Family: The Support System that Keeps on Killing

In Chapter 16 there is a mention of "unconditional positive regard". This is something that therapists practice in order to help their client feel more open and safe.
The book gives an example of a father who praises his son when he receives good grades from school, but doesn't when he receives bad grades. I agree with the father that praise should not be given for something bad but I disagree with the disapproval toward the son.
It should be common sense to give children unconditional support in everything they do.
Psychiatrists almost always use a method of reveling hidden or suppressed memories from childhood because they believe it plays a major part in any psychological problems.
Parents are a child's only thing to rely on and please during their early years, if they feel they are failing at their only task of pleasing their parents or feel unloved by the center of their life that might cause a huge scar that carries on into adolescence.
Chapter 16 also talk about Strategic Family Therapy; it gives an example of reverse psychology. A psychologist tells a struggling couple to continue to argue so they can discover how much they love each other and the couple does the exact opposite and stop arguing to prove they don't love each other.
If this is not as obvious to anyone else as it is to me I'll say these two grown people are very childish.
From what I have seen and heard, there are many parents who act like children themselves. They don't like to step forward and be the bigger person when it comes to a problem they have with their children.
This has and will keep on killing children's healthy minds.