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Burdened Children
Theory, Research, and Treatment of Parentification

Edited by:

Nancy D. Chase

Other Titles in:
Parenting | Social Work - Families

May 1999 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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Contents

This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in the family - children who fulfil 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

Nancy D Chase

Parentification

An Overview of Theory, Research and Societal Issues

Deborah Jacobvitz, Shelley Riggs and Elizabeth Johnson

Cross-Sex and Same-Sex Family Alliances

Immediate and Long-Term Effects on Sons and Daughters

Bryan E Robinson

Workaholic Children

One Method of Fulfilling the Parentification Role

Suzanne Lamorey

Parentification of Siblings of Children with Disability or Chronic Disease

Gregory J Jurkovic, Richard Morrell and Alison Thirkield

Assessing Childhood Parentification

Guidelines for Researchers and Clinicians

PART TWO: CLINICAL AND CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES

Marolyn Wells and Rebecca Jones

Object Relations Therapy of Individuals with Narcissistic and Masochistic Parentification Styles

Helen W Coale

Therapeutic Rituals and Rites of Passage

Helping Parentified Children and Their Families

Bruce Lackie

Trauma, Invisibility and Loss

Multiple Metaphors of Parentification

Louis P Anderson

Parentification in the Context of the African American Family

Paula M Reeves

The Archetype of the Parentified Child

A Psychosomatic Presence

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