Recognizing the Humanity of the Victimizer: Clinical and Social Implications

Assessing Parentification in South American College Students: A Factor Analytic Study of a Spanish Version of the Parentification Inventory

“…The expansive literature on parentification in American college students has shown that this familial process and its associated roles, responsibilities, and relationships adversely affect many children and can later be linked to adult psychopathology and poor intra‐ and interpersonal functioning and outcomes (Chase, ; Jones & Wells, ; Wells & Jones, ). For example, in the context of American college student samples, parentification has been shown to be linked with depressive symptoms and major depressive disorder (Hooper, Doehler, Jankowski, & Tomek, ; Martin, ), academic underachievement (Chase, Demming, & Wells, ), attachment style and trauma (Hooper, Marotta, & Lanthier, ; Howard, ), characterological and personality disturbances and disorders (Castro, Jones, & Mirsalimi, ; Jones & Wells, ; Wells & Jones, ), substance use and dependence (Hooper, Doehler, Wallace, & Hannah, ; Jankowski & Hooper, in press; Locke & Newcomb, ), and disordered eating behaviors (Rowa, Kerig, & Geller, ).…”

“…Parentification and its effects can be carried forward generation after generation (Kerig, ; Minuchin, ; Minuchin, Montalvo, Guerney, Rosman, & Schumer, ). This transmission of parentification across multiple generations has been discussed extensively in the literature (see Byng‐Hall, ; Garber, ; Howard, ). Byng‐Hall () reported on the implicit encouragement and validation that parentification affords to family members, who often repeat compulsive family caregiving across generations.…”