As the therapist contains the parent's affection and the parent learns to identify repressed events that trigger maladaptive parenting behaviors, parents are taught to recognize the event as related to past relationships, allowing space to react differently in the current relationship with one's child begins to affectively connect with the child (Dayton & Malone, 2015). Coates (2012) states that once the parent understands how the child triggers unresolved traumatic memories from the past, he or she is able to process the unresolved trauma and thus end the intergenerational transfer of the unresolved trauma to the next.