| Description |
1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedications -- Contents -- SECTION I Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Why a Field Guide? -- Fractals and Nested Hierarchies -- Complexity and Coherence -- Power and Control -- Dynamics -- Why Does This Matter? -- Chapter 3 Healthy Child and Family Development -- Defining Family Systems -- What Is a Healthy Family System? -- Development Is Contextually Driven -- Internal Working Models -- Cause and Effect Merge Once Again -- IWMs Are Shaped from Both within and outside the Relationship |
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Development Is a Gradual Progression from Undifferentiated to Optimal Differentiation and Back Again -- Resilience -- Identity Is How the Individual Balances Need Fulfillment from within and Connectedness Without -- When Family Systems Fail -- The Judicial System -- Chapter 4 Bias and Family Forensic Practice -- Bias, Attitudes, Stereotypes, and Prejudice -- Bias Drives Black-and-White Thinking -- Definitions, Prototypes, and Biases -- Bias and Resist/Refuse Dynamics -- Parents Have Biases, Too -- Chapter 5 The Motives That Yield Destructive Family Dynamics -- Looking under the Hood |
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Relationships Happen at the Nexus of Needs -- The Child's Need for Affiliation -- Refueling -- Adults Need to Be Refueled, Too -- The Parent's Need to Win -- The Grieving Parent -- Evolution and Self-Blame -- Structure Minimizes Anxiety -- Chapter 6 The Professional's Humility, Limitations, and Role within the System -- Roles within Adversarial Systems -- When Families Enlist Professional Helpers -- Science, Not Séance -- Stay in Your Lane -- SECTION II Taxonomy: The Dynamics of the Conflicted Family System -- Chapter 7 Triangulation -- Healthy Triangulation? -- Pathological Triangulation |
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When Children Are Triangulated within the Family System -- Children as Agents of Triangulation? -- Does Adult Intent Matter? -- The Developmental Impact of Triangulation -- Institutionalized Efforts to Prevent Triangulation -- Chapter 8 The Chameleon Child -- Adaptation Means Survival -- Dynamics, Not Diagnoses -- The Chameleon Effect -- The Chameleon Effect and High-Conflict Divorce -- The Chameleon Child and Custody Determinations -- Chapter 9 The Polarized Child -- Not All Molehills Are Mountains -- Polarized Fractals? -- Enumerating Relationship Pressures and Practical Hurdles |
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Chapter 10 Enmeshment -- A Developmental Perspective -- It's Impossible to Understand Enmeshment outside of Its Developmental Context -- Even Parents Need to Be Refueled -- The Relationship Ecology of Parent-Child Enmeshment -- Developmental Decalage -- Intergenerational Enmeshment? -- Enmeshment, Estrangement, and Alienation? -- Is This Enmeshment, Estrangement, or Alienation? -- Chapter 11 Adultification -- Many and Varied Meanings -- Parenting Styles? -- Adultification Is More Common in Certain Relationship Ecologies -- Who Gets Adultified? -- Healthy Adultification? |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Adultification Co-Occurs with Other Destructive Dynamics |
| Subject |
Domestic relations -- United States -- Psychological aspects
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Forensic psychology -- United States
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Litigants -- Family relationships -- United States -- Psychology
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Parent and child -- United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mulchay, Chris
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| ISBN |
9781639050116 |
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1639050116 |
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