role inversion. This is a psychological process in which a child or adolescent is forced to take on roles and areas of responsibility that usually belong to parents and other adult family members. The child becomes a “parent” or “guardian” for his parents or other family members, which disrupts the natural dynamics of family roles. There are 2 types of parentification:
\n 1) Emotional parentification \u2013 the child becomes a psychological support for parents, takes on the functions of support and consolation;
\n2) Instrumental parentification \u2013 the child performs practical tasks that parents should perform. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
role inversion. This is a psychological process in which a child or adolescent is forced to take on roles and areas of responsibility that usually belong to parents and other adult family members. The child becomes a “parent” or “guardian” for his parents or other family members, which disrupts the natural dynamics of family roles. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-12-key-psychological-concepts-in-family-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}