Author: Rebecca C. Mandeville, MA
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“Invisible Scars”: Recognizing Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) During National Child Abuse Prevention Month
For over two decades, my work has focused on defining and documenting the insidious phenomenon I named ‘Family Scapegoating Abuse’ (FSA)—a systemic process where a child is drafted into the role of the “Identified Patient,” “Black Sheep,” or “Problem Child” to “ground” the unprocessed trauma and anxiety running on the energetic family “grid.”
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Beyond the ‘Identified Patient’: The Structural Reality of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA)
Family Scapegoating Abuse may lead to the creation of the IP in families, but it is certainly not passive. It is instead a dynamic, targeted, active and persistent mechanism of systemic identity overwrite and attempted erasure.
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The 5 Tenets of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA): The Power of Naming the Unseen.
While often confused with Narcissistic Abuse, my 20 years of clinical work, qualitative research, and peer-reviewed (published) quantitative studies have proven that FSA is a unique systemic phenomenon. It is a structural “pressure valve” used by dysfunctional family systems to maintain a false sense of stability, or “homeostasis”.
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Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA): A Summary of Peer-Reviewed Research and Clinical Validation
The field of trauma and family systems theory has reached a critical inflection point, driven by the quantitative evidence emerging on the insidious systemic phenomenon I named Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA). This archive serves to present the key findings from the high-impact peer-reviewed studies co-authored with Dr. Kartheek R. Balapala and his team of research scholars, in particular…
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The Evolution of the FSA Clinical Framework
By Rebecca C. MandevilleFounder, FSA Education & Research To the legacy subscribers of this list: My clinical focus and the architecture of my Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA)™ recovery models, including the upcoming Scapegoat Exit Online Masterclass™, will soon be moving to a secure, dedicated platform. I recently published a foundational clinical piece: Systemic Exoneration and…