Parenting and Child Development: Issues and Answers - Softcover

Letourneau, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909976776 ISBN 13: 9781909976771

Publisher: Waterside Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr Nicole Letourneau PhD is a Registered Nurse. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Cumming School of Medicine (Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences), University of Calgary, where she holds the Alberta Children's Hospital Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health and is Director of RESOLVE.

Dr Martha Hart PhD is a researcher at the University of Calgary/Alberta Children's Hospital, past board member of the International Association for the Study of Attachment and founder of The Owen Hart Foundation.

Jason Novick MA is a Research Assistant at the University of Calgary/Alberta Children's Hospital.

Edition details

• Publisher: Waterside Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909976776
• ISBN 13: 9781909976771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Hart Martha, Novick Jason