Sentences with phrase «role reversal relationships»

A study published in 2005 in the same journal found that role reversal relationships are more common when mothers experienced role reversals with their own parents.

Mother - daughter role reversal relationships are marked by daughters taking on a supportive role, providing care - taking and other parental behaviors, with mothers relying on daughters for support.

Not exact matches

As the North American oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.

(Except for the reversal of sexual roles, this was — according to the feminine mystique — a classic example of the ideal relationship.)

Due to the dynamic nature of the pairwise interactions, role reversals did occur during walks and an individual took the role of the leader in a given pair in about 73 % (ranging from 57 % to 85 %) of their interactions, where directed leader - follower relationships were found.

«In a classic enmeshed relationship, parents allow their own troubles and insecurities to promote a role - reversal relationship where the child is used to meet the parent's emotional needs for support, nurturance, comforting and sense of self - worth.

A reversal of roles occurs near the end of pursuer - distancer relationships, just as it does in demand - withdraw.

Children of mothers with BPD expressed more fear of abandonment, role reversal and more negative expectations of parent — child relationships in a role - play situation.

Compared with control children, they had more difficulties with friendships, 29 poorer theory of mind, 16 difficulties labelling and understanding the causes of common emotions, 16 increased fantasy proneness and difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality, 31 increased negative attributional style, dysfunctional attitudes, rumination and self - criticism.32 They also experience difficulties in the mother — child relationship, with four studies reporting high levels of disrupted attachment styles, 21, 29, 31, 32 and in role - play scenarios elevated levels of role - reversal with parents, fear of abandonment, and negative expectations of parents.31 These factors are known to put children at risk of poor mental health outcomes, and indeed, this appears to be the case.

Four studies showed that children of mothers with BPD had elevated instances of disrupted attachment styles.21, 29, 31, 32 Additionally, in role - play tasks, children of mothers with BPD (aged 4 — 7 years) showed excessive role - reversal, 31 and fear of abandonment in their relationships with their parents, and more negative expectations of these relationships.

The appearance of bonding between the child and the narcissistic / (borderline) parent is NOT a sign of a positive parent - child relationship, but is instead a symptom of severe psychopathology called a role - reversal relationship, with its source in the pathogenic parenting of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

While other developmental factors can lead to a role - reversal relationship (such as parental alcoholism), the symptomatic presence in «parental alienation» of both a role - reversal relationship and borderline personality organization in the parent suggests the possible presence of sexual abuse «source code» in the internal working models of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's attachment system that was inserted into the trans - generational transmission of attachment patterns (Benoit & Parker, 1994; Bretherton, 1990; Jacobvitz, Morgan, Kretchmar, & Morgan, 1991).

Role - reversal relationships are an extremely common feature of narcissistic and borderline parenting.

What may superficially appear to be a bonded parent - child relationship between the child and the allied and supposedly «favored» narcissistic / (borderline) parent actually represents a role - reversal relationship that is a symptomatic expression of the severe pathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

The presence in the child's symptom display of the three characteristic diagnostic indicators (i.e., the «psychological fingerprints») of the child's psychological influence and control by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent represents sufficient and definitive clinical evidence that the symptomatic child - initiated cut - off of the child's relationship with the other parent is the direct result of the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (i.e., the allied and supposedly «favored» parent), who is using the child in a role - reversal relationship as a «regulatory other» (see my blog essay: Parental Alienation as Child Abuse: The Regulating Other) for the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

This is the role - reversal relationship.

The possible sexual abuse origins of this «source code» may be at the generational level of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, representing the possible childhood sexual abuse victimization of this parent, or the «source code» may have entered the trans - generational transmission of attachment patterns a generation earlier, with the parent of the current narcissistic / (borderline) parent whose distorted parenting practices then produced the narcissistic / (borderline) personality organization of the current parent, so that this particular «phrase» of the «source code» (i.e., a role - reversal relationship in which the parent uses the child to meet the emotional and psychological needs of the parent) is being passed on inter-generationally through several generations following the incest victimization trauma.

The child - initiated cut - off of the child's relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent as a consequence of the distorted pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent in which the child is being used by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent in a role - reversal relationship to meet the emotional and psychological needs of the personality disordered parent (i.e., «parental alienation») may represent a trans - generational iteration of child sexual abuse victimization that occurred a generation (or two) prior to the current child, but that is continuing to severely distort parent - child relationships through the distorted parenting practices of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent (whose own disordered personalty organization likewise represents the impact of the prior sexual abuse victimization).

(In the scientific literature, this loss of authenticity is called a «role - reversal» relationship in which the child is being used as a «regulatory object» by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to regulate the emotional and psychological state of this parent.)

Childress Comment: Highly recommended regarding the nature of role - reversal parent - child relationships.

When the three diagnostic indicators of attachment - based «parental alienation» (i.e., of a cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent involving the role - reversal use of the child as a regulatory object for the parent's emotional and psychological state) are present, if the psychologist does not make an accurate diagnosis of the pathology then the «reasonably foreseeable consequences» would be the child's loss of a developmentally healthy and bonded relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent, and the developmental pathology imposed on the child by the pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / borderline parent.

When a parent uses a child to meet the parent's needs, this is called a «role - reversal» relationship (note: there are several different types of role - reversal relationships).

In a role - reversal relationship, the child is used by the parent to meet the needs of the parent.

Therapy for attachment - based «parental alienation» REQUIRES the child's protective separation from the pathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent during the active phase of treatment and recovery stabilization from the role - reversal relationship with the narcissistic / (borderline) parent in which the child is being used as a «regulatory object» by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent for the psychopathology of this parent.

Role - reversal relationships are associated with the «disorganized» category of attachment (Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman, & Parsons, 1999), which is considered to be the most severely pathological attachment category, and disorganized attachment, in turn, is associated with the development of borderline personality processes (Beck, 2004).

The child enters a role - reversal relationship to become a «regulatory other» for the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's emotional state.

In response to the interpersonal rejection inherent to the divorce (i.e., narcissistic injury and abandonment), the narcissistic / (borderline) parent engages the child in a role - reversal relationship as a «regulatory other» in order to regulate the intense anxiety experienced by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent associated with the threatened collapse of the narcissistic defense against the experience of primal inadequacy and a tremendous fear of abandonment.

In the psychopathology of the «role - reversal» relationship, the child acts as the «regulatory other» for the parent.

This is called a «role - reversal» relationship in which the child is being used as a «regulatory other» for the parent, instead of a healthy and developmentally vital parent - child relationship in which the child is using the parent as «regulatory other.»

In the Journal of Emotional Abuse, Kerig discusses the problematic development created by role - reversal relationships involving parent - child boundary violations such as the parent using the child as a «regulatory other» for the parent's emotional state,

The presence of an enmeshed relationship with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent strongly suggests a role - reversal relationship in which the child is being used as a «regulatory object» to regulate the emotional and psychological state of the parent.

As a manifestation of the internal working models of relationship contained within the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's attachment networks, the narcissistic / (borderline) parent forms a role - reversal relationship with the child, using the child as a «regulatory other» for the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's own emotional regulation.

The storyline follows the working relationship of Ben Whittaker, a 70 - year - old retired widower, and Jules Ostin, a young, successful founder of an e-commerce site, as they learn to mind the generation gap and role reversals between them.