Karen Woodall

This is the official website of Karen Woodall where I write about Coerced Alignment of children in divorce and separation and Lighthouse Keeping, which is our adapted therapeutic parenting training for parents in the rejected position.

My new book is called The Journey of the Alienated Child, it will be published by Routledge in Autumn 2026.

I am currently writing the Clinical Handbook for working with coerced children with Nick Woodall who is co-founder of the Family Separation Clinic and you can find out more about that and other books we are writing and resources we are creating by following the links below.

For information about my clinical work including training and supervision for professionals training please go to the Family Separation Clinic

For details of our Lighthouse Keeping Courses and Resources

For Watch on Demand Services please go to FSCparenting.com

Our new Lighthouse Keeping Club subscription service will be available in 2026 for details of this and other resources to support you, please subscribe to our Therapeutic Parenting Newsletter below.

EAPAP2020: Introducing the next chapter of our work

PROGRAM

DAY 1 / SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

09.00-10.30

Opening addresses

09.00-09.10

Leading change in a complex field: Introducing core concepts of reformulated practice  

Gordana Buljan Flander

09.10-10.00

Where we have come from: Historical perspectives of parental alienation in research

Wilfred von Boch-Galau

10.00-10.15

About EAPAP 

Nick Woodall

10.15-11.30

Keynote Lecture 

Assessing and treating alienation using a psychoanalytic model 

Karen Woodall and Nick Woodall

11.30-12.00

12.00-13.15

12.00-12.45

Break

Power and control

“It’s not just what, but how they do it”: Using patterns of parental alienating behaviors to determine intent to harm

Jennifer Harman

12.45-13.15

‘I learned more in this single session than from all the help I was given over the past two years’ – The impact of coercive control on post-divorce relationships between mothers and their children as seen through the lens of a case study on restoring reciprocal mother-child contact

Sietske Dijkstra

13.15-13.45

Break

13.45-15.30

Alienation and attachment issues 

13.45-14.15

Attachment – (re) rupture in COVID-19 

Mirela Badurina

14.15-15.00

Attachment pitfalls   

Gordana Buljan Flander

15.00-15.30

Toxic stress in children 

Vanja Slijepčević Saftić

15.30-16.30

Reformulated practice 

15.30-16.00

Screening of child alienation and risk assessment in conflict parenting situations in the social welfare system

Marina Ajduković and Tatjana Katkić Stanić

16.00-16.30

Clinical perspective: Alienated child – traumatized child?

Bruna Profaca

DAY 2 / SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

09.00-11.00

Clinical perspectives 

09.00-10.00

Confronting policy and clinical challenges: Perspectives from Israel

Inbal Kivenson Bar-On and Benjamin Bailey

10.00-10.30

Splitting: A psychiatric perspective 

Milica Pejović Milovančević

10.30-11.00

Psychiatric consequences of alienation

Vlatka Boričević Maršanić

11.00-11.30

Break

11.30-12.00

Psychopathology of parents in alienation

Danijel Crnković

12.00-12.30

Diagnoses associated with parental alienation in child custody dispute forensic investigations

Marina Walter and Thomas Demessence

12.30-13.30

Round table discussion 

Healing relational trauma in children of divorce and separation

Moderator: Karen Woodall

Panellists: Benjamin Bailey, Claire Francica, Joan Long

13.30-14.00

Break

14.00-15.00

Keynote Lecture

The shadow of our ghosts: Generations of ruptures

Jill Salberg 

15.00-15.30

Live Q&A session with Jill Salberg

15.30-16.00

Working with children’s responses to transgenerational trauma 

Karen Woodall

DAY 3 / SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 / LECTURES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

09.00-14.30

Legal management of cases 

09.00-09.45

Family law and parental alienation in Portugal   

Sandra Feitor

09.45-10.15

False allegations of abuse in families 

Domagoj Štimac

10.15-11.00

Addressing false allegations in court 

Brian Ludmer

11.00-11.30

Break

11.30-13.00

Regional panel 

Legal and mental health strategies in the region 

Moderator: Lana Peto Kujundžić

Panellists: Danica Ergovac, Ana Hrabar, Eleonora Katić, Kolinda Kolar, Teodora Minčić, Sara Jerebić

13.00-13.30

Break

13.30-14.00

Duties and challenges of judges in family disputes

Renata Šantek

14.00-14.30

Protecting Practitioners – Allegations against professionals

Karen Woodall and Kelley Baker

14.30-15.00

Conference close 

Conclusions, learning, towards a new integrated model of practice informed research    

Gordana Buljan Flander, Karen Woodall, Simona Vladica, Sietska Dijkstra, Wilfred von Boch-Galau and Nick Woodall

PARALEL SESSION FOR PARENTS

09.30-11.30

Parallel Session for Parents

Karen and Nick Woodall 


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