information outlining any limitations associated with the dataset.Guidance on where and how to access the dataset to be included in a Data Availability Statement.Formal data citation reference for the dataset.Abstract-These two studies present new insights into the perspectives of adult-child survivors of severe parental alienation (SPA) and their mental health practitioners (MHPs) in addressing the complex challenges of SPA support and treatment. The term adult-child survivor refers to a child who has grown up and been exposed to SPA by one of their parents. Parental alienation (PA) refers to a process in which one parent (referring to the alienating parent or AP) takes actions to negatively impact the relationship between a child and their other parent (known as the targeted parent or TP) (Haines et al., 2020, p. 3). This concept is defined as the alienating parents’ behaviours influencing the child to reject the TP without a reasonable explanation (Haines et al., 2020). The issue of childhood exposure to severe levels of parental alienating behaviours (PABs) is a prevalent and serious problem that can have long-lasting adverse effects on adult survivors. However, MHPs are often ill-equipped to work with adult survivors due to limited professional development and the lack of established best-practice treatment protocols for practitioners to reference. Therefore, this research has investigated survivors' perspectives and the MHPs who work with them regarding therapeutic practice. In particular, these two studies focus on identifying efficacious and counterproductive mental health practices.These two studies utilised a research methodology involving a social constructionist thematic analysis approach and a qualitative research design. In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data from eleven adult survivors of SPA and ten MHPs who were self-acknowledged as experts in treating adult survivors of parental alienation-severe level.

《重度亲子关系疏离虐待的成年子女幸存者研究：幸存者与心理健康从业者视角》
本研究为质性研究，由Alyse Price-Tobler完成。该博士学位论文来自昆士兰州阳光海岸大学（University of the Sunshine Coast, USC Queensland），目前按照研究生学院院长的要求，处于为期一年的保密限制期内。不过，与该论文相关的数据说明文档可在UniSC研究库以及与泰勒弗朗西斯集团（Taylor & Francis Group）合作的开放获取出版平台F1000Research中获取。
针对出版用途下关于获取该保密论文数据集的期刊投稿请求，现将相关细节说明如下：
1. 数据集的设计逻辑、研究方案与验证流程阐释；
2. 数据集相关局限性说明；
3. 关于在数据可用性声明（Data Availability Statement）中如何标注数据集获取渠道的指引；
4. 该数据集的正式引用格式。
摘要：本两项研究为重度亲子关系疏离（Severe Parental Alienation, SPA）的成年子女幸存者及其心理健康从业者（Mental Health Practitioners, MHPs）在应对SPA支持与治疗中的复杂挑战时的视角提供了全新见解。成年子女幸存者一词指已成年且曾遭受父母一方实施的SPA的个体。亲子关系疏离（Parental Alienation, PA）指某一父母（即疏离型父母，Alienating Parent, AP）采取行动，负面破坏子女与其另一方父母（即被疏离父母，Targeted Parent, TP）之间的关系（Haines等人，2020，第3页）。该概念被定义为：疏离型父母的行为促使子女在无合理解由的情况下排斥被疏离父母（Haines等人，2020）。童年时期暴露于重度亲子关系疏离行为（Parental Alienating Behaviours, PABs）是一个普遍且严重的问题，会对成年幸存者造成长期负面影响。然而，由于专业培训不足，且缺乏可供从业者参考的成熟最佳治疗方案，心理健康从业者往往难以胜任与成年幸存者的相关工作。因此，本研究围绕治疗实践，调查了幸存者与合作的心理健康从业者的视角。具体而言，两项研究聚焦于识别有效及适得其反的心理健康干预实践。本两项研究采用了社会建构主义主题分析法与质性研究设计的研究方法，并通过半结构化访谈收集了11名SPA成年幸存者与10名自称为重度亲子关系疏离成年幸存者治疗专家的心理健康从业者的数据。