From the Publisher:
The first section examines the two aspects of stress, psychosocial and biological, and their interactions, covering the effect of stress on the developing brain, the neuroendocrine substrate of stress reactions psychosomatic reactions and psychological symptom formation. The second section examines specific stressors encountered at each developmental stage, age-typical methods of responding to stress and special stress pitfalls. The third considers specific stressors such as divorce, parental death or illness, abuse, poverty, discrimination and social violence. Finally, the fourth section examines risk and protective factors in assessment of stress as a basis for prevention and treatment. With a wealth of actual case material, it is solidly documented, amply illustrated with tables and figures, yet sufficiently non-technical in presentation to appeal to the widest possible readership.
From the Inside Flap:
Childhood Stress It is surprising in a society so confident of its extraordinary concern for the health and well-being of its young, that so little attention is paid to the often devastating effects of stress on children and adolescents. While both the popular and professional media have been abuzz, over the past decade, with news about stress in adults, it is only recently that stress in childhood and adolescence has begun to receive the attention it deserves. Childhood Stress, therefore, represents a publishing event of the first order for all child helping professionals. It offers the most complete and timely coverage of the major stressors among children and adolescents and their role in a variety of psychological, physical, developmental, and educational problems. As a consequence, it also has the further virtue of being the only inter-professional guide available useful to psychologists and social workers, physicians, nurses, educators and all childcare professionals. It can even be an invaluable resource for attorneys and providers of pastoral care. Childhood Stress is divided into four sections, the first section covering the biological and psychosocial aspects of stress and their interactions. The effects of stress on the developing brain, the neuroendocrine substrate of stress reactions, and psychosomatic reactions to stress are discussed, as are psychological coping and symptom formation. The second section is devoted entirely to a detailed examination of stressors typically encountered at various developmental stages, as well as age-typical methods for coping with them. Section three goes into greater depth focusing on a number of specific stressors—including divorce, death or illness of a parent, abuse, poverty, social violence, and illness, injury and disability. The fourth section considers risk and protective factors in the assessment of stress as a basis for prevention and treatment. Extremely well-referenced and crafted for use by all helping professionals, Childhood Stress is an important contribution that is destined to become the standard to which all subsequent books will aspire. A "must read" for child psychiatrists, child psychologists, nurses, and social workers who treat children, it is also an important reference for other pediatric health professionals, educators, and pastoral caregivers.
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