Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Why a field guide?
3. Healthy child and family development
4. Bias and family forensic practice
5. The motives that yield destructive family dynamics
6. The professional's humility, limitations, and role within the system
7. Triangulation
8. The Chameleon child
9. The Polarized child
10. Enmeshment
11. Adultification
12. Parentification
13. Infantilization and the helicopter parent
14. Estrangement or justified rejection
15. Alienation
16. The Language of Experts
17. Remedies
18. Where metaphors fail
19. Resources