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Chapter 1 provides an overview of several seminal constructs and four select models that are discussed throughout the book, Models of Psychopathology: Generational Processes and Relational Roles. Specifically, this chapter focuses on the impact of roles and relational processes that may engender pathology or problematic ways of functioning both intrapersonally and interpersonally. Multiple foci and etiologies are considered in the context of psychopathology. However, the specific focus in Chap. 1 and throughout the book is on relational aspects of human behavior and interaction patterns and processes that may engender a range of outcomes from “normal” to “abnormal.” Toward this end, the four select models (i.e., parentification, parental alienating behavior, bullying, and Stockholm syndrome) described in Chap. 1 and in detail in later chapters can be placed within a borderline area between what is known as normal or functional and what is considered pathological and disordered (e.g., Axis II personality disorders) as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM–IV–TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Chapter 1 concludes with a discussion on the commonalities, differences, and related roles among the four models.
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Hooper, L.M., L’Abate, L., Sweeney, L.G., Gianesini, G., Jankowski, P.J. (2014). Introduction. In: Models of Psychopathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8081-5_1
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