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The Journey of the Alienated Child: Healing the Hidden Trauma of Divorce and Separation

Author(s) : Karen Woodall

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. How to use this book
- Taking your time
- Therapist Notes

2. When Your Child Rejects You
- Putting your oxygen mask on first
- Therapist Note

3. Childhood Relational Trauma
- The Dynamics of Childhood Relational Trauma in Divorce and Separation
- The Projective Pantomime
- Moving Beyond Heroes and Villains
- Therapist Notes

4. Lighthouse Keeping
- Building foundations for helping and healing
- Understanding
- Foundational Healing Steps
- Stabilising and Anchoring
- Containing and Connecting
- Signalling and Guiding
- Healing - The Journey Back to Wholeness
- Therapist Note

5. The Journey of the Alienated Child
- Therapist Note

6. The Right Action at the Right Time
- Trouble Shooting Skills
- Therapist Notes

7. Stage 1 Onset: Disorganised Attachment
- What is disorganised attachment in this context?
- What is happening to the child in stage one?
- Projective entanglements
- Behaviours seen in stage one
- If my child is being harmed, shouldn't I try to stop it?
- Mentalising in stage one
- Operationalising stage one
- Avoid placating
- Routine, boundaries and protection
- Create a protection plan
- Holding space in stage one
- Therapist Note

8. Stage 2: Disappearance into Splitting
- When Children Disappear
- A Case Study
- Therapist Notes

9. Stage 3: Emergence with Disturbance in Self Organisation
- The Landscape of Emergence
- What is Happening to the Child in Stage Three
- Emergence Predictions
- Mentalising
- Ambivalence and Shifting Emotions
- Operationalising
- Integration Follows Emergence
- A Case Study
- Therapist Note

10. Stage 4: Integration
- What is Happening to the Child in Stage 4
- Behaviours in Stage 4
- Notice Your Child's Behaviour
- Holding Space: The Language of Parts
- Moving Toward Integration: An Interpersonal Neurobiological View
- The Work in Practice
- Holding the Mirror Until the Self Returns
- Therapist Notes

11. Helping Your Child to Find Their Way Home
- Therapist Notes

Notes

Index