Parenting and child development : issues and answers / Nicole Letourneau & edited by Martha Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Letourneau, Nicole, author.

Contributor:

Hart, Martha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and child.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

United States of America : Waterside Press, 2020.

Summary:

In recent years, parenting research has demonstrated that toxic stressors such as intimate partner violence, postpartum depression, and substance abuse significantly diminish the quality of mother-child interaction. Moreover, research has shown that childhood is a sensitive period, during which cumulative exposure to adversities inhibits relationship quality, mother-child interaction and subsequent child health and developmental outcomes. Researchers have focused upon identifying populations at risk and interventions to improve related outcomes.Parenting and Child Development: Issues and Answers encompasses a collection of seminal studies by renowned researcher Dr Nicole Letourneau. The book starts with an examination of the mechanisms by which parent-child interaction and child developmental outcomes are diminished among high-risk families. Promising results of peer support and reflective functioning interventions to promote parent-child interaction and healthy child development are then presented. Finally, the book includes studies that investigate the relationship between genetics, parent-child relationships and child behaviour.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781910979969

1910979961

9781910979952

1910979953