Understanding Parental Alienation Specialist Workshop for Parents UK 19 Oct 201821 Oct 2018 Our next workshop for parents in the UK will be held in central London on December 8th. This one day intensive workshop is focused upon helping parents to more deeply…
Self Defence and the Shut Down Reaction in Alienated Children and Rejected Parents 18 Oct 2018 I am currently working with a group of young people who suffered the pathological splitting reaction in their early teens and who have reunited with their parent in their early…
Fogging the Issue: CAFCASS and The High Conflict Pathway 14 Oct 201814 Oct 2018 This week CAFCASS have released their High Conflict Pathway, which is guidance for practitioners which includes what to do when children reject a parent. Originally entitled the High Conflict Pathway,…
International Standards of Practice with Families Affected by Parental Alienation 11 Oct 2018 There is a more than a little bit of disarray in the UK at the moment around the subject of parental alienation. From CAFCASS and Nagalro who are busy peddling…
Pass the Parcel: Trans-generational Haunting in Parental Alienation 10 Oct 201810 Oct 2018 This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults…
Bridging the Gap: The Truth About Reunification Work 8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018 One of the startling features of reunification work is the way in which the child’s psychologically split state of mind is mirrored by the rejected parent. This is a problem,…
Training For Professionals in Europe 3 Oct 20183 Oct 2018 Ahead of the next meeting of EAPAP in Strasbourg in November we will be delivering a two day training for professionals which is approved by EAPAP. Anyone who is considering…
Regulating Practice and Protecting Parents and Children 2 Oct 2018 As we move into the Autumn months in the UK and Europe we are preparing for the next stage in our work to regulate practice in the field of parental…
Healing the Heart in Parental Alienation 29 Sep 201829 Sep 2018 One of the greatest difficulties when a child is being alienated is the manner in which the witnessing of the harm being done and the helplessness to prevent it, can…
All Those Things We Ever Were 24 Sep 201824 Sep 2018 Monday morning and I am on my rounds again. As I zig zag across the country, meeting family and friends between working with families affected by parental alienation, I am…
The Heart of the Matter: Learning from the Experts in Parental Alienation 17 Sep 201817 Sep 2018 Having spent five days in the company of the world leading authorities in parental alienation, I am reminded again of the depth of the scientific field and both the passion…
The Terrorised Child: The Ideological Distortion of Parenting 14 Sep 201814 Sep 2018 One of the themes which is bubbling up from the media reporting of parental alienation in recent weeks is the ideological viewpoint that children have the right to decide whether…
PA-UK News Update 12 Sep 201812 Sep 2018 Arriving back home from Switzerland last night I was woken by Nick to see the short piece on parental alienation on the BBC News at ten last night. Having fallen…
Clinical Reasoning, Cognitive Dissonance and the Unreliability of CAFCASS 8 Sep 20188 Sep 2018 Five days after the European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners Conference in London, at which eighteen of the world’s leading authorities on parental alienation delivered what Sir Paul Coleridge, (a…
Internationally Recognised Training for Reunification of Alienated Children and Families – Tasmania 2018 4 Sep 20184 Sep 2018 For all enquiries please email office@familyseparationclinic, for bookings please email us for a booking form and an invoice will be sent to you. We have six places left for this…
EAPAP 2018 – Headlines from Day Two 1 Sep 2018 Day two of the EAPAP Conference was focused upon the mental health interventions which are seen to be effective around the world with alienated children and their families. In the…
Headlines from Day One – EAPAP2018 31 Aug 2018 Chaired by Sir Paul Coleridge, Day One of the European Association of Practitioners Conference was attended by 140 delegates from eleven countries around the world, including Hong Kong, New Zealand,…
EAPAP 2018 – Introducing International Standards of Practice 30 Aug 201830 Aug 2018 Today we launch the internationally recognised standards of practice in the field of parental alienation. Today we pledge to families in Europe that you will have the choice and chance…
Opening a New Chapter: Introducing International Standards of Practice with Families Affected by Parental Alienation 27 Aug 201827 Aug 2018 Parental alienation is the unjustified rejection, by a child, of a parent who was seen to be loved dearly. It occurs in the post separation landscape and it is often…
PASGNORDIC Conference 2018: Change is Here 26 Aug 2018 We are just back from Skeppenholmen in Stockholm where the second international conference of the Parent Alienation Study Group was held on the 24th and 25th August. Although our trip…
One Movement with Many Hands – Changing the World for Abused Children of Divorce and Separation 23 Aug 2018 Today marks the beginning of a major phase of change in which many of the leading authorities in the world are coming together to create change for abused children of…
Introducing the Chairs of EAPAP 2018 21 Aug 201821 Aug 2018 Here in London we are busy preparing to fly to Sweden for the PASGNordic Conference in Stockholm on Friday and Saturday of this week. At the same time we are…
Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: Treating the Split State of Mind in Children and Young People Affected by Parental Alienation 21 Aug 2018 I work daily with children, young people and adults who are affected by parental alienation. In doing so I come to notice those things which are similar as well as…
Introducing International Standards of Practice: Best Practice From the UK 20 Aug 2018 The EAPAP Conference will hear from leading UK legal people on best practice in dealing with cases where children reject a parent after separation. Leading UK Barristers will speak about…
Introducing the Legal and Mental Health Interlock in Internationally Recognised Standards of Practice 18 Aug 2018 The Internationally Recognised Standards of Practice in the field of Parental Alienation will be introduced by the European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners at the EAPAP 2018 Conference on August…
EAPAP 2018: The Programme 16 Aug 2018 We continue to build the structures for significant change for children and families affected by parental alienation. With only two weeks to go now until we welcome delegates to the…
Jennifer Harman Joins the EAPAP 2018 Conference Programme 14 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 Exciting news today that Jennifer Harman, writer, researcher and expert in the field of parental alienation, will join us to present at the Conference on day two. Jennifer is a…
Why Moving Upstream to Prevent Parental Alienation Matters 12 Aug 201812 Aug 2018 The title of the EAPAP Conference 2018 is ‘Moving Upstream’ and focuses upon the internationally recognised standards of practice which are being curated in preparation for regulation of this field…
Establishing International Standards of Practice with Children of Divorce and Family Separation: EAPAP Conference 2018 10 Aug 201810 Aug 2018 The time has come to set recognised standards of practice for practitioners who work with children and families affected by divorce and family separation. The European Association of Parental Alienation…
No More Confusion of Tongues: Parental Alienation Awareness in Europe 8 Aug 20188 Aug 2018 As the momentum builds towards the European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners Conference in London at the end of this month, the range of delegates attending increases in numbers and…
Joining the Dots: Calling for Parent Views for EAPAP 2018 6 Aug 2018 The European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners will be launched at our Conference in London on August 30&31st. This is our first major conference and it marks the end of…
Telling the Worldwide Truth about Parental Alienation 3 Aug 20183 Aug 2018 In the run up to three major conferences focusing upon parental alienation around the world, we are busy preparing for the next phase of work in this emerging scientific field.…
Parental Alienation In Focus: Psychological Splitting and Recognised Standards of Practice 1 Aug 2018 'Specifically, the expressed lack of ambivalence as manifested by the alienated child serves as an observable defining characteristic of the presence of parental alienation. The understanding of this phenomenon provides…
The Road Less Travelled By: Building the Right Way With EAPAP 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost. There are diverging paths in…
Removing the Masks: The Necessity of the Counter-Intuitive in Parental Alienation 22 Jul 2018 Some would have it that all parental alienation involves personality disorder, I disagree. Some children become alienated in situations where there isn’t a whiff of personality disorder in sight and…
Bridging the Gap with EAPAP: Protecting Practitioners, Parents and Competence 19 Jul 201819 Jul 2018 The European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners is getting ready to welcome its first members, who are practitioners who want to demonstrate competence and adherence to the internationally recognised standards…
Stealing the Soul of a Child: Parental Alienation Changes the Life Chances of Children 16 Jul 201816 Jul 2018 I am currently fully immersed in study whilst preparing for our conference in August. As I continue to read and compare my understanding with my observations of the children I…
Undoing Mind Games: Helping Alienated Children 13 Jul 2018 Recently I have been working on a new approach to helping alienated children, an approach which combines the recognised interventions used in short term dynamic psychotherapy, with my understanding of…
Supporting Parents Around the World 9 Jul 2018 As we begin the build up to the EAPAP Conference in London next month, I have something exciting to announce for parents who are affected by parental alienation on around…
The Emotional and Psychological Terrorist: False Allegations in Parental Alienation 7 Jul 20188 Jul 2018 Many of the cases I work with feature allegations of harm. The allegations can range from mild to severe, from a child being chastised, to a child being involved in…
