This is an announcement from the Parental Alienation Study Group conference committee.
Save the Date!
7th Annual Parental Alienation Study Group Conference
September 10-12, 2025
Toronto, Canada, Marriott Downtown at Eaton Centre
Join us in September 2025 in the vibrant city of Toronto, Canada for the 7th Annual Parental Alienation Study Group Conference. Stay the weekend and experience the magnificent Niagara Falls, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and many other exciting happenings throughout the city. In Toronto, there is something for everyone.
2025 Theme
Best practices in parental alienation assesment, intervention & advocacy: a roadmap for judicial accuracy and resolution.
Throughout the 2-day conference, we will collectively shift from debating the existence and nature of parental alienation to empowering the judiciary with the latest tools and scholarly knowledge for legal accuracy in cases involving parental alienation and other forms of family violence.
Attendees will gain insight into research driven strategies for fair, science-based decision making in Courts that lead to tangible outcomes for families.
Call for papers
Deadline: March 31, 2025
If you are interested in submitting a proposal to present at the 7th Annual Parental Alienation Study Group Conference in Toronto, please prepare a title and abstract (no longer than 250 words), as well as a short bio about yourself.
Several priority topics will be a focus of the conference due to their timely nature. We are particularty interested in presentation proposals focused on the following:
- New scientific advances
- Family violence, parental alienation, and shared parenting
- The voice of the child in court and mental health practice
- Clinical and legal issues in the treatment of alienating parents
- Evidence-based interventions for parental alienation
- Parental alienation in different international contexts
- Learning from clinical and legal failures
- Identifying and combatting mis/disinformation about parental alienation (in science, the court, media, and publishing)
- Kayden’s/Keira’s law and related legislative efforts
- Family mediation and family therapy in parental alienation cases
- Multidisciplinary approach to alienated children and restoring family bonds
In-person presentations will be livestreamed and recorded. Poster presentation proposals are also acceptable.
Please submit your proposal to submissions@pasg2025toronto.ca.
Submissions will be accepted until Monday, March 31, 2025.
Thank you, and we hope to see you in Toronto!
Update 19/02/2025
Early bird pricing available for a limited time only. Student and Virtual tickets also available.
Update 06/03/2025
Keynote Address
Mme. Justice Faye E. McWatt, Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, will facilitate a conversation between target parents including Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) of Dalle v Homme and Mr. X of the X v Y Canadian case.
The cases involved allegations of domestic violence and parental alienation. They were resolved with the help of Court orders that included reversals in decision-making authority, a minimum 90-day no contact period, and attendance at the Family Bridges workshop & aftercare.
Dr. Barbara Jo Fidler (psychologist) and Mr. Brian Hall (lawyer) will offer additional comments from a clinical and legal perspective.
Update 28/03/2025
Final Call for Submissions
March 31 Deadline
If you are interested in submitting a proposal to present at the 7th Parental Alienation Study Group conference in Toronto, please prepare a title and abstract (no longer than 250 words), as well as a short bio about yourself.
Please submit your proposal to submissions@pasg2025toronto.ca.
To register for the conference in-person and virtual, visit www.pasg2025toronto.ca
Announcement [PDF (155 Ko, 1 p.)].
Call for papers [PDF (131 Ko, 1 p.)].
Keynote address [PDF (111 Ko, 1 p.)].
Final Call [PDF (240 Ko, 1 p.)].
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