As the therapist contains the parent's affect and the parent learns to identify repressed events that trigger maladaptive parenting behaviors, parents learn to recognize the he event as linked to past relationships, allowing space to respond differently in the current relationship with their child begins to emotionally connect with the child (Dayton and Malone, 2015). Coates (2012) states that once the parent understands how the child triggers their unresolved traumatic memories of the past, they are able to overcome their unresolved trauma and then end the intergenerational transfer of the unresolved trauma to the next.