Laura G. Sweeney

Models of Psychopathology

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Chapter 1: The Role of Writing in Mental Health Research

Brings together research on different types of writing and distance writing that have been, or need to be, used by mental health professionals. This title also critically evaluates the therapeutic effectiveness of these writing practices, such as automatic writing, programmed writing poetry therapy, diaries, expressive writing and more.

Conclusion: Future of Relational Psychopathology

Chapter 8 provides closing remarks and conclusions about the field of relational psychopathology. In addition, the complexity of defining and diagnosing psychopathology related to the four models is summarized. The implications of how these models and the related outcomes may be measured and operationalized in the context of pathology and resilience are also considered. Finally, the benefits of deadly drama triangle and relational competence theory and what they offer researchers and scholars (i.e., an alternative way to think about pathology going forward) are discussed.

Psychopathology and Self-Regulation: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Intervention

Chapter 7 offers information on providing care for individuals and their family members with a history related to the four models presented in this book. Chapter 7 discusses the implications of practice behavior, assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention based on relational psychopathology as a manifestation of difficulties in self-regulation. Specifically, this chapter focuses on the clinical tasks of assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention from a systems perspective. Several principles of relational competence theory and the deadly drama triangle undergird this discussion.

Parental Alienation Behaviors

Chapter 4 examines an often controversial topic, parental alienation behavior (or commonly described as parental alienation syndrome), and puts forward preliminary evidence for the relational and generational aspects of parental alienating behavior and its possible outcomes. Chapter 4 has four additional aims: (a) to summarize Gardner’s seminal contribution to the parental alienation literature, (b) to explicate recent definitions and characteristics of parental alienation syndrome, (c) to outline the controversies about parental alienation that have accumulated in the literature, and (d) to describe how both relational competence theory and deadly drama triangle can assist clinicians and researchers in understanding antecedents and outcomes of parental alienation behaviors, roles, and processes.

The Deadly Drama Triangle and Relational Competence Theory

Chapter 2 provides overviews of relational competence theory (RCT) and the deadly drama triangle (DT) and conceptually links the deadly DT to other relevant theoretical models associated with RCT. Chapter 2 also deconstructs RCT by providing a comprehensive discussion on the theoretical assumptions about relationships, normative models of RCT, and clinical applications of the theory. Finally, Chap. 2 sets the stage for how RCT and deadly DT can assist clinicians and researchers in understanding the associated generational and relational processes and roles evidenced from parentification, parental alienating behavior, bullying, and Stockholm syndrome.

Criteria and Processes in Paradigm Selection

The purpose of this chapter is to review critically the usefulness of differentiations made in an earlier publication (L’Abate, 2009) that was basic to the Table of Contents for this volume. How does that classification hold up in front of the many paradigms introduced then and now in this volume? To select a particular paradigm over others and make sense of such a bewildering array of paradigms, each claiming an important position in theory-construction, four different criteria will be necessary. Two criteria of abstraction and generality are descriptive. Two processes of equipotentiality and equifinality are explanatory because they integrate various levels of observation and interpretation.

List of Volumes

Brings together research on different types of writing and distance writing that have been, or need to be, used by mental health professionals. This title also critically evaluates the therapeutic effectiveness of these writing practices, such as automatic writing, programmed writing poetry therapy, diaries, expressive writing and more.

Chapter 10: Epilogue: Distance Writing as the Preferred Medium of Help and Healing in the 21st Century

Brings together research on different types of writing and distance writing that have been, or need to be, used by mental health professionals. This title also critically evaluates the therapeutic effectiveness of these writing practices, such as automatic writing, programmed writing poetry therapy, diaries, expressive writing and more.