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Parentification

Parentification or parent–child role reversal is the process of role reversal whereby a child or adolescent is obliged to support the family system in ways that are developmentally inappropriate and overly burdensome. For example, it is developmentally appropriate for even a very young child to help adults prepare a meal for the family to eat, but it is…

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Parentification

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples48
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
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Parentification

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related to Types · 15
Parentification → Achilles, Adaptive, Destructive, Emotional, For, Homer's, In, Instrumental, Narcissistic, Similarly, Spousification, Teaching, There, This, What
related to Further reading · 13
Parentification → Characterizing, Clinical Psychology, DeCoster, Hooper, Journal, Magnitude, Meta-Analysis, October, PMID, Psychopathology, Relation Between Parentification, Voltz, White
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Parentification → Boszormenyi-Nagy, Eric Berne, Furthermore, In, Melitta Schmideberg, Minuchin, Spousification, Virginia Satir
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Parentification → As, Elder, In, Parentified, When
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Parentification → loss of a developmentally appropriate childhood

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Parentificationis aloss of a developmentally appropriate childhood0.90text
cookinginstance ofgood parents provide opportunities for children and adolescents to practice life skills0.80text
cleaninginstance ofgood parents provide opportunities for children and adolescents to practice life skills0.80text
and caring for othersinstance ofgood parents provide opportunities for children and adolescents to practice life skills0.80text
so they will have these necessary skills when they become adultsinstance ofgood parents provide opportunities for children and adolescents to practice life skills0.80text
but if the amount of household work prevents the child from getting enough rest or from going to schoolinstance ofgood parents provide opportunities for children and adolescents to practice life skills0.80text
then it is overly burdensomeinstance ofgood parents provide opportunities for children and adolescents to practice life skills0.80text
Parentificationhas effectWhen0.60section
Parentificationhas effectElder0.60section
Parentificationhas effectIn0.60section
Parentificationhas effectAs0.60section
Parentificationhas effectParentified0.60section

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