Author:Alexander, Pamela C
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Intergenerational Cycles of Trauma and Violence: An Attachment and Family Systems Perspective
Price: $23.98
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: November 2014
Seller ID: 271839
ISBN: 0393707180
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
She proposes that an increased risk for abusive behavior or revictimization, as a function of one's own experiences of abuse or trauma in childhood, can best be understood through the complementary lenses of attachment theory (focusing on the relationship between the child and the caregiver) and family systems theory (focusing on the larger context of this relationship). That is, what a child acquires from her relationship with a caregiver is not simply a reflection of what she has "learned" from experiencing or witnessing abuse. Rather, it emerges from the child's felt experience of the...
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