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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807018503321

Autore

Garber Benjamin

Titolo

The Family Law Professional's Field Guide to High-Conflict Litigation : Dynamics, Not Diagnoses / / Benjamin Garber and Chris Mulchay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : ABA Publishing, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-63905-011-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages)

Disciplina

346.73/015

Soggetti

Domestic relations - United States - Psychological aspects

Forensic psychology - United States

Litigants - Family relationships - United States - Psychology

Parent and child - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedications -- Contents -- SECTION I Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Why a Field Guide? -- Fractals and Nested Hierarchies -- Complexity and Coherence -- Power and Control -- Dynamics -- Why Does This Matter? -- Chapter 3 Healthy Child and Family Development -- Defining Family Systems -- What Is a Healthy Family System? -- Development Is Contextually Driven -- Internal Working Models -- Cause and Effect Merge Once Again -- IWMs Are Shaped from Both within and outside the Relationship -- Development Is a Gradual Progression from Undifferentiated to Optimal Differentiation and Back Again -- Resilience -- Identity Is How the Individual Balances Need Fulfillment from within and Connectedness Without -- When Family Systems Fail -- The Judicial System -- Chapter 4 Bias and Family Forensic Practice -- Bias, Attitudes, Stereotypes, and Prejudice -- Bias Drives Black-and-White Thinking -- Definitions, Prototypes, and Biases -- Bias and Resist/Refuse Dynamics -- Parents Have Biases, Too -- Chapter 5 The Motives That Yield Destructive Family Dynamics -- Looking under the Hood -- Relationships Happen at the Nexus of Needs -- The Child's Need for Affiliation -- Refueling -- Adults Need



to Be Refueled, Too -- The Parent's Need to Win -- The Grieving Parent -- Evolution and Self-Blame -- Structure Minimizes Anxiety -- Chapter 6 The Professional's Humility, Limitations, and Role within the System -- Roles within Adversarial Systems -- When Families Enlist Professional Helpers -- Science, Not Séance -- Stay in Your Lane -- SECTION II Taxonomy: The Dynamics of the Conflicted Family System -- Chapter 7 Triangulation -- Healthy Triangulation? -- Pathological Triangulation -- When Children Are Triangulated within the Family System -- Children as Agents of Triangulation? -- Does Adult Intent Matter?.

The Developmental Impact of Triangulation -- Institutionalized Efforts to Prevent Triangulation -- Chapter 8 The Chameleon Child -- Adaptation Means Survival -- Dynamics, Not Diagnoses -- The Chameleon Effect -- The Chameleon Effect and High-Conflict Divorce -- The Chameleon Child and Custody Determinations -- Chapter 9 The Polarized Child -- Not All Molehills Are Mountains -- Polarized Fractals? -- Enumerating Relationship Pressures and Practical Hurdles -- Chapter 10 Enmeshment -- A Developmental Perspective -- It's Impossible to Understand Enmeshment outside of Its Developmental Context -- Even Parents Need to Be Refueled -- The Relationship Ecology of Parent-Child Enmeshment -- Developmental Decalage -- Intergenerational Enmeshment? -- Enmeshment, Estrangement, and Alienation? -- Is This Enmeshment, Estrangement, or Alienation? -- Chapter 11 Adultification -- Many and Varied Meanings -- Parenting Styles? -- Adultification Is More Common in Certain Relationship Ecologies -- Who Gets Adultified? -- Healthy Adultification? -- Adultification Co-Occurs with Other Destructive Dynamics -- Chapter 12 Parentification -- Definitions (Again) -- Children as Their Siblings' Caregivers? -- Parentification Occurs across Relationship Ecologies -- Developmental Outcomes -- Chapter 13 Infantilization and the Helicopter Parent -- Definitions (One More Time) -- Who Infantilizes? -- Who Is Most Likely to Be Infantilized? -- The Effects on the Child -- Chapter 14 Estrangement or Justified Rejection -- Estrangement Is NOT a Dyadic Dynamic -- What Can Parent A Do? -- Estrangement and Enmeshment Are Opposites -- Confusing Labels -- Types of Estrangement -- Remedies Require Evaluations of Both Type and Risk -- Chapter 15 Alienation -- A Very Brief History of Alienation in the Context of Family Law -- Alienation Is a Dynamic, Not a Diagnosis -- The Single-Factor Model.

Pieces of the Pie -- Who Alienates? -- What Is the Developmental Impact of Alienation? -- Alienation by Degree? -- Remedies? -- SECTION III At the Intersection Where the Family System Meets the Legal System -- Chapter 16 Ipse Dixit and the Language of Experts -- The Dilemma of Ipse Dixit -- Theories and Conceptual Frameworks Are Not Data -- Peer Review and Sort-of-Kind-of "Peer" Review -- Chapter 17 Remedies -- Ubi Jus, Ibi Remedium -- What Is a Remedy? -- Trial as a Remedy in and of Itself -- The Menu of Family Law Remedies -- Evidence-Based Medicine -- Chapter 18 Where Metaphors Fail -- Etic versus Emic -- How Should You Use This Book? -- On Self-Care -- Chapter 19 Resources -- Types of Parenting and Their Dynamic and Developmental Outcomes across Cultures -- Parenting Capacity Evaluations -- Child Custody Evaluations -- Intimate Partner Violence -- Epistemic Injustice and Bias Risks and Research in Family Court -- Child Abuse -- Infantilization -- Adultification and Parentification -- Intensive "Residential" Treatment Programs -- Alienation Treatment Alternatives -- Additional Alienation Citations of Note -- Integrated Dyadic Assessment -- Evaluation of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Relevant to Determinations of Estrangement -- Factitious Disorder



Imposed on Another and Related Citations -- Index.