Tag: family scapegoat abuse research
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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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Critical Research Findings That Affirm the Reality of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA) Survivors
The field of trauma and family systems theory has reached a critical inflection point, which has in part been driven by the quantitative evidence emerging on the insidious systemic phenomenon I named Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA). This post serves to consolidate and present the key findings from FSA research studies to date conducted by Family…