PART ONE: THEORY AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES
Parentification - Nancy D Chase
An Overview of Theory, Research and Societal Issues
Cross-Sex and Same-Sex Family Alliances - Deborah Jacobvitz, Shelley Riggs and Elizabeth Johnson
Immediate and Long-Term Effects on Sons and Daughters
Workaholic Children - Bryan E Robinson
One Method of Fulfilling the Parentification Role
Parentification of Siblings of Children with Disability or Chronic Disease - Suzanne Lamorey
Assessing Childhood Parentification - Gregory J Jurkovic, Richard Morrell and Alison Thirkield
Guidelines for Researchers and Clinicians
PART TWO: CLINICAL AND CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES
Object Relations Therapy of Individuals with Narcissistic and Masochistic Parentification Styles - Marolyn Wells and Rebecca Jones
Therapeutic Rituals and Rites of Passage - Helen W Coale
Helping Parentified Children and Their Families
Trauma, Invisibility and Loss - Bruce Lackie
Multiple Metaphors of Parentification
Parentification in the Context of the African American Family - Louis P Anderson
The Archetype of the Parentified Child - Paula M Reeves
A Psychosomatic Presence