Burdened Children

PART 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