This isolation of the child/adult dyad, occurs when the child clings to the parent with psychological difficulties as a defence against anxiety in the parent/child attachment relationship (Moor & Silvern, 2006). In such circumstances, the child’s exposure to the psychopathology of a parent is more intense than in situations where both parents are involved in caring for the child. In situations where hyper alignment has occurred, the rejection of the other parent, with whom the child has hitherto been seen to have a healthy attachment to, is a by product of the distortion in the relationship between the child and parent they are hyper aligned with (Woodall & Woodall, 2019). In circumstances where a child is seen to hyper align to one parent, the psychopathology in the parent/ child relationship is recognised as an attachment disorder (Mikulincer, Gillath & Shaver, 2002)). Increasing neuro-psychological research in the field of childhood relational trauma, shows that the impact on some children has been shown to be severe, particularly when there is little scope for intervention due to the way in which the child becomes hyper aligned with a parent. The Childhood Experience of Divorce and Separation Increasing neuro- psychological research in the field of childhood relational trauma shows that the impact on some children is severe, particularly when there is little scope for intervention due to the way in which the child becomes hyper aligned with a psychologically compromised parent. The relationship between latent vulnerability in children of divorce andseparation, and the emergence of an eating disorder is recognised as being one of the symptoms of unresolved childhood relational trauma. The presence of parental psychopathology, in the context of divorce or separation, may result in children developing maladaptive behaviours, causing them to pathologically align with one parent and reject the other.
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