
Sometimes a word is not just a word. It is a mirror of an era. Recently, while chatting with my grandmother, I used an expression we use frequently in daily life. She looked at me, smiled, and asked, “What does that mean?” At that moment I realized that even though we speak the same language, we are not living by the same words. In the past, our elders taught us words we did not know. Now the roles seem to have reversed. They are trying to learn the meanings of new words from us. “Story,” “cring
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Parentification is a disrupted family interaction pattern in which a child assumes roles and responsibilities inappropriate for their developmental level and age in an attempt to meet the physical or emotional needs of their parents. In psychological and family systems literature, this concept, also known as role reversal, dissolution of intergenerational boundaries, or overburdened child, was first defined by Minuchin and colleagues under the term parent-child. 【1】 Later, representatives of con
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