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Book SynopsisEditor Nancy Chase defines parentified children as parents to their parentsthose are the children who are compelled to fulfill the role of parent at the expense of their own developmentally appropriate needs and pursuits. With uncanny sensibilities, these children are attuned to their parents' moods, wishes, vulnerabilities, and nuances. This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in the family, covering both theoretical as well as clinical topics. Contributors have written chapters that are grouped into two sections: theory and research, and clinical and broader contextual perspectives. Part One of this book covers research related to parentification and gender, work addiction, families with a disabled or chronically ill child, and assessment for clinical or research practices. The chapters having a stronger clinical or contextual emphasis address varied interventions and theoretical orientations and posit parentification in cultural and ethnic contexts. Students, academics, and professionals in areas of family studies, social work, child abuse, developmental psychology, school psychology, and family therapy will find Burdened Children an excellent resource on this phenomenon.
Table of ContentsPART 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
