As we wind down to our vacation, I am already discussing with colleagues, new services coming through the Lighthouse Project to bring greater support for
Month: August 2020
Reactive splitting in Rejected parents: the hidden cost of living with negative projection
In recent articles I have been talking about splitting, a defence mechanism which is used by the alienated child to cope with the intolerable situation
Relational trauma in divorce and separation
In September the EAPAP Conference will focus upon the component parts of how a child comes to reject a parent outright in divorce and separation.
‘I DID NOT SEE MY DAUGHTERS FOR YEARS:’ THE IMPACT OF COERCIVE CONTROL ON POST-DIVORCE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MOTHERS AND CHILDREN – Dr Sietska Dijkstra
Dr Dijkstra is a Board member of the European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners. She will be presenting at the third conference of EAPAP in
Best Practice in Work with Alienated Children and Families – Israel
As the third conference of the European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners draws closer this is an article from Parental Alienation Europe, the Newsletter of
Dealing with Splitting: The Good, the Bad and avoiding the Ugly
Yesterday I ran our Zoom Seminar entitled Understanding the Alienated Child, which was attended by people from seven countries around the world. Eighty percent of
