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J. INTAWIWAT
FALL 2015
Midterm Bibliography by: Imani Colclough
Allen, David. "Stop Running Away From Your Family Problems!"
Https://www.psychologytoday.com. Psychology Today, 30 July 2012. Web. 25 Oct. 2015.

David M. Allen M.D. is the author of How Dysfunctional Families Spur Mental Disorders: A
Balanced Approach to Resolve Problems and Reconcile Relationships. Allen is a graduate of
U.C. San Francisco Medical School. He trained in psychiatry at the Los Angeles CountyUniversity of Southern California Medical Center. For sixteen years he has held the position of
emeritus professor of psychiatry and the former director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the
University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis Tennessee. He currently serves as
the associate editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, and he previously held the seat
as treasure of the Association for Research in Personality Disorders.
This is my general internet source: This article is a reflection on a letter sent to the newspaper
advice column Annie's Mailbox; it demonstrates several different approaches on how to deal with
relatives who try to make you miserable. The article begins with a woman who has decided to
no longer communicate with her mother and how other family members criticize her for how she
has handled her mom. She seeks advice from the advice column in which they recommend she
goes to counseling and try communicating differently with her mom. The writer David M. Allen
M.D expands on the topic and explains the process of effective problem solving and how it can
prevent future relationship dynamics.

Allens advice is very explanative on the process to solve family problems, especially in
comparison to the columnist who tells the woman to go to counseling. Allen explains the
importance on hiring the right counselor who can help you discover the nature of the repetitive
interpersonal behavior patterns. He emphasized on selecting a therapist who shows empathy
but will confront you when necessary. The article is informative and thought provoking; it
helped me understand Chris a little more. The goal is to get people to stop procrastinating and
put forth the effort to stop transmitting dysfunctional family patterns from generation to
generation.

The source was helpful because it provided so many thought-provoking views on this one topic.
Allen states that most people who have dysfunctional families feel that they have only three
choices, which are cutting the person off, fighting back, and ignoring the abuse. Then he dispels
these myths by explaining it doesnt help the person cope with the problem. He recommends

changing how you approach family members and individual responsibility for wrongful actions,
and using the aid of a counselor when needed.

Bozer, Braden Anthony. Behaviors and Attitudes Related To Youth Runaway Behaviors
Proquest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, Charleston SC, 2011.

This is a primary source: The purpose of this study was to examine running away behaviors
related to certain attitudes and behaviors during childhood and adolescence. Data for this study
was collected from 206 students that filled out a self-report questionnaire while attending the
University of Texas at Arlington during the fall semester of 2010 or spring semester of 2011. The
main point of this research was to examine attitudes and behaviors that caused participants to
have runaway thoughts or actually run away.
This article relates to my topic because it contains observations on topics of rebellion, family
structure and dysfunction. The findings of this research concluded that depression was the
attributing factor for teens to have thoughts of running away.
This source was helpful because it identifies that parents of youth that ran away were found to
have higher education levels than parents of youth that did not runaway. Family structure was
another major factor adolescents in single, blended or dysfunctional homes were found to be
more at risk to running away. Other attributing factors to running away include sexual, physical
and psychological abuse. Chris was raised in home where both his parents were educated and
financially secure but acts of abuse took place routinely. A major stressor for Chriss
disappearance is believed to be discovering that his dad was previously married and that he had
other children when his mom met him. The only significant difference is that Chris was 22 when
he disappeared from home. Did the problems from his childhood bubble over during the time of
his stressor? One can only speculate. This article is very straightforward and easy to understand
it completed some of my thoughts on the subject.

Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Anchor Books, 1997. Print
Jon Krakauer was born on April 12, 1954 in Brookline, Massachusetts as one of five children.
He developed an interest for mountaineering at an early age with guidance from his father. This
interest for the outdoors continued on to he reached adulthood. He later became a writer
predominantly known for outdoor adventure, especially mountain climbing. Krakauers works
include several best-selling non-fiction novels; Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Where Men Win
Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, and Under the Banner of Heaven.

Into the wild is a biography about the life of Christopher McCandless a highly intellectual young
man who after graduating from college decided to forgo career plans and trek to Alaska. The
book focuses on Christophers journey of two years and the various experiences he kept record
of in his journey up until his body was discovered inside an abandoned bus in Alaska. The
author also shares the stories of other young men who like Chris disappeared into the wilderness.
Into the wild gives some perspective on why Chris decided to cut all ties with his family and
everything he established by letting you in on Chriss family secrets. The Secrets his parents
tried so hard to keep from Chris and sister led to the misery and puzzlement his family felt when
he Chris vanished from their lives.
The source was helpful because it demonstrates the dysfunctional family dynamics that Chris
experienced in his home. Chriss parents fought routinely in front of their two children. When
Chris learned that his parents marriage wasnt ideal he didnt confront them and give them an
opportunity to take responsibility. He kept his feelings to himself and decided to cut his family
off and run off to Alaska. The author of into the wild combined Chriss journal with a lot of
speculative conjecture, so Im relying a lot on other research to give insight on Chriss mental
processes.

Lloyd, Rebecca J. From Dys/Function To Flow: Inception, Perception And Dancing Beyond
Lifes Constraints. Humanistic Psychologist 43.1 (2015): 24-39. Academic Search Complete.
Web.29 Oct 2015

Dr. Rebecca Lloyd's interdisciplinary research intertwines curriculum theory, phenomenology,

pedagogy, motivational psychology, movement consciousness, and exercise physiology. Dr.
Lloyd is an active member of Physical and Health Education Canada, the Council of University
Professors and Researchers, the International Human Science Research Conference and The
Canadian Society for the Study of Education conference, an organization that has nominated her
to be the chair of the PHETE SIG. She is a member of the "Interdisciplinary Research in
Comprehensive School Health" Education Research Unit (ERU) and co-director for the
"Comprehensive School Health" (CSH) teacher education cohort (www.uOttawacomprehensive-school-health.ca).
This is a secondary source: This article examines if an experience of dysfunction or an injury of
circumstance can cultivate a different kind of flow. Lloyd researches the linking in the motile
experience of finding a new footing in life, of embracing emergence, and exploring the
cultivation of flow.
This article relates to my topic because it delves into the outcomes of a person if the onset of
flow ceases. Outward human responses can vary from frustration and anger to sadness and
despair.

This source was helpful because it discusses state of being and how human beings have the
power to overcome their circumstance when they realize their state of possibility. Chris was able
to create a new existence, a new kind of flow that he felt was more purposeful when he let go of
his ties to his family and the life he lived. When dealing with difficult life circumstance one
often wonders how to function in a state of dysfunction. The course of action may not be as
familiar as you are accustom to, and it may make you feel uncertain but an opportunity to
immobilize pain is worth pursuing. This article institutes that when challenges or problems
impede the onset of flow it will be addressed not only with preference given to the mind, but in a
way that merges bodily action with mental awareness. I think this will prove to be useful when I
try to better understand Chris and his course of actions leading up to his trek into the wild.

Rawatlal, N., Kliewer, W., & Pillay, B. J. (2015). Adolescent attachment, family functioning and
depressive symptoms. South African Journal Of Psychiatry, 21(3), 80-85
doi:10.7196/SAJP.8252

N. Rawatlal is the head of Behavioral Medicine Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,

Durban, South Africa.
This is a secondary source: This article is about adolescences and the transitional period in
which they experience biological, emotional, cognitive and social changes. The challenges they
encounter during this time period can increase their risk of developing internalized problems
including subthreshold depression.
I think this relates to my topic because it deals with adolescent-parent attachment, and how
perceived support and family functioning may increase risk for depressive symptoms or may
even reduce such a risk. Data findings were collected from home interviews where participant
were tested. This article contains procedures on how to break the cycle of family dysfunction.
This article relates to my topic because it focuses on how adolescents perceive themselves and
how their parents perceive them.
This source is helpful because it shows a direct correlation between dysfunctional family
interactions and depression amongst adolescents. Chris didnt feel comfortable in his relationship
with either of his two parents and he didnt know how to effectively communicate with them.
Proper communication between parents and adolescents allows teens to control their emotions,
and feel more at ease to confide and seek help and advice within their family and from friends
during times of stress.

Wagner, Nicholas J., W. Roger Mills-Koonce, Michael T. Willoughby, Bharathi Zvara, and
Martha J. Cox. "Parenting and Childrens Representations of Family Predict Disruptive and
Callous-unemotional Behaviors." Developmental Psychology: 935-48. Print.

Nicholas J Wagner is a doctoral candidate in the Developmental Psychology program at UNCChapel Hill. W. Roger Mills-Koonce is a doctoral candidate at The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. Michael Willoughby, PhD is a research public health analyst education and
workforce development. Bharathi Zvara is a research assistant professor at UNC at Chapel Hill
whose interests focus on parenting, parent child relationships and early normative and atypical
development from a biopsychosocial developmental perspective. Martha J Cox is is professor of
psychology at UNC at Chapel Hill. Cox is known for her longitudinal studies of families and
children and for her methodological contributions to the analysis of family interactions.
This a secondary source: Data from a large prospective longitudinal study was used to
investigate the association between observed sensitive parenting in early childhood and
childrens representations of family relationships to determine the influences of early caregiving
experiences on later conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors. Data results
indicated that increased signs of family dysfunction are significantly associated with more
callous-unemotional behavior early as the first grade.
This article relates to my topic because it exposes the effects of family dysfunction in the early
childhood stages. It also reflects on how dysfunctional parents or caregivers justify for callousunemotional behavior by deeming it to be the only alternative to sensitive parenting.
This source was helpful because it focuses on parenting techniques, callous unemotional
behavior and the potential long-term effects on children. Family dysfunction originates and
continues from a variety of attributing factors including: family pride, vulnerability, emotional
distance, tension anger, role reversal, and global pathology. This article provides a lot of insight
on how what Chriss world was like as a child. Growing up in that type of environment can
increase the chance of repeat behavior.