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Sietske Dijkstra, PhD

Sociologist/researcher. A rare bridge figure who takes PA dynamics seriously while situating them firmly inside coercive-control and domestic-violence frameworks.

Why she matters here

Dijkstra's 2020 paper on mothers losing contact with daughters after divorce is one of the few European studies to apply coercive-control theory to alienation symmetrically. Important for the Dutch/Belgian context and for any reader who wants a non-polarised European clinical voice. Her work is what serious PA-recognition advocates have to answer to be credible on family-violence intersections.

Credentials & affiliation

  • PhD, sociologist/researcher
  • Member, Netherlands Institute of Psychologists
  • Bureau Dijkstra (independent research/training agency), Utrecht
  • Former Professor of Domestic Violence & Interagency Work, Avans University of Applied Sciences (until 2014)
  • Committee member, Dutch Schadefonds Geweldsmisdrijven (Violent Crimes Compensation Fund)

Key contributions

  • "'I did not see my daughters for years': The impact of coercive control on post-divorce relationships between mothers and children", Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2020.
  • "Listening to children and parents: Seven dimensions to untangle high-conflict divorce" in The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Brill, 2016).

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