Burdened Children Theory, Research, and Treatment of Parentification [Paperback]

This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in the familychildren who fulfill the role of parents to their own parents or to their siblings, almost always at the expense of their own development. The book is divided into two sections: theory and research and contextual perspectives.

This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in the familychildren who fulfill the role of parents to their own parents or to their siblings, almost always at the expense of their own development. The book is divided into two sections: theory and research and contextual perspectives.

PART ONE: THEORY AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES
Parentification - Nancy D Chase
An Overview of Theory, Research and Societal Issues
Cross-Sex and Same-Sex Family Alliances - Deborah Jacobvitz, Shelley Riggs and Elizabeth Johnson
Immediate and Long-Term Effects on Sons and Daughters
Workaholic Children - Bryan E Robinson
One Method of Fulfilling the Parentification Role
Parentification of Siblings of Children with Disability or Chronic Disease - Suzanne Lamorey
Assessing Childhood Parentification - Gregory J Jurkovic, Richard Morrell and Alison Thirkield
Guidelines for Researchers and Clinicians
PART TWO: CLINICAL AND CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Object Relations Therapy of Individuals with Narcissistic and Masochistic Parentification Styles - Marolyn Wells and Rebecca Jones
Therapeutic Rituals and Rites of Passage - Helen W Coale
Helping Parentified Children and Their Families
Trauma, Invisibility and Loss - Bruce Lackie
Multiple Metaphors of Parentification
Parentification in the Context of the African American Family - Louis P Anderson
The Archetype of the Parentified Child - Paula M Reeves
A Psychosomatic Presence