Family dynamics can be hard to navigate, even for people who come from emotionally stable and healthy backgrounds. When families function in unhealthy ways, maintaining boundaries and building an ...

Families are meant to be a source of comfort, but not every family feels safe and supportive. If you’ve ever left a family gathering questioning whether you are the problem, you’re not alone in this ...

In many families, there’s a shared but unspoken understanding about who they collectively consider “the problem.” It might be the teenager acting out, the parent with depression or the sibling ...

Family dynamics are complex. It's often difficult to determine — or accept — that your family is dysfunctional or even abusive. Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes ...

Family therapy has emerged as a crucial intervention in treating behavioral health problems. This therapeutic approach views the family as a system where each member’s behavior affects the others. If ...

In some families, someone sees through the façade of perfection and calls attention to the dysfunction. I call this person the “family whistleblower.” They are the one who refuses to ignore or deny ...

Thompson then quickly calls Vance “rude and revisionist” before saying that “the problem doesn’t exist at the level of individual choice, where conservative scolds tend to fixate. Rather, it exists at ...

If you feel like you deal with the same problems in your family repeatedly, but you can never figure out the root of the issue, then it might be time to assess your zodiac sign for clues. According to ...

Many professionals describe situations where a child unjustifiably rejects one parent due to the influence of the other parent as a resist-refuse dynamic, or as a parent-child-contact-problem. Such ...