A very interesting blog post from a parental alienation practitioner in Sweden, detailing the situation in Sweden.
A very interesting point made in this post is that in a land such as Sweden, known around the world for open social reforms the situation regarding parental alienation is no better than in other countries such as the UK, USA, Germany or Austria.
via The child´s right to family life in Sweden | Avskilda barn – Secluded children
Another – this time scathing – report on the CAFCASS/Women’s Aid report disaster.
Enjoy reading!
via The Backbencher – Biased Incompetence in CAFCASS and Women’s Aid Report
Another report on the recent report published detailing research undertaken by CAFCASS and Woman’s Aid.
Please note when reading that Ms Woodhall, is as a rule gender neutral in her blog posts.
After having read this and the other reactions I have posted I may feel obliged to post something myself!
This week I have been starting the process of codifying the principles of practice in working with alienated children and their families for the development of training programmes. As part of this …
Yesterday I worked with an inspiring group of people who attended our only UK practitioner training to be held this year. Despite a couple of technical hitches, we worked through the day on the principles used by the Family Separation Clinic to unpack and analyse cases of parental alienation. Each person was focused and brought to the training their own experience of working in this field. Psychologists, psychotherapists, child protection social workers, step parent support workers and specialist mediators and psychotherapists from Holland, all together in the desire to further understand the problem and how to work with it. I ended the day inspired, invigorated and absolutely certain that the way to change the world for alienated children is to prepare and plant seeds in as many places of the world as possible and then water and nurture them and support them to flourish. Which is what I will be…
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PA is obviously gaining traction. Some people are compiling a database to enable criticism of Karen Woodhall not only as a practitioner in this field but also as a person!
It has been another busy week at the Family Separation Clinic where we continue to deliver services for families affected by parental alienation. This week I have been once again working with children affected by the problem, as well as thinking about new projects coming up which will keep us busy long into the new decade.
In the coming months our new book will be published, we will launch Parental Alienation Direct as a self help site for everyone affected by parental alienation, and we will be travelling to Prague with colleagues from 14 other EU countries, for the launch of the European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners.
On July 8th, I will be speaking at the Children’s Mental Health Centre conference ‘Too Much Pain’ where the groundbreaking film about adverse childhood experiences – Resilience – will be shown. I cannot tell you how excited I am to see this…
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Another insightful post from Karen.
via The Unbearable Experience of The Alienated Child: Lessons From The Recovery Journey | Karen Woodall
I wanted to share this blog because it is written by someone who clearly knows how alienation and cults are interwoven. When I first began work as a psychotherapist one of my first clients was escaping a cult. I was interested in how EST, the cult which became The Forum worked and how Scientology managed to influence so many when it demanded such bizarre and dramatic behaviours from people. My interest in cults lead me eventually to working with parental alienation, itself a cult of the family mindset. I like this blog and think anyone who is interested in the psychology of alienation will too.
Source: A Trapped Mind
I read this week that a transfer of residence is the ‘nuclear option’ for treatment of parental alienation in the UK . The discussion arises from a public judgement in which the child concerned was sent to live with her father. Whilst there is a significant wrangling about the decision, based on the argument that the child had been too damaged already to be helped by a change of residence, (the judge finding that a particularly unattractive argument put forward by the mother), the words at the end of the Judgement are clear, the child will go to live with her father today.
That reality, which could just as easily read, the child will go to live with her mother today, given that fathers alienate mothers too, is one which causes too many people to become uneasy when they contemplate it. Which is why I guess, it is called by…
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