The family is the essential human relationship, offering love, support, and trust between partners, vital bonds between siblings, and the care and nurturing of children to ensure a healthy next generation. Ironically, this seminal unit can also be a blueprint for and deadly source of lifelong problems and dysfunctional solutions, with the potential for damage to future roles and relationships.

Models of Psychopathology probes familial roles and intimate relationships as vehicles for-often times but not always-emotional disturbance and damage to child and adult relationships. The four constructs examined here-parentification, parental alienation behavior, bullying, and Stockholm syndrome-are of great importance, frequently appearing in the clinical and empirical literature and news as subjects of heated controversy (especially in the case of parental alienation). A panel of experts, including Luciano L'Abate and Lisa M. Hooper, teams Relational Competence Theory and the deadly drama triangle with affiliated models to reveal key aspects of specific roles, relational, and generational patterns as they contribute to maladaptive and normative behaviors. Among the book's features:

• A combined conceptual-theoretical approach for clearer understanding of key issues.
• Up-to-date chapters exploring parentification, parental alienation, bullying, and Stockholm syndrome.
• A continuum of outcomes, from normative to pathological.
• Therapeutic guidelines for working with clients whose families reflect the models.
• Implications for future research and practice.
• Workbook appendices offering tools for assessment and intervention.

As a source of innovative answers to common family- and relationally-based dilemmas, family therapists, clinical psychologists, and diverse mental health providers will find Models of Psychopathology timely, challenging, and ultimatelyrewarding.

Lisa M. Hooper has published and has done research on the Parentification model, as one variations of the DDT (Hooper, 2007; Hooper at al., 2011a, 2011b).
Luciano L'Abate has been responsible for resuscitating the DDT and for seeing the other models as related and derived in many ways from this model.
Laura G. Sweeney has had a great deal of personal experience with the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). She has published chapters on various paradigms and co-edited one book on Research on Writing Approaches in Mental Health with L'Abate (2011).
Giovanna Gainesini has published in the area of Bullying.
Peter Jankowski, is eminently qualified to write about the Stockholm Syndrome

Zusammenfassung
This book explores current relational models of psychopathology that undergird a great many conflicts and destructive outcomes in family and intimate relationships. These models have similar features and can be considered as a group. They are all: (1) generational; (2) relational; and (3) fundamentally reactive processes stemming from existing psychopathology.

Inhalt

Introduction.- The Deadly Drama Triangle and Relational Competence Theory.- Parentification.- Parental Alienation Behaviors.- Bullying.- Stockholm Syndrome.- Psychopathology and Self-Regulation: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Intervention.- Conclusion.- Future of Relational Psychopathology.- Appendices