Author: karenwoodall

Coercive control is defined in the UK, in section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 as follows – Controlling or coercive behaviour in an

enmeshment n. a condition in which two or more people, typically family members, are involved in each other’s activities and personal relationships to an excessive

The task to demonstrate that a child who is rejecting a parent outright is displaying symptoms of hyper-alignment with the parent they are clinging to,

On March 26 2009, I wrote my first blog. It was Mother’s Day and I wrote for alienated mothers around the world and my understanding

For many decades now, divorce and separation have been treated as an everyday occurence, something that happens to many families and something that should be

It is Mothering Sunday in the UK and I woke up this morning to read a letter from a mother who is worried that she