Workaholic Children: One Method of Fulfilling the Parentification Role

Robinson, Bryan E.

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“…Earley & Cushway, 2002; Vincent, 1996), how it can be measured (e.g. Sessions & Jurkovic, 1986) and the social and psychological consequences for children and adults (e.g. Hooper, 2003; Jurkovic, 1997).…”

Section: The Process Of Parentification: Theoretical Overviewmentioning

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“…A number of psychometric scales may be useful in assessing parentification. Most notably, the Parentification Questionnaire (Sessions & Jurkovic, 1986) requires individuals to report retrospectively about the level of practical and emotional care‐giving that they were involved in before age 16. The Parentification scale (Mika, Bergner, & Baum, 1987) measures the level of care‐giving in current relationships as a reflection of earlier care‐taking roles in the family.…”

Section: Assessment Of Parentification and Formulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Working with parentification: Implications for clients and counselling psychologists

DiCaccavo

2006

Psychol Psychother

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This paper concerns the concept of parentification, whereby children take on inappropriate parental roles. A brief theoretical overview is presented, showing that parentification has important implications for understanding both clients' and counselling psychologists' experiences. Specific ways of assessing adult clients who were parentified as children are described, focusing on parentification criteria and typical profiles. This is followed by a description of a deparentifying process, including exploring shame-based experiences, resisting splitting and working with projective identification. These discussions are illustrated by examples from an anonymized case study of a client who was parentified as a child. Finally, the paper includes a discussion of possible dilemmas and difficulties that may arise when parentified clients and parentified counselling psychologists work together. Although previous literature has discussed parentification separately for counselling psychologists and clients, this paper is unique in its discussion of the interaction between the client's and counselling psychologist's experiences of parentification and the corresponding impact on the therapeutic alliance. The paper concludes by emphasising the importance of personal therapy and supportive working environments for the well-being of counselling psychologists and consequently that of their clients.

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Section: The Process Of Parentification: Theoretical Overviewmentioning

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Section: Assessment Of Parentification and Formulationmentioning

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Working with parentification: Implications for clients and counselling psychologists

DiCaccavo

2006

Psychol Psychother

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“…This family disruption may force the “children to raise themselves” (Chase, 1999, p. 4). This parentification of children interferes with normal development and may result in them feeling unloved, unlovable, and unsafe (Jacobvitz, Riggs, & Johnson, 1999; Robinson, 1999). As adults, these offspring use a variety of methods to cope with the feelings of inadequacy they experience as a result of their childhood, including overeating, using drugs or alcohol, overfunctioning, or becoming excessive caretakers (e.g., Claydon, 1987; Robinson).…”

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Assortative Mating Among Adult Children of Alcoholics and Alcoholics^*

Olmsted¹,

Crowell²,

Waters³

2003

Family Relations

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Relations between parental alcoholism, self-alcoholism, and partner-alcoholism were examined in a nonclinical, non-self-identified sample of 128 married and engaged young couples. Couples were recruited to participate in a longitudinal study of close relationships. They were assessed using three alcoholism questionnaires that included reports of parent-, partner-, and self-alcohol use. Participants were predominantly White and well educated. Cross-sectional analyses indicated that alcoholics tend to marry other alcoholics and that male adult children of alcoholics (ACOA) are more likely to be alcoholic than their female counterparts. The relation between parental alcoholism and partner's alcoholism was affected by self-alcoholism in male participants. There was a significant relation between ACOA status and marriage to alcoholics for women that was not affected by their own alcoholism.

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“…Examples include assuming household chores or caretaking responsibilities for young siblings to bring homeostasis to the family system. The gap of having to forfeit childhood -leaving youngsters void of feelings of approval, reassurance, love, and the comfort and protection from adult pressures -shows up years later as an oft-described, "empty hole inside" (Robinson, 1998a(Robinson, , 1998b.…”

Section: Children Of Workaholicsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…It has been argued that in workaholic-headed families the generation lines that typically insulate children from the parental adult world get violated or blurred and these children become what family therapists call parentified (Robinson, 1997a(Robinson, , 1998b. Parentified children by definition are parents to their own parents and sacrifice their own needs for attention, comfort, and guidance in order to accommodate and care for the emotional needs and pursuits of parents or another family member (Chase, 1998;Jurkovic, 1997).…”

Section: Children Of Workaholicsmentioning

confidence: 97%