Karen Woodall

Tomorrow Nick and I travel to Israel to work with Psychologists and Psychotherapists at the College of Western Galilee.  Over three days, the FSC model of differentiation and intervention in…

Last week I put a call out to adults alienated as children, inviting them to take part in my research which will form the basis of a new therapy for…

Getting the core of the problem of parental alienation has been my goal since I began work with families affected by a child's pathological splitting and rejection behaviours some thirteen…

We are back in London after our work in Zagreb, which has led to discussions about the next European Association of Parental Alienation Practitioners conference in 2020, at which we…

Yesterday Nick and I were honoured to give a public lecture at the Institute of Public Health Education in Zagreb on our work with alienated children and their families as…

Today we have been working with colleagues at the Child Protection Centre in Zagreb on traumatic splitting in children of divorce and separation.  Tomorrow Nick and I will give a…

Nick and I are today preparing a public lecture for social welfare practitioners and parents in Zagreb, Croatia.. With our partners at theChild Protection Centre in Zagreb, led by Professor.…

As I continue my journey to develop a new approach to therapy for families affected by parental alienation I am reminded of how fractured thinking abounds within those families. Psychological…

Today Nick is in Bucharest in Romania speaking at  the interdisciplinary approach of litigation with minor in cases of Parental Alienation Conference with leading Romanian Judiciary. This conference is held…

In my work with alienated children and their families, I am aware that they are often not the only children in the room with me. For those who are aware…

It is only when the underlying predicament of the alienated child is fully understood that the particular language used by alienated children can be recognised. As part of the work…

The term parental alienation is used widely to describe a child's unjustified rejection of a parent after family separation.  Unjustified rejection is described as a child rejecting a parent when…

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Despite the efforts of political ideological groups to prevent it, on May 25th 2019, the World Health Organisation accepted the current version of ICD-11 which contains within it the index…

Parental alienation doesn't just affect the horizontal family line, parents and children, it affects the vertical family line too, the grandparents and great grandparents.  This week I have been sent…

As the two biggest network of organizations promoting and protecting the rights of women and children, we have observed with grave concern that the safety and wellbeing of women and…

If you watched the Victoria Derbyshire show yesterday you would be forgiven for thinking that we were back to the turn of the century in the UK on the topic…

Jed remembers that he took flowers to his mother and she didn't say thank you. He remembers that he felt very hurt and told his dad. His dad told him…

Life.  One thing I know about it is that it doesn’t stay the same.  Everything changes and being able to recognise that is one of the key resilience skills for…

Life isn't easy at times and one thing I have come to know is that things change and life bowls all sorts of balls at us in an effort to…

Wilderness is a play about the impact on children of family separation, it runs until April 27th at the Hampstead Theatre in London - try to see it if you…

I work with families affected by the infantile defence of psychological splitting, this is the core wound experienced in parental alienation. As I continue on my journey, I understand that…

It is a decade since I worked with Thomas Moore to assist in reuniting him with his son after many years apart.  You can read about his journey and our…

I have been working for some time now on a new therapeutic approach with families affected by parental alienation which has its roots in trans-generational family therapy as developed by…

Wordpress congratulated me today on a decade of blogging.  I knew it was around this time I sat down to write my first blog on the subject of parental alienation,…

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be…

 PARENTAL ALIENATION STUDY GROUP THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — September 12–14, 2019  Mark your calendars for September 12–14, 2019. Preparations are underway for PASG2019, the third annual conference of…

I carry with me a piece of advice given to me at school by my history teacher. It is one of my most treasured possessions -  the exhortation to ‘question…

Once upon a time there was a little girl, her daddy called her his little princess.  Daddy took his little princess everywhere with him, he was so proud of his…

One of the biggest problems which we face when working with parental alienation is the lack of understanding in professionals around the family of the need for the rebuilding of…

A conflict, by definition, must involve two or more sides (unless it is within you). Therefore if parental alienation is about high conflict divorce it  must mean that both of you…

As I continue with my research alongside my therapeutic work with families, I am building a new approach to working with families affected by parental alienation which combines trans-generational psychotherapy…

''That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet The term parental alienation is increasingly coming to public consciousness,…

Leading the Way in Romania The interdisciplinary approach of litigation with minor in cases of Parental Alienation Conference -16-17 of May 2019 - Bucharest, Romania. Bucharest Tribunal together with an…

Wilderness is a play about parental alienation written by Kellie Smith whose experience in writing for performance is extensive and impressive.  Next month in London, the Hampstead Theatre in London will…

Resolving cases of parental alienation requires the interlocking interventions of the family court and mental health. Those of us who do this work know that this is a given and…

There are some extraordinarily difficult relational scenarios within the overall group of families which are affected by parental alienation, one of the most difficult being the ‘non alienating’ alienating parent.…

We are convening our 2019 Training and Development Group for professionals in the helping therapies who would like to develop their practice in the field of parental alienation. This is…