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 (c) 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):

Brazil (BR): Psychologists are registered with one of 24 Conselhos Regionais de Psicologia (CRP) (e.g. CRP-RJ 05, CRP-SP 06) under the Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP), https://site.cfp.org.br/. The 2022 CFP Nota Técnica nº 4/2022/GTEC/CG (https://site.cfp.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SEI_CFP-0698871-Nota-Tecnica.pdf) is the institutional doctrinal anchor: it instructs psicólogos not to ground analyses on Lei 12.318/2010 as a clinical construct, and recognises PA allegations as predominantly affecting guardian mothers with a gender bias. IBDFAM and a substantial recognition-camp clinical literature (Calçada, Brazil, Perissini) push back. Lei 12.318/2010 + Lei 14.340/2022 remain in force; CCJ approved PL 1.372/2023 (full revocation) 37-28 on 3 Dec 2025.
Mexico (MX): Psicólogos hold a cédula profesional issued by the Dirección General de Profesiones / SEP (https://www.cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx/); there is no single binding national colegio of psychologists. State civil codes diverge on alienación parental — CDMX (Civil Code reform 2022), Estado de México and others incorporate it; SCJN Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 (Oaxaca) struck down the criminal/loss-of-custody automaticity. The 2021 SCJN Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia (https://www.scjn.gob.mx/derechos-humanos/sites/default/files/protocolos/archivos/2021-11/Protocolo%20para%20juzgar%20con%20perspectiva%20de%20IA%2010nov21.pdf) is the doctrinal anchor.
Argentina (AR): Psicólogos register with provincial colegios (e.g. Colegio de Psicólogos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires https://www.colpsiba.org.ar/, CPCBA for CABA https://www.psicologos.org.ar/); psiquiatras with the APSA / Asociación Argentina de Psiquiatras and provincial colegios médicos. Ley 24.270 criminalises obstruction of contact (1993) but does not codify SAP. ASAPMI (https://asapmi.org.ar/) is the leading professional society publishing the critique-camp position; CEAP Argentina (https://alienacionparental.com.ar/) is the recognition-camp institutional pole.
Colombia (CO): Psicólogos register with COLPSIC – Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos (https://www.colpsic.org.co/) and obtain the tarjeta profesional. The institutional doctrine pivoted in November 2023: COLPSIC issued Posición Gremial sobre Alienación Parental (16 Nov 2023 — https://www.colpsic.org.co/comunicados/posicion-del-colegio-colombiano-de-psicologos-colpsic-frente-al-concepto-de-alienacion-parental/), and on 30 Nov 2023 the Corte Constitucional Sentencia T-526/23 (https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2023/t-526-23.htm) proscribed SAP as a criterion for judicial analysis of children's testimony. The ICBF – Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (https://www.icbf.gov.co/) is the institutional family-court psychology body referenced in T-526.
Chile (CL): Psicólogos register with the Colegio de Psicólogos de Chile (https://www.colegiopsicologos.cl/) — collegiate membership is voluntary post-1981. SENAME / mejor niñez (https://www.mejorninez.cl/) is the national child-protection service. There is no entity in Chile that institutionally addresses alienación parental and it is neither a crime nor a clinical diagnosis in the Chilean health system; the principal clinical voices are individual academics (Pinto-Cortez at UTA; Portilla-Saavedra and Moya-Vergara at UCN) and the Instituto Chileno de Terapia Familiar (IChTF) for the middle / family-systems camp.

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¶

Country / city: BR / Rio de Janeiro (Barra da Tijuca + Tijuca clinics)
Practice / affiliation: Clínica Expansão — Psicologia Clínica e Jurídica; perita do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (TJRJ) em Varas de Família; membro IBDFAM
Practice URLs: https://andreiacalcada.com.br/ ; http://clinicaexpansao.com.br/ ; Migalhas author page https://www.migalhas.com.br/autor/andreia-soares-calcada
Regulatory body: CRP-05 (Rio de Janeiro) — Psicóloga, with declared CRP 05/18785 (per A Psicodinâmica da Alienação Parental author byline mirrored at https://escuelamunduna.edu.ar/sites/default/files/A%20Psicodin%C3%A2mica%20da%20Aliena%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20Parental%20%20Andreia%20Cal%C3%A7ada_0.pdf)
Registration number: CRP 05/18785 (as displayed on her published work)
Specialty: Psicologia clínica e jurídica; perícia psicológica forense em Varas de Família; alienação parental; falsas alegações de abuso sexual em disputas de guarda; psicodiagnóstico; neuropsicologia
Stance: recognition
Stance source: Calçada (2008/reeds.) Perdas Irreparáveis: Alienação Parental e Falsas Acusações de Abuso Sexual (Equilíbrio) — 20+ years of expert-witness practice synthesised; A Psicodinâmica da Alienação Parental (PDF above); Calçada et al., Perícia psicológica forense em processos que envolvem acusações de alienação parental (Revista Científica do IBDFAM, ed. 45) — IBDFAM coverage https://ibdfam.org.br/noticias/9049/Per%C3%ADcia+psicol%C3%B3gica+forense+em+processos+de+aliena%C3%A7%C3%A3o+parental+%C3%A9+enfoque+de+artigo+na+Revista+Cient%C3%ADfica+do+IBDFAM ; member of the Comissão Científica of Revista Alienação Parental https://revistaalienacaoparental.webnode.pt/comissao-cientifica/
Programs / publications:
Perdas Irreparáveis: Alienação Parental e Falsas Acusações de Abuso Sexual (Equilíbrio Editora) — standard Brazilian recognition-camp clinical reference
A Psicodinâmica da Alienação Parental (monograph)
Co-author of the IBDFAM Revista Científica article on perícia psicológica forense em processos de alienação parental (ed. 45)
Recurring Migalhas columnist (https://www.migalhas.com.br/autor/andreia-soares-calcada)
Primary contact: Clínica Barra: Av. das Américas 2901, sala 404, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro/RJ; Clínica Tijuca: Av. Maracanã 987, sala 1102, Shopping Tijuca; WhatsApp +55 (21) 99797-6311; via site contact https://andreiacalcada.com.br/contato
Tier: 1
Hook: The longest-published Brazilian recognition-camp clinical psychologist on PA + false-allegation overlap; the natural counterpart to Glicia Brazil within IBDFAM clinical circles.
Notes: Team CRP numbers (collaborating psicólogas Coutinho Kuczny CRP 08/33462, Amin CRP 05/68002, Cardoso CRP 05/54838) are publicly displayed on her practice site — useful as registry verification.

2. Glicia Barbosa de Mattos Brazil¶

Country / city: BR / Rio de Janeiro
Practice / affiliation: Psicóloga do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (TJRJ) com 27+ anos de atuação; Coordenadora do Curso de Extensão em Alienação Parental, PUC-Rio; Vice-Presidente da Comissão da Infância e Juventude do IBDFAM; Tutora da ENFAM (Escola Nacional de Formação e Aperfeiçoamento de Magistrados); Professora da FMP-RS
Practice URLs: https://gliciabrazil.com.br/ ; FMP-RS bio https://www.fmp.edu.br/corpo-docente/glicia-brazil/ ; JusPodivm author https://www.editorajuspodivm.com.br/authors/page/view/id/4760/ ; YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@gliciabrazil5875
Regulatory body: CRP-05 (Rio de Janeiro) — Psicóloga; also Bacharel em Direito; institutional registration as TJRJ servant
Registration number: not publicly displayed on personal site
Specialty: Psicologia jurídica; perícia psicológica forense em Varas de Família; alienação parental; neurociência da memória aplicada à perícia; depoimento especial; assistência técnica em processos de alienação parental
Stance: recognition
Stance source: Brazil, A Alienação Parental sob a Ótica da Neurociência (IBDFAM PDF) https://ibdfam.org.br/assets/img/upload/files/Artigo%20IBDFAM%20glicia.pdf ; Intercept profile "Glicia Brazil: a psicóloga que ajuda na defesa de acusados de abuso" https://www.intercept.com.br/2023/05/18/abuso-glicia-brazil-psicologa-fortalece-defesa-de-acusados/ ; GEN webinar Alienação Parental: Detecção, Aspectos Legais e Processuais https://blog.grupogen.com.br/juridico/areas-de-interesse/civil/live-alienacao-parental/ ; IBDFAM coverage of Mês de Combate à Alienação Parental https://ibdfam.org.br/noticias/10711
Programs / publications:
Three books on what happens to the child within the Justice system (published JusPodivm) — for parents, lawyers and professionals
A Alienação Parental sob a Ótica da Neurociência (IBDFAM article)
Coordinator, PUC-Rio extension course on alienação parental
SciELO co-author on Perícias Psicológicas em Processos Judiciais Envolvendo Suspeita de Alienação Parental https://www.scielo.br/j/pcp/a/yN8FTYKPbLNQsR5WDp9b3jq
Primary contact: via site contact form https://gliciabrazil.com.br/ ; TJRJ institutional address (TJRJ Servidor channel); FMP-RS institutional channel https://www.fmp.edu.br/corpo-docente/glicia-brazil/
Tier: 1
Hook: The single most-credentialled Brazilian recognition-camp court-employed psicóloga — TJRJ + PUC-Rio + IBDFAM Vice-Presidência da Infância + ENFAM tutoria. The natural recognition-camp clinical authority figure cited by IBDFAM against PL 1.372/2023 revocation.
Notes: Intercept (May 2023) ran a critical investigation framing her as "the psychologist who helps the defence of accused [abusers]" — high media-sensitivity entry. Use as a flashpoint figure; she is currently the principal target of feminist coalition critique in the BR PA clinical debate.

3. Dra Denise Maria Perissini da Silva¶

Country / city: BR / São Paulo
Practice / affiliation: Owner, Perissini Psicologia Clínica e Forense, Cursos e Treinamentos; intérprete judicial de Libras pelo TJSP; Mestre em Ciências Humanas Interdisciplinares (UNISA / Universidade de Santo Amaro); especialista em Psicologia Forense
Practice URLs: Migalhas author page https://www.migalhas.com.br/autor/denise-maria-perissini-da-silva ; Jusbrasil https://dmperissini.jusbrasil.com.br/ ; Escavador https://www.escavador.com/sobre/478524/denise-maria-perissini-da-silva
Regulatory body: CRP-06 (São Paulo) — Psicóloga
Registration number: not publicly displayed
Specialty: Psicologia jurídica; Varas de Família; depoimento especial (Resolução CFP 11/2018); avaliação psicológica em processos de guarda; alienação parental; Lei 12.318/2010 + Lei 14.340/2022
Stance: recognition
Stance source: Perissini da Silva, Psicologia Jurídica e os Litígios em Varas de Família (Juruá, 6ª ed. atualizada com Lei 14.340/2022) — publisher page https://www.jurua.com.br/shop_item.asp?id=30631 ; Psicologia Jurídica no Processo Civil Brasileiro: a interface da psicologia com o direito nas questões de família e infância (Casa do Psicólogo / Forense, 2ª ed. 2012, 449pp) https://www.lexml.gov.br/urn/urn:lex:br:rede.virtual.bibliotecas:livro:2019;001162293 ; Guarda Compartilhada e Síndrome de Alienação Parental – o que é isso? (Equilíbrio) https://books.google.com/books/about/Guarda_Compartilhada_E_Sindrome_De_Alien.html?id=WZN4RAAACAAJ ; Migalhas Perícia psicológica: importante em disputas judiciais https://www.migalhas.com.br/depeso/435714/pericia-psicologica-importante-em-disputas-judiciais
Programs / publications:
Psicologia Jurídica e os Litígios em Varas de Família (Juruá, 6ª ed.) — the most-cited Brazilian PA-aware perícia manual
Guarda Compartilhada e Síndrome de Alienação Parental – o que é isso? (Equilíbrio)
Psicologia Jurídica no Processo Civil Brasileiro (Casa do Psicólogo / Forense)
Migalhas columnist on perícia psicológica
Primary contact: São Paulo/SP — practice address not publicly displayed; via Migalhas https://www.migalhas.com.br/autor/denise-maria-perissini-da-silva or Escavador https://www.escavador.com/sobre/478524/denise-maria-perissini-da-silva
Tier: 2
Hook: São Paulo's standard PA-aware Varas de Família perícia manual author — the technical reference cited by lawyers / magistrates when the recognition-camp clinical procedural detail is needed.
Notes: Substantively recognition camp but with a procedural / training-of-perito emphasis rather than the polemical IBDFAM-press positioning of Glicia Brazil.

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¶

Country / city: BR / Rio de Janeiro
Practice / affiliation: Professora Titular aposentada do Instituto de Psicologia da UERJ; ex-coordenadora do Curso de Especialização em Psicologia Jurídica UERJ; pesquisadora em psicologia jurídica e direitos da infância
Practice URLs: Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pyf8_N0AAAAJ&hl=pt-BR ; Escavador https://www.escavador.com/sobre/7720071/leila-maria-torraca-de-brito ; ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Leila-Maria-Torraca-de-Brito-2048493816
Regulatory body: CRP-05 (Rio de Janeiro) — Psicóloga (Universidade Santa Úrsula 1978; PhD Psicologia Clínica PUC-Rio 1999; pós-doc UFPR 2007 + PUC-MG 2012)
Registration number: not publicly displayed
Specialty: Psicologia jurídica; guarda de filhos; escuta de crianças no sistema de justiça; adolescentes em conflito com a lei; crítica acadêmica à transposição da SAP de Gardner para a Lei 12.318/2010
Stance: critique
Stance source: Sousa & Torraca de Brito (2010+), Síndrome de Alienação Parental: da teoria norte-americana à nova lei brasileira (Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão / SciELO) http://www.scielo.br/j/pcp/a/H7w9kPHrY86XM9DXZLKvJtF/?lang=pt ; Anotações sobre a Psicologia Jurídica (SciELO) https://www.scielo.br/j/pcp/a/654BBJ4bMsrqKPsDCQShJZC/?lang=pt ; A escuta de crianças no sistema de Justiça no Brasil (DESidades/UFRJ) https://desidades.ufrj.br/open_space/a-escuta-de-criancas-no-sistema-de-justica-no-brasil-acoes-e-indagacoes/ ; Temas de Psicologia Jurídica (Relume-Dumará, 2002) https://www.amazon.com.br/Temas-de-psicologia-juridica/dp/8573161795
Programs / publications:
Sousa & Torraca (2010) Síndrome de Alienação Parental: da teoria norte-americana à nova lei brasileira — the standard Brazilian critique-camp peer-reviewed paper on Lei 12.318/2010
Se-pa-ran-do: um estudo sobre a atuação do psicólogo nas Varas de Família (Relume-Dumará / UERJ, 1993)
Temas de Psicologia Jurídica (2002, 2ª ed.)
1,700+ Google Scholar citations on psicologia jurídica + escuta de crianças
Primary contact: UERJ Instituto de Psicologia (retired faculty channel); via Escavador / Google Scholar messaging
Tier: 1
Hook: The single most-cited Brazilian psicóloga jurídica academic on the critique side of Lei 12.318/2010; her 2010 SciELO paper is the canonical Portuguese-language scholarly source on why Gardner does not transplant to Brazil. The natural critique-camp counterpart to Calçada / Glicia Brazil.

6. Dra Analicia Martins de Sousa, PhD¶

Country / city: BR / Rio de Janeiro
Practice / affiliation: Psicóloga; Doutora em Psicologia Social pela UERJ (orientada por Torraca de Brito); pesquisadora em psicologia jurídica e crítica à Lei de Alienação Parental
Practice URLs: Personal site https://analiciamartins.com.br/ ; SciELO co-authorship https://www.scielo.br/j/pcp/a/H7w9kPHrY86XM9DXZLKvJtF/?lang=pt
Regulatory body: CRP-05 (Rio de Janeiro) — Psicóloga
Registration number: not publicly displayed
Specialty: Psicologia social; psicologia jurídica; novos dispositivos de controle social — alienação parental, bullying, assédio moral
Stance: critique
Stance source: Sousa, Síndrome da Alienação Parental: um novo tema nos juízos de família (Cortez, 2010, ISBN 9788524916250) — Amazon https://www.amazon.com.br/S%C3%ADndrome-aliena%C3%A7%C3%A3o-parental-ju%C3%ADzos-fam%C3%ADlia/dp/8524916257 ; LexML record https://www.lexml.gov.br/urn/urn:lex:br:rede.virtual.bibliotecas:livro:2010;000890710 ; Sousa & Torraca de Brito (2010) SciELO paper (above); cited in TJCE coverage Uma teoria de escasso valor científico virou lei no Brasil https://www.tjce.jus.br/noticias/uma-teoria-de-escasso-valor-cientifico-virou-lei-no-brasil/
Programs / publications:
Síndrome da Alienação Parental: um novo tema nos juízos de família (Cortez, 2010) — the first Brazilian book-length critique
Sousa & Torraca de Brito (2010) SciELO peer-reviewed paper
Doctoral thesis (UERJ, Psicologia Social) on the social control function of the PA construct
Primary contact: via site https://analiciamartins.com.br/ ; UERJ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social institutional channel
Tier: 2
Hook: The Brazilian critique-camp clinical-academic author whose 2010 Cortez monograph remains the most circulated Portuguese-language critical book on Lei 12.318/2010.

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 5/6, 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¶

Country / city: MX / Ciudad de México (federal)
Institution: SCJN — Dirección General de Derechos Humanos y Justicia Pluricultural; institutional doctrine for jueces y peritos on alienación parental
Institutional URLs: Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia (Nov 2021) https://www.scjn.gob.mx/derechos-humanos/sites/default/files/protocolos/archivos/2021-11/Protocolo%20para%20juzgar%20con%20perspectiva%20de%20IA%2010nov21.pdf ; Buscador Jurídico SCJN https://bj.scjn.gob.mx/busqueda?q=ALIENACION+PARENTAL ; CDHCM Amicus Amparo Directo 14/2020 https://cdhcm.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Amicus-Curiae-Amparo-Directo-14-2020-SCJN.pdf
Regulatory body: Federal judicial authority (Pleno y Salas SCJN)
Specialty: Federal doctrinal anchor for peritos psicólogos/psiquiatras working in Mexican family courts on PA-allegation cases; Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 (Oaxaca) struck down automatic loss-of-custody / criminal-sanction articles in Oaxaca's PA statute
Stance: middle (procedural — best-interest-of-the-child + gender-equity transversal, not endorsement)
Stance source: SCJN Protocolo (2021) — section explicitly cautioning against PA as default lens and requiring perspective of childhood + gender; Tesis 2015415 https://sjf2.scjn.gob.mx/detalle/tesis/2015415 ; DOF publication of Pleno SCJN ruling 18 Mar 2021 https://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5613870&fecha=18/03/2021 ; CDHCM Amicus (Amparo Directo 14/2020); CELIG / Congreso CDMX Información Técnica sobre Alienación Parental (29 May 2024) https://genero.congresocdmx.gob.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CELIG-Inform-Te%CC%81c-Alienacio%CC%81n-Parental-29-05-24.pdf
Programs / publications:
Protocolo para Juzgar con Perspectiva de Infancia y Adolescencia (Nov 2021) — Mexican institutional anchor
Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016 (Oaxaca, ruled 2017) — see /case-studies/
Tesis SCJN 2015415 on alienación parental
Primary contact: Dirección General de Derechos Humanos y Justicia Pluricultural, SCJN, Av. Pino Suárez 2, Centro Histórico, CDMX 06065 — via SCJN institutional channels https://www.scjn.gob.mx/
Tier: 1
Hook: The Mexican institutional doctrinal anchor cited by both camps: recognition uses it to argue PA can be assessed with perspective of childhood; critique uses it to argue against automatic custody transfers. Cite alongside SCJN Acción de Inconstitucionalidad 11/2016.

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.

Country / city: AR / Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA)
Practice / affiliation: Coordinadora del Programa Nacional "Las Víctimas contra las Violencias" (Ministerio de Justicia y DDHH) — desde 2006; psicoanalista en práctica privada; profesora universitaria; pionera argentina del estudio interdisciplinario de violencia familiar e infancia
Practice URLs: https://evagiberti.com/ ; Programa Las Víctimas https://evagiberti.com/programa-las-victimas-contra-las-violencias/ ; Argentina.gob.ar https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/la-subsecretaria-de-acceso-la-justicia-se-reunio-con-eva-giberti-coordinadora-del-programa ; AAIHMEG https://aaihmeg.org/eva-giberti/
Regulatory body: Psicóloga / Psicoanalista — colegio profesional no se exhibe número público; trayectoria UBA + Facultad de Psicología; columnista habitual en Página/12
Registration number: not publicly displayed
Specialty: Violencia familiar; abuso sexual infantil; victimología; psicoanálisis; crítica desde posición protectora a la operacionalización del SAP/AP contra madres protectoras y víctimas de violencia
Stance: critique
Stance source: Giberti columnas y entrevistas en Página/12 sobre violencia familiar y SAP (autora habitual); Programa Las Víctimas contra las Violencias institutional position (Línea 137) frames PA-allegations within the DV-protection regime; CONADU entrevista "Mejoramos la conciencia sobre la violencia..." https://conadu.org.ar/eva-giberti-mejoramos-la-conciencia-sobre-la-violencia-pero-al-mismo-tiempo-aumentaron-las-muertes-de-mujeres-y-cada-vez-con-mayor-crueldad/ ; cited in Página/12 Alerta oficial y desestimación del SAP https://www.pagina12.com.ar/273858-alerta-oficial-y-desestimacion-del-sindrome-de-alienacion-pa ; ASAPMI alignment (long-standing)
Programs / publications:
Coordinadora Programa Nacional "Las Víctimas contra las Violencias" (Ministerio de Justicia y DDHH, desde 2006) — Línea 137
Decenas de libros sobre psicoanálisis, infancia, género y violencia familiar (Editorial Sudamericana / Paidós)
Pionera argentina del campo "Estudios sobre Violencia hacia Mujeres y Niños/as"
Columnista habitual Página/12 sobre AP / SAP / violencia
Primary contact: Programa Las Víctimas contra las Violencias / Línea 137 — Ministerio de Justicia y DDHH, CABA — institutional channel; sitio https://evagiberti.com/
Tier: 1
Hook: The single most senior Argentine clinical-academic voice in the critique camp — career-long author and the coordinator of Argentina's national victim-services line. Any feminist coalition or ASAPMI press position on the SAP debate routes through or cites her.

2. Dr Pedro Herscovici (Psiquiatra, Terapeuta Familiar)¶

Country / city: AR / Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA)
Practice / affiliation: Psiquiatra (especialidad psiquiatría infantil + forense); ex-Director del Centro de Salud Mental Nº 2, Buenos Aires; Co-Director del Instituto Terapias Sistémicas (TESIS); Miembro fundador del Centro de Estudios en Alienación Parental (CEAP Argentina); Approved Supervisor & Clinical Member American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT); supervisor de la Asociación Sistémica de Buenos Aires (ASIBA)
Practice URLs: CEAP Argentina https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/quienes-somos/ ; CEAP 1er Congreso https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/1er-congreso-internacional-interdisciplinario-sobre-alienacion-parental-y-violencia-familiar/
Regulatory body: Psiquiatría — formado en Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; matrícula nacional / colegio médico CABA no publicly displayed on CEAP site
Registration number: not publicly displayed
Specialty: Psiquiatría infantil y forense; terapia familiar sistémica; alienación parental como dinámica relacional disfuncional; supervisión clínica en separaciones de alto conflicto
Stance: recognition
Stance source: Prólogo a Mizrahi, Díaz Usandivaras & Herscovici, Alienación Parental: Niños huérfanos de padres vivos (Editorial — 2021) https://www.amazon.com/Alienaci%C3%B3n-Parental-hu%C3%A9rfanos-padres-Spanish/dp/B0GXVDNGBS ; CEAP institutional position (founding member) https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/quienes-somos/ ; CEAP 1er Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinario (CABA, 14-15 Nov 2024) participación https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/1er-congreso-internacional-interdisciplinario-sobre-alienacion-parental-y-violencia-familiar/
Programs / publications:
Co-autor (con Mizrahi y Díaz Usandivaras), Alienación Parental: Niños huérfanos de padres vivos
Co-Director Instituto Terapias Sistémicas (TESIS), CABA
Member, CEAP Argentina founding committee
Comité editorial de varias revistas nacionales e internacionales de terapia familiar
Primary contact: pedroh1905@gmail.com ; CEAP secretariat info@alienacionparental.com.ar (J. B. Alberdi 431, 6º 2, Olivos, Buenos Aires)
Tier: 1
Hook: The single Argentine psiquiatra clinical voice paired with Mizrahi (jurist) and Díaz Usandivaras (psiquiatra) in the recognition-camp publishing axis. The CEAP technical authority on PA-as-relational-disfunction framing.

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

Country / city: AR / San Isidro, Provincia de Buenos Aires (Acassuso 907)
Practice / affiliation: Fundador y Director, Instituto de la Familia Carlos María Díaz Usandivaras (Acassuso 907, San Isidro); Master en Matrimonio y Familia, Universidad de Navarra; profesor (ex) en Universidad Católica de La Plata, Universidad de Belgrano, UBA, Universidad Católica de Montevideo; Miembro CEAP Argentina
Practice URLs: CEAP https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/quienes-somos/ ; Instituto de la Familia listing https://www.argentino.com.ar/instituto-de-la-familia-carlos-maria-diaz-usandivaras-F140FC10219D5 ; LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-mar%C3%ADa-d%C3%ADaz-usandivaras-27242644/
Regulatory body: Psiquiatría / Terapia Familiar Sistémica — matrícula colegio médico no publicly displayed
Registration number: not publicly displayed
Specialty: Terapia familiar sistémica; alienación parental como abuso intra-familiar por violencia y maltrato infantil; intervención clínica en separaciones de alto conflicto
Stance: recognition
Stance source: Co-autor (con Mizrahi y Herscovici), Alienación Parental: Niños huérfanos de padres vivos (above); CEAP presentation "Alienación Parental como Abuso Parento-Filial por Violencia y Maltrato Infantil" (1er Congreso Internacional CEAP, CABA Nov 2024); presentation "Terminología y Denominación de los Fenómenos de Alienación Parental" (seminario preparatorio CEAP) https://alienacionparental.com.ar/en/seminario-preparatorio-del-1er-congreso-internacional-interdisciplinario-sobre-alienacion-parental-y-violencia-familiar/ ; La Nación coverage "Previene hechos de violencia al tratar a la familia en disolución" https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/previene-hechos-de-violencia-al-tratar-a-la-familia-en-disolucion-nid452785/
Programs / publications:
Fundador del Instituto de la Familia (San Isidro) — long-running family-therapy training institute
Co-autor Alienación Parental: Niños huérfanos de padres vivos (Mizrahi / Díaz Usandivaras / Herscovici)
Recurring CEAP speaker; La Nación expert source on family-disolution violence prevention
Primary contact: infamilia@outlook.com ; Instituto de la Familia, Acassuso 907, San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Tier: 2
Hook: The senior San Isidro family-therapy training-institute director who frames PA in the abuso parento-filial register — useful when the recognition-camp publication chain (Mizrahi → Herscovici → Díaz Usandivaras) is being mapped.

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)¶

Country / city: CO / Bogotá (national sede; 7 capítulos regionales)
Institution: COLPSIC – Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos, public-function professional regulator of Colombian psychologists (administra la tarjeta profesional)
Institutional URLs: https://www.colpsic.org.co/ ; Posición Gremial sobre Alienación Parental (16 Nov 2023) https://www.colpsic.org.co/comunicados/posicion-del-colegio-colombiano-de-psicologos-colpsic-frente-al-concepto-de-alienacion-parental/ ; PDF https://www.colpsic.org.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-11-16-Posicion-Gremial-sobre-Alienacion-Parental-Colpsic-2023.pdf ; Listado oficial de peritos https://www.colpsic.org.co/servicios/listado-de-peritos/ ; T-526 tag https://www.colpsic.org.co/etiqueta/t-526/
Regulatory body: Self (Ley 1090/2006 + Resolución 005-SNC-2022)
Specialty: Federal regulation of psychological practice in Colombia; PA-specific institutional doctrine for psicólogos peritos
Stance: critique (institutional — pivoted Nov 2023)
Stance source: COLPSIC Posición Gremial sobre Alienación Parental (16 Nov 2023) — formally updates COLPSIC's prior 2017 forensic-psychology unit report; rejects SAP/AP as a diagnostic category; cited and partially adopted by Corte Constitucional Sentencia T-526/23 (30 Nov 2023) https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2023/t-526-23.htm ; commentary in eticapsicologica.org https://eticapsicologica.org/index.php/documentos/noticias-y-eventos/item/92-com-sept-24 ; lpderecho.pe commentary https://lpderecho.pe/uso-sindrome-alienacion-parental-proscribirse-criterio-procesos-judiciales-sustento-cientifico-colombia-sentencia-t-526-2023/ ; LP / TRAHS https://www.unilim.fr/trahs/6278
Programs / publications:
Posición Gremial sobre Alienación Parental (16 Nov 2023) — the institutional doctrinal anchor
Listado oficial de peritos psicólogos COLPSIC (https://www.colpsic.org.co/servicios/listado-de-peritos/)
Etiqueta T-526 archive on the colpsic.org.co site
Primary contact: COLPSIC, Av. Cra 50 No 26-20, Bogotá D.C. — institutional channel https://www.colpsic.org.co/
Tier: 1
Hook: The single most authoritative Colombian institutional voice on the critique pole — its 16 Nov 2023 position was operationalised 14 days later by the Corte Constitucional in T-526/23, making Colombia the LATAM jurisdiction with the cleanest institutional-clinical-judicial alignment on the critique side.

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)¶

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