WELCOME TO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN OSLO 4-6 SEPTEMBER 2024
Earlybird prices and abstract deadline is June the 1st
PASG 2024 OSLO
Promoting the child´s best interests
Wednesday 4 September 2024
17-19 Welcome Reception in Oslo Rådhus
Short speech by mayor Anne Lindboe Oslo City Council
Ole Asbjørn Næss – stand up
Hanne Ramsdal, an adult alienated as a child with two songs from her songplay called “Da(mne)d”
In a yet not decided location
19-20 Press conference, an erased mother and an adult, alienated as a child, introduce the topic of the conference. A brand new book will then be presented, a book to inform and inspire the millions of children and adults around every child harmed by what is called parent alienation. Eivind Meland, medical professor from Bergen, Norway, and Lena Hellblom Sjögren, Swedish researcher and investigative psychologist, co-ordinators for PASG 2024 wish you all welcome to this international conference Thursday and Friday.
Location for the conference: the Deichmann Library in Oslo City Centre
Posters and book tables outside the main conference room.
Participation fees:
Personal presence: 3000 NOK early bird before June the first (3500 NOK after) (lunch not included, as there is 90 minutes for lunch), 1000 NOK for students and PASG members.
Electronical participants: 1500 NOK, 500 NOK for students and PASG members.
Thursday 5 September 2024, 8-12
The child´s legal and human rights
8.00 Registration starts. Coffee, tea, water, biscuits
8.30 Welcome greetings and some practical information
8.40 William Bernet, Professor emeritus and guest of honor ”So many perspectives: Can we have constructive dialogue with critics and deniers of parental alienation theory?”
9.10 Five minutes break
9.15 Dialogue: An ex. judge at the ECHR and Geir Kjell Andersland, Norwegian politician and lawyer: How the ECHR has dealt with PA cases and how their judgement should influence other courts in Europe.
10.25 Five minutes break
10.30 Dialogue: Philip Marcus, retired family court judge from Israel and Camilla Bernt, Norwegian law professor: Major challenges for the pursuit of the child´s best interests in the legal system
11.20
11.50 Ashish Joshi, lawyer Ann Arbor, US: In the Best Interests of Children: How American Family Courts Have Assessed the Role of Parental Alienation in Child Custody Cases
12.30. LUNCH
Thursday 5 September 2024, afternoon, 14-17.30
The child´s fundamental needs and health
14.00 Lecture: Edward Kruk, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Canada: What are the child´s fundamental needs to promote health?
14.40 Lecture: Jennifer Harman, psychologist and assistant professor Ft Collins, Colorado, US: The promotion of the child´s best interests – New research with relevance for practice.
15.15 Ten minutes break
15.25 Lecture: Brian O´Sullivan, Founder Parental Alienation Europe, Founding Editor of the European Journal of Parental Alienation Practice: Reunification work in Ireland.
15.55 Videotaped lecture and on Zoom link 10 minutes: Pehr Granqvist, professor in psychology, Stockholm University. Attachment goes to court.
16.30 Lecture: Alan Blotcky, Clinical Associate Professor, Dept.of Psychology, University of Alabama: The ABCs of expert testimony in PA cases
17.00 Participants, in smaller gatherings, discuss: How does a
loss of a formerly loved and loving parent who is good enough affect a child?
17.30 Panel of some of the day´s presenters and comments from the participants. Moderators: Sigga Sólan, Iceland and Jesper Lohse, Denmark
18.00 END
19.00 Supper arrangement for the conference members who have chosen to have a meal together with other participants at the conference, and have paid in advance.
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Friday 6 September 2024, 8.30-12.00
Disturbed parent-child relations – damaging to the child
8.30 Film by Paulo Chavarria: “The bothersome father”
9.00 THREE PARALLEL SESSIONS IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
- Research Break out room 1
Research, adequate help and adequate concepts for children at risk
Moderators: Else Marit Inderberg and Eivind Meland who work out a detailed program for these presentations, and also a panel discussion led by them.
9.05 Preludium, dialogue by Stan Korosi, PhD and administrator of Family Bridges, Robert A Simon, forensic psychologist, and Jartrud Sofie Frafjord, psychologist, family therapist, and leader of the national competence team for children in family protective services
9.45 Norwegian and international researchers present their research relevant to
promoting the child´s best interests.
12.30 LUNCH
- Research Breakout room 2
Research and law (reform)
Moderators: Øyvind Østerberg and Robert Sandholm who work out a detailed program for these presentations, and also a panel discussion led by them.
9.05 Preludium by William Fabricius, who in a youtube interview made by Sigga Sólan and Brjann Jónsson, tells about Research that changed the law statutes in Arizona, USA
9.15 International researchers present their research relevant to
laws promoting the child´s best interests.
12.30 LUNCH
- Experiences and mastering Breakout room 3
Targeted by the loss of a loved one, but not because of physical death
Moderators: Sigga Solán and Brjánn Jónsson who work out a detailed program for these presentations, and also summarize at the end. Summarizing translations from Norwegian to English is offered.
9.05 Preludium one: Hanne Ramsdal, a Norwegian adult who experienced the loss of a contact with a parent during her childhood
9.20 Preludium two: Bryan Souders. US-father with two adult daughters with a Swedish mother tells about his experiences presented in his book
9.40 Experiences and knowledge needed presented and discussed by parents, grandparents, and adult children who were alienated when they were young.
12.30 LUNCH
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Friday 6 September 2024, 14.00-18.00
Relevant help for the child
14.00 Reports from the three parallel seminars about research, law making, poster presentations and experiences from Friday morning that gives ideas what can be helpful for a child living under coercive control, learning to hate a formerly loved parent.
Moderators: Eivind Meland and Lena Hellblom Sjögren
14.40 Lecture: Early interventions, scientifically based Charlie Azzopardi, Family therapist in Malta and co-founder of the Masters program in Parental Alienation together with Brian Sullivan.
15.20 Short break
15.30 Dialogue Family reunification – failures and success
Brian Ludmer, attorney, Canada, one of the drafters of Canada´s proposed shared parenting legislation and Marie-France Carlier, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Dinant
16.10 Five minutes break
16.15 Dialogue Social responses to the concept of family and violations of the child´s human right to family life, Teresa Silva, assistant professor, Mid University,
Sundsvall, Sweden and Stan Korosi, Phd, Fellow, School of Law and Society, UniSC, Australian Administrator – Family Bridges Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
16.55 Five minutes break
17.00 Panel summarizing conclusions about what is most important to promote the child´s best interests.
Moderators: William Bernet and Øivind Østberg
17.40 Closing remarks, 3 minutes each.
Eivind Meland, alienated child, targeted parent, targeted grandparent, Lena Hellblom Sjögren, William Bernet, founder and president for PASG, Parental Alienation Study Group, and Philip Hendrix, president elect for PASG.
18.00 See you next year at the next PASG 2025 conference in a country not decided, perhaps Malta where there is a lot done for “happy parents and happy children”.
WELCOME on a boat tour on the Oslo Fjord Saturday the 7th of September 2024!
We kindly ask you who wish to submit abstracts for oral presentations in one of the open sessions Friday morning, or posters and presentations of books/papers, to write to the scientific committee according to instructions and deadlines presented on the website pasg.no. Extended deadline is June the first.
Guide on Article 8 of the Convention – Right to respect for private and family life. d. Parental allowances, custody/access, and contact-rights” 343. There is a broad consensus – including in international law – in support of the idea that in all decisions concerning children, their best interests must be paramount (Strand Lobben and Others v. Norway [GC], § 207; Neulinger and Shuruk v. Switzerland [GC], § 135; X v. Latvia [GC], § 96). The child’s best interests may, depending on their nature and seriousness, override those of the parents (Sahin v. Germany [GC], § 66). The parents’ interests, especially in having regular contact with their child, nevertheless remain a factor when balancing the various interests at stake (Neulinger and Shuruk v. Switzerland, § 134). The child’s best interests dictate that the child’s ties with the family must be maintained, except in cases where the family has proved particularly unfit. It follows that family ties may only be severed in very exceptional circumstances and that everything must be done to preserve personal relations and, if and when appropriate, to “rebuild” the family (Gnahoré v. France, § 59 and for a review of the case-law, Jansen v. Norway, §§ 88-93).
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