Sentences with phrase «complaints against the targeted parent»

«Current practices in reunification therapy may involve simply listening to the child's litany of complaints against the targeted parent, having the targeted parent apologize to the child for supposed parental failures (often exaggerated, distorted, or even fabricated by the child), and encouraging the further disempowerment of the targeted parent who must seek to appease the child, continually, and without success in altering the child's rejection.