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For example, the "Chief Enabler" (the main enabler in the family) will often turn a blind eye to the addict's drug/alcohol use as this allows for the enabler to continue to play the victim and/or martyr role while allowing the addict to continue his/her own destructive behavior. Therefore, "the behavior of each reinforces and maintains the ...
Identified patient (IP) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. It describes one family member in a dysfunctional family who is used as an expression of the family's authentic inner conflicts. As a family system is dynamic, the overt symptoms of an identified patient draw attention away from the "elephants in the living room ...
The Golden Child (also known as the Hero or Superkid [12]): a child who becomes a high achiever or overachiever outside the family (e.g., in academics or athletics) as a means of escaping the dysfunctional family environment, defining themselves independently of their role in the dysfunctional family, currying favor with parents, or shielding ...
According to this hypothesis, by being enmeshed in parental needs, trapped in a discrepant role function, [2] a child may lose their capacity for self-direction; [3] their own distinctiveness, under the weight of "psychic incest"; [4] and, if family pressures increase, may end up becoming the identified patient or family scapegoat. [5]
The toll taken on the family from the father's lies, denial and guilt and the mother's enabling weakness leads to a broken home. He finds a uniformly excellent cast and especially likes Matthew Laborteaux "the 15-year-old boy who is most affected by, yet least forgiving, of his father's behavior."
Ackerman stated "we observe certain constellations of family interactions which we have epitomized as the pattern of family interdependence, roles those of destroyer or persecutor, the victim of the scapegoating attack, and the family healer or the family doctor." Ackerman also recognized the pattern of attack, defense, and counterattack, as ...
The scapegoat theory of intergroup conflict provides an explanation for the correlation between times of relative economic despair and increases in prejudice and violence toward outgroups. [11] Studies of anti-black violence ( racist violence) in the southern United States between 1882 and 1930 show a correlation between poor economic ...
Scapegoat: Crisis manager blames some person or group outside of the organization for the crisis. Diminish crisis response strategies: Excuse: Crisis manager minimizes organizational responsibility by denying intent to do harm and/or claiming inability to control the events that triggered the crisis.