It's a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of one or both parents. Despite this terrible beginning, many people make it out successfully and go on to build satisfying lives. Now ...
Along with having to deal with that sacrifice for some, over a decade, the titles “deadbeat” / “unfit” take its place. But, when the real truth is that’s how hard it is… we would rather take the titles then keep fighting a battle that can’t be won. The takeaway from this ...
内容提示: Affirmation for Adult Children of Abusive Parents 请常默念心理治疗的言语 ——针对童年受父母虐待的成年人 1、 坚决划清界限使我在任何境遇中都感到安全。 重视自己, 疏忽别人。 不再无报酬加班,当拒绝某些要求时不要解释, 不要展开讨论。 2、 我不需要任何人的赞同, 我是我自己行为的最佳判官。
Forty-five families (22 court-referred abusive families and 23 control families) participated in a laboratory play task as part of a larger study on family processes and child abuse (Reid, 1986). We led each family into a play room, asked the parents to play with the child for a 10-...
Examines the abuse of parents by their children: how to define and identify parent abuse, profile of the teen likely to be violent, profile of the family, the effect of abuse on the family, reasons behind the abuse including mental health and medical issues, and ways to end the abuse. Al...
Group Therapy for Abusive Parents and Their ChildrenGroup therapy is recognized as a treatment modality for the child abuser and the abused. This article presents a review of the literature on this subject, focusing particularly on those articles that describe this modality in detail. Guiding ...
This book was written for teenagers and older children who have abusive, alcoholic, or mentally ill parents. Emphasis is placed on young people in such situations using their intelligence, understanding that parents are fallible, viewing the future with optimism, facing reality, and seeing the good...
child doesn't seem to notice or mind, is problematic. Hugging, "playing," rubbing, lap-sitting, and any other physical contact might be considered abusive. Remember, sexual abuse need not involve touch at all—a child can be sexually abused with words only, for example, or with a camera...
It"s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That"s especially true of children who remain in abusive homes because the law blindly favors biological parents. It"s also true of children who suffer for year...
D. They were attacked with a disease. 3 Over the past few years, a growing number of America’s parentless children have found homes. In 2008 there were 463,000 children in foster care, a system where the government places orphans and children with parents who are abusive or unable to ...