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LATAM Therapists & Clinicians — Parental Alienation Practitioner Directory

Schema version: 1.0 Last updated: 2026-05-25 License: CC BY 4.0 (intended for github.com/AntiAlienate/antialienate-knowledge) Region: LATAM (BR / MX / AR / CO / CL) Scope: Latin-American psychiatrists, psychologists (clinical / forensic / academic), psicólogos peritos, and clinical social workers who have (a) worked PA cases as treating clinician or court-appointed expert (perito forense / perito judicial), (b) published on alienação parental / alienación parental in a peer-reviewed venue or recognised professional publication, or © publicly stated a sourced stance (recognition / critique / middle) on PA. Institutional entries (national psychology councils, national child-protection bodies, victim-services networks) are listed where the institution itself has issued a sourced PA position.

Standards: Primary sources only — national register entries where searchable, practice / institutional website, peer-reviewed publications, court records, named press. Where a fact could not be confirmed from a public primary source it is flagged "not publicly confirmed".

Stance taxonomy: - recognition — treats alienação parental / alienación parental as a real, assessable phenomenon; operates or endorses PA-specific assessment, expert-witness or reunification work; typically PASG / CEAP / GARI-PA-aligned. - critique — argues the PA construct (especially Gardner's SAP) is operationalised against DV / coercive-control survivors (predominantly mothers and children); advocates DV/trauma-informed alternatives and tighter regulation of expert witnesses; supports repeal of Lei 12.318/2010 or jurisprudential proscription as in Colombia 2023. - middle — engages both alienating-behaviour and family-violence frames; differential-diagnosis or systemic / multi-family approach; not aligned with PASG and not in the abolitionist critique camp.

Critical LATAM regulatory & policy context (must read before using this directory):

Cross-references to other antialienate-knowledge directories: - Mauricio Luis Mizrahi (Argentina) is in /practitioners-latam-lawyers.md as a jurist; he chairs CEAP Argentina but is not a therapist — kept in the lawyers file. Pedro Herscovici (psychiatrist) is the CEAP psychiatric pairing and is the AR recognition-camp clinical entry here. - William Bernet (USA, CEAP member, GARI-PA), Asunción Tejedor Huerta (ES) — full entries in /practitioners-us-therapists.md and /practitioners-eu-therapists.md respectively. - Sonia Vaccaro (Argentine-born, Madrid-based clinical/forensic psychologist) is principally listed in /practitioners-eu-therapists.md under Spain; cross-listed at end of Argentina section here because she is the most cited Spanish-language critique-camp clinician on the Argentine PA debate. - CFP Brazil Nota Técnica 4/2022 is also cited in /jurisdictions/brazil/ and in /evidence-international-institutional-positions.md. - COLPSIC 2023 position + Corte Constitucional T-526/23 are in /case-studies/ and in /evidence-international-institutional-positions.md.

Brazil

Brazil's clinical-psychology terrain is uniquely polarised in 2026. The CFP Nota Técnica 4/2022 institutionally instructs psicólogos not to ground their analyses in Lei 12.318/2010; IBDFAM and a strong São Paulo / Rio recognition-camp clinical literature (Calçada, Brazil, Perissini) push back. Practitioners cluster sharply by camp.

1. Dra Andreia Soares Calçada

2. Glicia Barbosa de Mattos Brazil

3. Dra Denise Maria Perissini da Silva

4. Profa Esther Maria de Magalhães Arantes, PhD

  • Country / city: BR / Rio de Janeiro
  • Practice / affiliation: Professora aposentada do Departamento de Psicologia da PUC-Rio; Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Políticas Públicas e Formação Humana, UERJ (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); contribuidora histórica da Cartilha de Direitos Humanos do CFP
  • Practice URLs: Escavador profile https://www.escavador.com/sobre/9775671/esther-maria-de-magalhaes-arantes ; CFP cartilha Os Direitos Humanos na Prática Profissional dos Psicólogos https://site.cfp.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2004/05/cartilha_dh.pdf
  • Regulatory body: CRP-05 (Rio de Janeiro) — Psicóloga; titulação Boston University (PhD em Educação 1981)
  • Registration number: not publicly displayed
  • Specialty: História da assistência à infância no Brasil; políticas públicas para crianças e adolescentes; psicologia e direitos humanos; crítica à instrumentalização forense da psicologia em Varas de Família
  • Stance: critique
  • Stance source: Arantes, Transtornos do Amor Parental (POLÊM!CA / UERJ) https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/polemica/article/view/2817 ; co-organisadora da publicação Debatendo sobre Alienação Parental: diferentes perspectivas (CFP 2019) — a publicação institucional que precedeu a Nota Técnica 4/2022 (CFP page https://site.cfp.org.br/cfp-divulga-orientacoes-sobre-a-atuacao-profissional-em-relacao-a-alienacao-parental/) ; participação em Os Direitos Humanos na Prática Profissional dos Psicólogos (CFP)
  • Programs / publications:
  • Transtornos do Amor Parental (POLÊM!CA, UERJ)
  • Co-organisadora da CFP Debatendo sobre Alienação Parental: diferentes perspectivas (2019) — precursora da NT 4/2022
  • Contribuidora histórica à Cartilha de Direitos Humanos do CFP
  • PPFH/UERJ research line on psychology of human rights and children's policy
  • Primary contact: UERJ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Políticas Públicas e Formação Humana — institutional channel; PUC-Rio Departamento de Psicologia (retired faculty channel)
  • Tier: 1
  • Hook: The senior intellectual / doctoral-supervisor anchor of the Brazilian critique camp inside the CFP system; the academic figure who lent credibility to the CFP 2019 Debatendo publication that became NT 4/2022.

5. Profa Leila Maria Torraca de Brito, PhD

6. Dra Analicia Martins de Sousa, PhD

7. INSTITUTIONAL — Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP)

  • Country / city: BR / Brasília (federal sede; 24 CRPs regional)
  • Institution: Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP) — federal autarquia, regulador profissional dos psicólogos brasileiros
  • Practice URLs: https://site.cfp.org.br/ ; Nota Técnica 4/2022 https://site.cfp.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SEI_CFP-0698871-Nota-Tecnica.pdf ; CFP page on orientações https://site.cfp.org.br/cfp-divulga-orientacoes-sobre-a-atuacao-profissional-em-relacao-a-alienacao-parental/
  • Regulatory body: Self (federal regulator of all CRPs)
  • Specialty: Federal regulation of psychological practice in Brazil; PA-specific institutional doctrine for psicólogos
  • Stance: critique (institutional)
  • Stance source: CFP Nota Técnica nº 4/2022/GTEC/CG (Sep 2022) — process 576600003.000068/2022-53; 9 recommendations to the category including the instruction that psicólogos "não fundamentem suas análises e conclusões sobre integrantes do grupo familiar e de suas dinâmicas relacionais com base no ilícito civil definido pela Lei como alienação parental" and explicit recognition that PA allegations "incidem predominantemente sobre mães guardiãs, evidenciando portanto um viés de gênero" ; precursor publication Debatendo sobre Alienação Parental: diferentes perspectivas (CFP 2019); IX CNP 2016 resolution mandating the document
  • Programs / publications:
  • Nota Técnica nº 4/2022/GTEC/CG — the doctrinal anchor for the Brazilian institutional critique camp
  • Debatendo sobre Alienação Parental: diferentes perspectivas (CFP 2019 caderno de textos)
  • CRP-09 Relatório sobre Alienação Parental (2023) https://transparencia.cfp.org.br/crp09/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2023/07/Relatorio-do-CRP-09-sobre-Alienacao-Parental.pdf
  • Joint nota técnica with CFESS (assistentes sociais) Dec 2022 https://www.cfess.org.br/arquivos/nota-tecnica-LAP-2022-dez.pdf
  • Primary contact: CFP, SAUS Quadra 03 Lote ⅚, Bloco L, Edifício CFP, Brasília/DF — https://site.cfp.org.br/ contact form
  • Tier: 1
  • Hook: The single most authoritative Brazilian institutional voice on the critique side — its NT 4/2022 is what feminist coalitions cite when arguing the clinical profession itself rejects the Lei 12.318 framework. Cite alongside CFESS joint note.
  • Notes: IBDFAM published a counter-article ("Alienação parental, o teor inconstitucional e antiético da Nota Técnica nº 4-2022 -GTEC-CD" https://ibdfam.org.br/artigos/1916/) — useful as the recognition-camp legal-academic rebuttal anchor.

Brazil — entries considered and excluded

  • Maria Berenice Dias — already listed in /practitioners-latam-lawyers.md as a jurist (Desembargadora ret., advogada). She is not a psicóloga / therapist; excluded here for category fit despite being central to the BR PA literature.
  • Priscila Faria de Freitas — verifiable hits returned Priscila Maria Pereira Corrêa da Fonseca (Faculdade de Direito USP, not a psicóloga). No primary source confirms a psicóloga named "Priscila Faria de Freitas" working on PA; not publicly confirmed as a clinician — excluded.
  • Ana Paula da Costa — multiple "Ana Paula" psicólogas exist (Ana Paula Costa Cabral, Ana Paula Medeiros TJ-SP) but no primary source confirms a single PA-clinical figure under the brief name; not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Glicia Brazil's CRP number — confirmed registered with CRP-05 via institutional employment (TJRJ + FMP-RS + PUC-Rio Coordenadora) but specific CRP-05 number not publicly displayed on her site.

Mexico

Mexico's PA-clinical landscape is sparse but polarised: SCJN's 2021 Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia and Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 (Oaxaca) frame the doctrinal critique anchor; the recognition camp is concentrated in GARI-PA / PASG-Hispanic under Mendoza-Amaro. There is no Mexican equivalent of CFP NT 4/2022.

1. Dr Alejandro Mendoza-Amaro, MD PhD

  • Country / city: MX / Morelia, Michoacán (Xengua 106, Col. Bosque Camelinas, C.P. 58290)
  • Practice / affiliation: Jefe de Enseñanza e Investigación, Hospital Psiquiátrico "Dr. José Torres Orozco" (Secretaría de Salud de Michoacán) since Aug 2018; Presidente del Capítulo Hispano de Global Action for Research Integrity in Parental Alienation (GARI-PA); Miembro Parental Alienation Study Group (PASG) since 31 March 2019; Delegado Científico Asociación Mexicana de Padres de Familia Separados (AMPFS) since Jan 2018; Miembro Comité Científico CEAP Argentina
  • Practice URLs: https://mendozaphd.wixsite.com/website ; LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandromendozaamaromdphd/ ; Aprende en Línea CV https://aprendeenlinea.cr/cv-alejandro-mendoza-amaro/ ; ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandro-Amaro-4
  • Regulatory body: Cédula Profesional / SEP as Médico Cirujano y Partero (MD 1999-2006) + Lic. Psicología Educativa (1997-2001) + Maestría en Ciencias de la Salud (2008-2011) + PhD Psicología (2015-2018, Universidad de Guadalajara). Cédula number not publicly displayed.
  • Registration number: not publicly displayed
  • Specialty: Psiquiatría / psicología clínica; abuso infantil; trastornos mentales; neurociencia; alienación parental; evaluación forense; suicidología
  • Stance: recognition
  • Stance source: Mendoza-Amaro (2021) Amicus Curiae sobre la Tesis del Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia de la SCJN respecto a la Alienación Parental (ResearchGate) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandro-Amaro-4/publication/357097190 ; Declaration of the Global Movement for Scientific Integrity in Parental Alienation (co-author with William Bernet) — GARI-PA founding document; CEAP Argentina founding speaker (1er Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinario, CABA, 14-15 Nov 2024) https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/quienes-somos/ ; YouTube Investiga FRAUDE CIENTÍFICO relacionado a estudios ALIENACIÓN PARENTAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNL6SlNANRs ; Carta al editor re SAP: Concepto en Desuso (Acta Pediátrica de México) https://actapediatrica.org.mx/article/carta-al-editor-con-relacion-al-articulo-sindrome-de-alienacion-parental-un-concepto-que-actualmente-debe-ser-considerado-en-desuso/
  • Programs / publications:
  • Amicus Curiae sobre la Tesis del Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia de la SCJN respecto a la Alienación Parental (2021)
  • GARI-PA — President of Hispanic Chapter (with W. Bernet, US)
  • PASG core member; CEAP Argentina committee
  • Carta al Editor, Acta Pediátrica de México on the "concepto en desuso" framing
  • Multiple Hospital Torres Orozco research outputs on PA + suicidology overlap
  • Primary contact: dr_mendoza@outlook.com ; +52 144 3273 0494 ; Xengua 106, Col. Bosque Camelinas, C.P. 58290, Morelia/Michoacán
  • Tier: 1
  • Hook: The single most institutionally connected Mexican PA-recognition clinician — PASG + GARI-PA + CEAP + AMPFS + a public-sector psychiatric hospital chieftaincy. Any Hispanophone PASG conversation routes through him. Cross-listed in /influencers/ candidate set.

2. INSTITUTIONAL — Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) / Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia

Mexico — entries considered and excluded

  • Dra Asunción Lara (UNAM / INPRFM) — confirmed UNAM postgrado psicología faculty https://psicologia.posgrado.unam.mx/maria-asuncion-lara-cantu/ , Departamento de Estudios Psicosociales en Poblaciones Específicas, INPRFM. Her research is on depresión en mujeres y depresión posparto (¡Es difícil ser mujer!; Cuidados emocionales para futuras mamás). No primary source confirms PA-specific clinical or publication work; excluded as category mismatch (perinatal-mental-health, not PA).
  • Diego Núñez Sánchez — no primary source retrievable confirming a Mexican psicólogo by that name working on PA peritaje. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Itzel Adriana Aguirre — no primary source retrievable. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • CENAVID — does not exist under that acronym; the correct institutions are CEAV (Comisión Ejecutiva de Atención a Víctimas) https://www.gob.mx/ceav and CONAVIM https://www.gob.mx/conavim. Neither has issued a sourced PA-specific institutional position publicly retrievable as of 2026-05-25; excluded for lack of sourced PA stance. Listed here for transparency.
  • INMUJERES psychology programmes — no specific PA-focused INMUJERES clinical programme publicly identifiable; not publicly confirmed — excluded.

Argentina

Argentina's PA-clinical terrain is the most institutionally polarised in LATAM: ASAPMI (critique) vs CEAP Argentina (recognition), with Eva Giberti as the single most senior pioneer-clinician on the critique pole.

1. Dra Eva Giberti (Psicóloga, Psicoanalista, Asistente Social)

2. Dr Pedro Herscovici (Psiquiatra, Terapeuta Familiar)

3. Dr Carlos María Díaz Usandivaras (Psiquiatra, Terapeuta Familiar Sistémico)

4. INSTITUTIONAL — Asociación Argentina de Prevención del Maltrato Infanto-Juvenil (ASAPMI)

  • Country / city: AR / CABA
  • Institution: ASAPMI — leading Argentine professional society on prevention of child maltreatment; integra psicólogos, psiquiatras, asistentes sociales y juristas
  • Practice URLs: https://asapmi.org.ar/ ; ASAPMI Pronunciamiento sobre el supuesto Síndrome de Alienación Parental http://www.asapmi.org.ar/publicaciones/notas/?id=507 ; ASAPMI Comentarios sobre el Pretendido SAP http://www.asapmi.org.ar/publicaciones/notas/?id=968 ; ASAPMI Glosario http://asapmi.org.ar/glosario/?id=358 ; ASAPMI Abuso Sexual Infantil https://asapmi.org.ar/abuso-sexual-infantil/
  • Regulatory body: Civil association (asociación civil); peer-membership professional society
  • Specialty: Prevention of maltrato infanto-juvenil; abuso sexual infantil; crítica institucional al SAP / AP como construcción acientífica utilizada para invalidar testimonios infantiles de abuso
  • Stance: critique (institutional)
  • Stance source: ASAPMI Pronunciamiento sobre el supuesto Síndrome de Alienación Parental — "el supuesto SAP no constituye una enfermedad por cuanto carece de validez científica, es una construcción que se produce esencialmente en los contextos legales" ; ASAPMI joint statement 2020 repudiating media coverage of SAP (Fantino a la tarde episode) cited in Página/12 https://www.pagina12.com.ar/273858 ; ASAPMI Análisis sobre las bases científicas del SAP http://www.asapmi.org.ar/publicaciones/articulos/articulo.asp?id=755
  • Programs / publications:
  • Pronunciamiento sobre el supuesto SAP — the canonical Argentine institutional critique statement
  • Análisis sobre las bases científicas del SAP de Gardner y los riesgos de su aplicación como "trastorno médico y psiquiátrico" en los juzgados de España
  • Glosario online (entry on AP) http://asapmi.org.ar/glosario/?id=358
  • 2020 joint media-repudiation statement
  • Primary contact: via site https://asapmi.org.ar/ contact form
  • Tier: 1
  • Hook: The single most authoritative Argentine professional-society voice on the critique side — directly cited by Defensoría del Pueblo CABA (2020) and routinely cited in Página/12 and academic critique literature.

Argentina — entries considered and excluded

  • Diana Cohen Agrest — Doctora en Filosofía UBA + Master en Bioética Monash; founder/president Usina de Justicia (civil association for families of homicide victims). No primary source confirms a PA-specific publication or clinical engagement; her work is on victims of violent crime, not PA. Excluded for category mismatch.
  • Susana Mauer — name not retrievable from primary sources as a confirmable ASAPMI clinical figure on PA. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Liliana Yacuzzi — no primary source retrievable. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Sonia Vaccaro — Argentine-born clinical/forensic psychologist resident in Madrid since 2002; coined violencia vicaria (2012); 2009 El pretendido SAP (with Consuelo Barea). Listed in /practitioners-eu-therapists.md under Spain as her principal entry; cross-referenced here as a key Spanish-language critique-camp clinician who is regularly cited in the Argentine debate.

Colombia

Colombia's PA-clinical terrain pivoted decisively to the critique pole in November 2023: COLPSIC issued its Posición Gremial (16 Nov) and the Corte Constitucional Sentencia T-526/23 (30 Nov) proscribed SAP as a judicial criterion. The clinical recognition-camp infrastructure is thin compared to Brazil / Argentina.

1. INSTITUTIONAL — Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos (COLPSIC)

2. INSTITUTIONAL — Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF)

  • Country / city: CO / Bogotá (national; territorial direcciones in all 32 departments)
  • Institution: ICBF — national family-welfare institute (creado 1968); under Departamento Administrativo para la Prosperidad Social; institucional family-court psychology and defensorías de familia network
  • Institutional URLs: https://www.icbf.gov.co/ ; El Instituto https://www.icbf.gov.co/instituto ; Puntos de Atención https://www.icbf.gov.co/instituto/puntos-atencion ; Directorio Servidores Públicos https://www.icbf.gov.co/sites/default/files/files/Directorio%20Servidores%20P%C3%BAblicos.pdf
  • Regulatory body: Federal (Departamento Administrativo para la Prosperidad Social)
  • Specialty: Defensorías de familia; psicología familiar institucional; intervención en procesos de restablecimiento de derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes; intervención técnica en procesos de custodia ante jueces de familia
  • Stance: critique-adjacent (institutional — ICBF intervention in T-526/23 stated COLPSIC does not support SAP as a diagnostic category)
  • Stance source: ICBF's institutional intervention is cited in Corte Constitucional Sentencia T-526/23 (30 Nov 2023) as the channel through which the Court learned of COLPSIC's non-support of SAP — see desclab analysis 4 claves para entender la Sentencia T-526 de 2023 https://www.desclab.com/post/alienacion ; ICBF Lineamientos Técnicos para la Atención Integral a Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes operate as the doctrinal anchor for defensorías de familia psychology
  • Programs / publications:
  • Intervention in Corte Constitucional T-526/23 (citing COLPSIC non-support of SAP)
  • Lineamientos Técnicos para Atención Integral (institutional methodology)
  • Directorio de servidores públicos (psicólogos institucionales) https://www.icbf.gov.co/sites/default/files/files/Directorio%20Servidores%20P%C3%BAblicos.pdf
  • Primary contact: AtencionAlCiudadano@icbf.gov.co ; Sede Nacional, Av. Cra 68 No 64C-75, Bogotá D.C. — https://www.icbf.gov.co/
  • Tier: 2
  • Hook: The Colombian national family-welfare institution whose psychology corps operationalises T-526/23 on the ground; the institutional contact for defensorías de familia methodology questions.

Colombia — entries considered and excluded

  • Pilar Asunción Aguirre — no primary source retrievable confirming a Colombian psicóloga by that name working on PA. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Andrés Tello Cabello — the retrievable "Andrés Tello" hits are a Chilean sociologist (Data Justa) and a Colombian food-industry executive; no Colombian psicólogo by that name with confirmable PA work. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Individual recognition-camp Colombian psicólogos — the practice site Legalan Abogados (Medellín) and prior 2017 COLPSIC Unidad de Psicología Jurídica y Forense report exist as evidence of a prior pro-recognition camp, but post-T-526/23 the institutional space has collapsed and no individual recognition-camp Colombian psicólogo with confirmable practice site + sourced stance + named publication is publicly retrievable as of 2026-05-25. Honest finding: Colombia's recognition-camp clinical infrastructure is institutionally orphaned after T-526.

Chile

Chile has no institutional doctrinal anchor on PA — alienación parental is neither a crime nor a Chilean clinical diagnosis (per SENAME / mejor niñez). The principal clinical voices are individual academics at UCN / UTA / IChTF. The recognition camp is concentrated in Pinto-Cortez (UTA) + Portilla-Saavedra & Moya-Vergara (UCN) via a single 2023 peer-reviewed paper; the middle-camp anchor is Claudia Cáceres (IChTF).

1. Dr Cristián Pinto-Cortez, PhD

  • Country / city: CL / Arica (Región de Arica y Parinacota)
  • Practice / affiliation: Professor / investigator, Escuela de Psicología y Filosofía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas, Universidad de Tarapacá (UTA), Arica
  • Practice URLs: UTA Escuela de Psicología (institutional) ; published paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10528598/
  • Regulatory body: Psicólogo — Universidad de Tarapacá institutional credentialing; Colegio de Psicólogos de Chile membership not publicly displayed (colegiación voluntaria post-1981)
  • Registration number: not publicly displayed
  • Specialty: Psicología clínica e infantil; victimización infantil; parental alienating behaviors as a specific form of psychological/emotional child maltreatment; psychometric assessment of PAB exposure
  • Stance: recognition (academic — frames PAB as child maltreatment producing measurable adult mental health sequelae)
  • Stance source: Portilla-Saavedra, Pinto-Cortez & Moya-Vergara (2023) Psychological Distress in Young Chilean Adults Exposed to Parental Alienating Behaviors during Childhood/Adolescence, European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education — PMC https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10528598/ ; cited as canonical Chilean empirical paper on PAB → mental-health outcomes
  • Programs / publications:
  • Portilla-Saavedra, Pinto-Cortez & Moya-Vergara (2023) — the canonical Chilean peer-reviewed empirical paper on PAB
  • UTA Escuela de Psicología y Filosofía research program on victimización infantil
  • Primary contact: cpinto@academicos.uta.cl ; UTA Arica institutional channel
  • Tier: 2
  • Hook: The single most-cited Chilean academic on PAB → adult mental-health outcomes. The natural Chilean academic contact for the recognition-camp empirical-evidence frame.

2. Dr Diego Portilla-Saavedra & Dr Rodrigo Moya-Vergara

  • Country / city: CL / Antofagasta (Región de Antofagasta)
  • Practice / affiliation: Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), Antofagasta (Portilla-Saavedra was primary/corresponding author at UCN; Moya-Vergara is UCN faculty)
  • Practice URLs: UCN Escuela de Psicología (institutional); paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10528598/
  • Regulatory body: Psicólogos — UCN institutional credentialing; Colegio de Psicólogos membership not publicly displayed
  • Registration number: not publicly displayed
  • Specialty: Psicología clínica; metodología cuantitativa; psicometría aplicada a la exposición a comportamientos alienantes parentales (PAB); resultados de salud mental en adultos jóvenes
  • Stance: recognition (academic — same framing as Pinto-Cortez)
  • Stance source: Portilla-Saavedra, Pinto-Cortez & Moya-Vergara (2023) (above)
  • Programs / publications:
  • Portilla-Saavedra et al. (2023) — corresponding-author paper
  • UCN Escuela de Psicología research outputs
  • Primary contact: dps005@alumnos.ucn.cl (Portilla-Saavedra) ; +56-984010714 ; rmoya@ucn.cl (Moya-Vergara) ; UCN Antofagasta institutional channel
  • Tier: 3
  • Hook: UCN pairing with Pinto-Cortez (UTA) on the canonical Chilean PAB paper; useful as second-tier academic outreach for the Chilean empirical-recognition frame.

3. Claudia Cáceres (Terapeuta Familiar)

  • Country / city: CL / Santiago (Región Metropolitana)
  • Practice / affiliation: Coordinadora del Equipo de Terapia Familiar, Instituto Chileno de Terapia Familiar (IChTF); 25+ años de trabajo clínico en equipo de terapia familiar especializado en procesos de separación
  • Practice URLs: IChTF Academia.edu profile https://terapiafamiliar.academia.edu/ClaudiaC%C3%A1ceres ; IChTF institutional https://www.linkedin.com/company/instituto-chileno-de-terapia-familiar ; IChTF blog http://ichtf.blogspot.com/ ; IChTF YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ICTerapiaFamiliar
  • Regulatory body: Psicóloga / Terapeuta Familiar — IChTF institutional credentialing (Modelo Sistémico-Contextual-Relacional); Colegio de Psicólogos number not publicly displayed
  • Registration number: not publicly displayed
  • Specialty: Terapia familiar sistémica; intervención en procesos de separación de alto conflicto; dilema clínico entre abuso sexual intrafamiliar y alienación parental; trauma relacional infantil
  • Stance: middle (systemic; explicitly cautions against the victim-perpetrator binary of Gardnerian SAP while engaging the underlying clinical dynamics)
  • Stance source: Cáceres in El síndrome de alienación parental: una realidad latente (Emol, 11 Mar 2011) — "es un concepto antiguo que en su idea original tenía una lógica que es bastante dañina en cuanto pone a un progenitor como víctima y al otro como perpetrador" and "es una situación extrema que ocurre con poca frecuencia" https://www.emol.com/noticias/Tendencias/2011/03/11/734921/El-sindrome-de-alienacion-parental-una-realidad-latente.html ; IChTF blog discussion of the abuso sexual intrafamiliar / AP dilemma http://ichtf.blogspot.com/2016/ ; IChTF institutional Modelo Sistémico-Contextual-Relacional positioning
  • Programs / publications:
  • 25 years of family-therapy team practice at IChTF, Santiago
  • IChTF curriculum on the abuso intrafamiliar / AP differential
  • IChTF YouTube content on family therapy in separation processes
  • Primary contact: IChTF, Santiago de Chile — via https://www.linkedin.com/company/instituto-chileno-de-terapia-familiar institutional channel
  • Tier: 2
  • Hook: The single Chilean middle-camp family-therapy institutional voice — the natural Chilean clinical voice when the article needs neither full PASG-recognition nor full SAP-abolitionist framing.

Chile — entries considered and excluded

  • Soledad Espinoza — no primary source retrievable confirming a Chilean clinical psychologist by that name working on PA. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Vania Apablaza — no primary source retrievable. Not publicly confirmed — excluded.
  • Corporación Humanas — Santiago feminist legal NGO; no PA-specific institutional position publicly retrievable as of 2026-05-25; excluded for lack of sourced PA stance.
  • Programa SENAME / Servicio Nacional de Menores (now mejor niñez) — national child-protection service. There is no SENAME / mejor niñez institutional position on alienación parental publicly retrievable; SENAME does not address PA as a clinical category (per CIPER Chile 2013 Crisis del SENAME https://www.ciperchile.cl/2013/08/19/crisis-del-sename-un-sistema-que-hiere-cuando-intenta-cuidar/ and SENAME Enfoque document https://www.sename.cl/wsename/otros/2012/enfoque.pdf). Excluded for lack of PA-specific institutional doctrine. Honest finding: Chile is the LATAM jurisdiction with the least institutional clinical engagement on PA either way.

Per-country stance distribution

Country Recognition Critique Middle Total
Brazil (BR) 3 (Calçada, G. Brazil, Perissini) 4 (Arantes, Torraca de Brito, Martins de Sousa, CFP institutional) 0 7
Mexico (MX) 1 (Mendoza-Amaro) 0 1 (SCJN Protocolo institutional) 2
Argentina (AR) 2 (Herscovici, Díaz Usandivaras) 2 (Giberti, ASAPMI institutional) 0 4
Colombia (CO) 0 2 (COLPSIC institutional, ICBF institutional) 0 2
Chile (CL) 3 (Pinto-Cortez, Portilla-Saavedra, Moya-Vergara) 0 1 (Cáceres / IChTF) 4
LATAM TOTAL 9 8 2 19

Honest gaps

  • Mexico critique-camp clinician individual entry: None publicly confirmable. CONAVIM, INMUJERES and CEAV have not issued sourced PA-specific clinical positions; the critique side is represented institutionally only via the SCJN Protocolo (middle / procedural). This is a real LATAM gap — Mexico has a vigorous feminist legal critique of PA-statute use but a thin individual clinician-author footprint.
  • Colombia individual recognition-camp clinician: Institutionally orphaned post-T-526/23. The pre-2023 pro-recognition position of COLPSIC's Unidad de Psicología Jurídica y Forense (2017) was institutionally retracted Nov 2023; no individual Colombian psicólogo with a current public-facing PA-recognition practice site + sourced stance is retrievable.
  • Chile institutional doctrine on PA: Does not exist. SENAME / mejor niñez does not address PA; Colegio de Psicólogos has issued no equivalent of COLPSIC's Posición Gremial. Chile is the LATAM jurisdiction with the least institutional clinical engagement on PA in either direction.
  • CRP / colegio numbers: Only Calçada (CRP 05/18785) and her collaborating team have publicly displayed Brazilian CRP numbers. Argentine psiquiatra colegio numbers and Mexican cédulas profesionales are generally not publicly displayed on practitioner sites; verification requires direct lookup via the relevant national register before formal outreach.
  • Specific PA-publication confirmation for senior names: Eva Giberti's PA-specific publications are dispersed across Página/12 columns and book chapters rather than peer-reviewed clinical literature; her stance is sourced via institutional role (Programa Las Víctimas) and named-press alignment, not a single peer-reviewed PA paper.

Entries excluded with disclosure (consolidated)

  1. Maria Berenice Dias (BR) — jurist, not therapist; in /practitioners-latam-lawyers.md.
  2. Priscila Faria de Freitas (BR) — name not retrievable as a confirmable psicóloga on PA; brief likely conflated with Priscila Maria Pereira Corrêa da Fonseca (USP law).
  3. Ana Paula da Costa (BR) — brief name ambiguous; multiple unrelated "Ana Paula" psicólogas; not publicly confirmed.
  4. Asunción Lara (MX) — UNAM/INPRFM; perinatal mental health and women's depression, not PA; category mismatch.
  5. Diego Núñez Sánchez (MX) — name not retrievable; not publicly confirmed.
  6. Itzel Adriana Aguirre (MX) — name not retrievable; not publicly confirmed.
  7. CENAVID (MX) — not a Mexican institutional acronym (likely intended CEAV/CONAVIM); no PA-specific institutional position publicly retrievable from CEAV or CONAVIM.
  8. INMUJERES psychology programmes (MX) — no PA-specific clinical programme publicly identifiable.
  9. Diana Cohen Agrest (AR) — philosopher / homicide-victim advocate (Usina de Justicia); no PA-specific publication; category mismatch.
  10. Susana Mauer (AR) — name not retrievable as a confirmable ASAPMI clinical figure on PA; not publicly confirmed.
  11. Liliana Yacuzzi (AR) — name not retrievable; not publicly confirmed.
  12. Pilar Asunción Aguirre (CO) — name not retrievable; not publicly confirmed.
  13. Andrés Tello Cabello (CO) — retrievable hits are a Chilean sociologist and an unrelated Colombian executive; no Colombian psicólogo on PA confirmable.
  14. Soledad Espinoza (CL) — name not retrievable as a confirmable Chilean clinical psychologist on PA; not publicly confirmed.
  15. Vania Apablaza (CL) — name not retrievable; not publicly confirmed.
  16. Corporación Humanas (CL) — no PA-specific institutional position publicly retrievable.
  17. Programa SENAME / mejor niñez (CL) — no PA-specific institutional doctrine; Chile has no institutional clinical engagement on PA.

Sources & authoritative references

Topic baseline (independently verifiable):