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Patterns of Child Abuse: How Dysfunctional Transactions Are Replicated in Individuals, Families, and the Child Welfare System
Contributor(s): Karson, Michael (Author), Sparks, Elizabeth (Author)
ISBN: 0789007398     ISBN-13: 9780789007391
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $153.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2001
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Annotation: 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 changing the pattern from within. Synthesizing systems theory, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis, this brilliant book teaches you to subvert the most common destructive patterns and therefore to help heal children and families caught in the child welfare system.
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BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Abuse - General
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Social Science | Social Work
Dewey: 362.768
LCCN: 00049475
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.22" W x 8.72" (1.36 lbs) 268 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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.