Institutional Triangulation
Institutional triangulation occurs when systems position families, staff, professionals, or agencies against each other so accountability becomes diffused. It can make parents appear unreasonable, educators appear individually responsible, and the institution itself disappear from view.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…