Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.
Contents:
Why a field guide? -- Healthy child and family development -- Bias and family forensic practice -- The motives that yield destructive family dynamics -- The professional's humility, limitations, and role within the system -- Taxonomy : the dynamics of the conflicted family system -- Triangulation -- The chameleon child -- The polarized child -- Enmeshment -- Adultification -- Parentification -- Infantilization and the helicopter parent -- Estrangement or justified rejection -- Alienation -- At the intersection where the family system meets the legal system -- Ipse dixit and the language of experts -- Remedies -- Where metaphors fail -- Resources.
Summary:
"This book is about shifting the focus of family law assessments and interventions and legal representation from the individual to relationships"--Provided by the publisher.
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