The restoration of health, for rejected parents, begins with an understanding of what has happened internally and how that has become entangled with the child’s own splitting reactions. When parents are able to map this splitting across the family system, their own reactive splitting can integrate and they can begin the work of developing the healthy mirror needed by the child.
Parents who have healed reactive splitting can then learn to apply the skills of therapeutic parenting. This is an approach to parenting children who are suffering from attachment disorder due to being emotionally and psychologically harmed. Alienated children with therapeutic parents are shown, in evaluation, to be able to recover quickly from the underlying harms which have caused their rejecting behaviours.
The Family Separation Clinic offers a wide range of resources and courses for parents who want to learn about Therapeutic Parenting, you can find out more by emailing me at Karen@karenwoodall.blog – put the words ADD ME in the subject title and I will add you to the list and send you our latest Newsletter.
Karen Woodall - Psychotherapist, Writer, Researcher, Trainer 