We are just back from Holland where we training another group of practitioners to work with the differentiation model of the Family Separation Clinic in parental alienation cases. This brings the total of practitioners trained this year to just over seventy. During our training in Holland, which involved lawyers and mental health practitioners, we examinedContinue reading “Practicing, Protecting and Promoting. Introducing The European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners”
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Shining Lights
Our training in Holland continues and we have been deep in the forest today examining the role of personality disorder in pure cases of alienation and the particular configurations seen in cases which feature coercive control. As I prepare for our final days work with practitioners I am reading around the commentary on the situationContinue reading “Shining Lights”
Fake News and Fabrications
I am in Holland today, training a group of practitioners to understand and work with parental alienation. As I do so, I am also receiving messages from people who are concerned about information coming from the Childress blog. In the summer I issued a statement about Craig Childress’s misrepresentations of my work, after which IContinue reading “Fake News and Fabrications”
Help at Holiday Times
Today is thanksgiving in the USA. I made this for parents there and delivered it earlier this week. I thought it might be helpful for all of my readers. I will make some more audio and video pieces with Nick soon for PADirect which we will launch in the new year. Wherever you are inContinue reading “Help at Holiday Times”
The Battle for Britain’s Alienated Children (The Hybrid Myth)
Breaking down the risks ahead for parents and children affected by parental alienation in the UK, we looked earlier this week at the high conflict myth. The notion that PA is all about high conflict is one which has been enthusiastically embraced by CAFCASS in their recent declaration of expertise in this field. For aContinue reading “The Battle for Britain’s Alienated Children (The Hybrid Myth)”
The Battle for Britain’s Alienated Children (The High Conflict Myth).
Those of you reading the news in the UK over the past few days, would be forgiven for thinking that a breakthrough was occurring here. Before you break out the bubbly however, let me further set this news in context because, far from this being something to celebrate, the news that CAFCASS have finally ‘gotContinue reading “The Battle for Britain’s Alienated Children (The High Conflict Myth).”
Beware of False Prophets
You heard it here first folks, the dumbing down of parental alienation has already begun in the UK, with the announcement in the Guardian yesterday that CAFCASS are trialling ‘intense therapy’ for parental alienation cases. This ‘intense therapy’ is being proposed alongside punitive measures such as the ‘permanent loss of contact with a child’ andContinue reading “Beware of False Prophets”
Children of The Revolution (UK)
There is a revolution coming in the UK in terms of the recognition that a child’s complete rejection of a parent is a maladaptive response to the family drama of divorce and separation. This revolution, which could be a bloodless coup or a downright messy, all out war, is coming off the back of theContinue reading “Children of The Revolution (UK)”
The Battle for Britain (2)
In a world which is rapidly waking up to the reality of parental alienation, it is interesting to take a look around the UK at what is going on in terms of work with parental alienation and work to raise the profile of the problem of parental alienation. Although I have spent much of thisContinue reading “The Battle for Britain (2)”
Upside Down and Back to Front
I am currently working on a series of pieces for parents which are focused on how to remain sane as an alienated parent. In doing so I find myself back down the rabbit hole where the world is upside down and back to front. There is a reason why those of us who do thisContinue reading “Upside Down and Back to Front”
PASG 2017 – Video Presentations
The following sample presentations on You Tube are all from PASG 2017 and showcase all of the work which is going on around the world to develop and deliver the right kind of interventions in this field of work. By clicking on any one of the following you will get to the whole list ofContinue reading “PASG 2017 – Video Presentations”
The Dimly Lit World of the Alienated Child
I was asked a question recently about how one can recover as an alienated child. Clearly the person asking the question was beginning the process of working through the reasons why they, as a young adult, may think about the world in a different way to other people. In responding to the question, I foundContinue reading “The Dimly Lit World of the Alienated Child”
The Ghosts of All Possible Pasts
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” Anna Karenina – Tolstoi This weekend I am spending my last couple of days in the USA in New York, staying just around the corner from ground zero, where the names of people who died in the attacks of theContinue reading “The Ghosts of All Possible Pasts”
