Patterns of Child Abuse
Because dysfunctional patterns are closed systems that serve a secret purpose, they are almost impossible to change from the outside. This book can help you recognize the purpose behind the patterns! It offers successful strategies for entering the pattern to bring about change and help family members without falling into the trap of joining it and becoming part of the dysfunction.
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Interpret the hidden meaning of family roles to help children at risk!Because dysfunctional patterns are closed systems that serve a secret purpose, they are almost impossible to change from the outside. Patterns of Child Abuse helps you recognize the purpose behind the patterns and offers successful strategies for entering the pattern in order to help family members without joining it and becoming part of the dysfunction. Patterns of Child Abuse identifies the most common, most problematic patterns and explores their hidden meanings. Case studies and theoretical discussions demonstrate the ways family patterns are replicated in a child's psyche and the ways the grown-up child replicates the familiar family pattern, forcing the world to bend to the story within. Synthesizing systems theory, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis, Patterns of Child Abuse offers powerful insights as well as practical strategies for dealing with such complex issues as: how to comfort an abused child who cannot bear to be touched why abused children idealize their battering or neglectful parent how borderline personality organization affects individuals and their families handling the sexually powerful teenage girl, the disruptive boy, and the mother of the sexual abuse victim how family patterns operate in therapeutic context why therapists and social workers may encounter conflicts in child welfare cases when and how paradoxical interventions can work Well-written and insightful, Patterns of Child Abuse conveys a sound theoretical model and a sophisticated approach to the psychology of individuals and families for the child welfare professional. Richard M. Lerner A book of immeasurable value to parents, practitioners, and policymakers. . . . Provides innovative and convincing recommendations about critically needed revisions in the conceptualization, design, and delivery of interventions. This book is a watershed event.
About the AuthorContributorPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. IConceptual Background17Ch. 1The Importance of Patterns19Ch. 2Patterns in the Mind35Ch. 3A Systemic View of the Psyche53Pt. IIGeneral Patterns in Abuse and Neglect79Ch. 4Children's Idealization of Bad Parents81Ch. 5"At Least I'm Not As Bad As My Mother (or Father)"95Ch. 6The Avoidance of Personal Closeness99Ch. 7Seriously Disturbed Patterns111Pt. IIISome Specific Maltreatment Patterns135Ch. 8The Sexual Abuse Victim's Mother137Ch. 9The Sexually Powerful Adolescent Girl151Ch. 10The Disruptive Boy161Ch. 11The Absent Parent Returned171Pt. IVIntervention Patterns177Ch. 12Dysfunctional Treatment Relationships181Ch. 13Role Ambiguity Among Service Providers191Ch. 14The Social Worker and the Family205Ch. 15The State Social Worker in the Role of Parenting Conscience219Ch. 16When All Else Fails227References235Index241
\ Richard M. LernerA book of immeasurable value to parents, practitioners, and policymakers. . . . Provides innovative and convincing recommendations about critically needed revisions in the conceptualization, design, and delivery of interventions. This book is a watershed event.\ \
