Table of Contents

Contents

• About the Author
• Contributor
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Social Construction of Child Abuse
• Overview of Child Abuse Research
• The Effects of Abuse on Children
• Characteristics of Abusive Families
• Social and Environmental Factors Associated with Child Abuse
• The Child Welfare System
• Part I: Conceptual Background
• Chapter 1. The Importance of Patterns
• Family Patterns Reproduced in the Child
• Individual Patterns Reproduced in the Family
• The Case of Sexual Abuse
• Patterns Changed for Within
• Generic Solutions Fail
• Chapter 2. Patterns in the Mind
• Constant Imagination
• Purposes of Imagination
• How Imagination Is Revealed
• How Imagination Is Suppressed
• The Effects of Punishment
• Early Memories As Road Maps
• Figures in a Landscape
• Complexes
• Autonomy of Figures
• Chapter 3. A Systemic View of the Psyche
• Circular Thinking
• Projective Identification
• Identity and the Quest to Be Oneself
• When, Not Whether
• Assessment Hygiene
• Dialogue Between Psychic Figures
• Possession by a Single Figure
• Overgovernance versus Undergovernance
• Misconstruing the Child As a Precursor to Maltreatment
• Part II: General Patterns in Abuse and Neglect
• Chapter 4. Children's Idealization of Bad Parents
• Denial of Disappointment
• The Need for a Parent Who Takes Responsibility
• Blaming Others to Exonerate the Parent
• Splitting
• Parental Accountability
• Self-Blame of Exonerate the Parent
• Chapter 5. “At Least I'm Not As Bad As My Mother (or Father)”
• Focus on the Parent at the Expense of the Child
• Chapter 6. The Avoidance of Personal Closeness
• Fears and Joys of Intimacy
• Excessive Kindness in Service Providers
• Advantages of Cross-Cultural Foster Placements
• Disadvantages of Ideal Foster Placements
• Chapter 7. Seriously Disturbed Patterns
• The Use and Misuse of the Borderline Label
• Fragmentation
• Identity Diffusion
• Boundary Problems
• Rage and Abandonment Fears
• The Maternal Hold
• Impulsivity
• Implications for Service Planning
• Part III: Some Specific Maltreatment Patterns
• Chapter 8. The Sexual Abuse Victim's Mother
• The Perpetrator, the Victim, and the Mother
• The Futility of Blame
• Repeat Involvement with Sex Offenders
• Damage Assessment
• A Good Apology
• Chapter 9. The Sexually Powerful Adolescent Girl
• The Narcissistic Father and the Depressed Mother
• Socializing Girls to Be Depressed
• The Choice Between Sex Appeal and Skills
• The Limitations of Residential Treatment
• Chapter 10. The Disruptive Boy
• The Ineffective Disciplinarian
• Indoctrination into the Abusive Role
• The Legacy of Punishment
• Interpersonal Basis of Self-Control
• Chapter 11. The Absent Parent Returned
• The Child Put On Hold
• Responsibility for the Absence
• Making Amends
• The Child's Point of View
• Part IV: Intervention Patterns
• Chapter 12. Dysfunctional Treatment Relationships
• The Need to Enter Patterns to Change Them
• The Risk of Replication
• Assuming Distasteful Roles
• Chapter 13. Role Ambiguity Among Service Providers
• Structural Clarity
• Clinicians and Attorneys
• Clinicians and Social Workers
• Clinicians and Custodians
• Chapter 14. The Social Worker and the Family
• How the Family Accommodates the Social Worker
• Structural Ambiguity Between Social Worker and Parent
• The Social Worker's Rationale
• Cultural Relativism and the Child Welfare System
• Levels of Parental Fitness and the Social Worker's Approach to the Family
• Voluntary Cases
• Protective Cases
• Custodial Cases
• Chapter 15. The State Social Worker in the Role of Parenting Conscience
• The Ignoring Parent
• The Resigned Parent
• The Rebellious Parent

About the Author

Karson, Michael; Sparks, Elizabeth