Did you ever feel left out, picked over, excluded, or castigated by a member of your own family or by someone close to you? Were you treated more like a stage prop growing up and pushed out like a ...

It is easier to spot scapegoating in others than in ourselves. However, most of us engage in blame-shifting. Consider some ordinary examples. Let us say that we are having difficulties at our ...

Family scapegoats may experience social challenges such as "feeling like they can trust others, feeling like it's safe to be themselves, feeling like they can assert themselves and have that be OK," ...