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This book provides expert guidance for caregivers who struggle with parenting because of adversity in their own lives.
Sommario
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Balanced Parenting: The Secret to Raising Resilient Children
Chapter 2. ACEs and PACEs: How Adverse and Protective Experiences Affect You and Your Child
Chapter 3. Babies and Toddlers: Balancing Safety and Exploration
Chapter 4. Early Childhood: Balancing Control and Choice
Chapter 5. Middle Childhood: Balancing Limits and Independence
Chapter 6. Tweens and Young Teens: Balancing Boundaries and Autonomy
Chapter 7: Older Teens and Young Adults: Balancing Letting Go and Staying Involved
Chapter 8. Becoming a Resilient Parent: It’s All About Balance!
References
Index
About the Authors
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Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD, is a regents professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Center for Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University, where she directs the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA), an NIH-funded center addressing the effects of early life experience on health and development. She co-chaired the Oklahoma Legislative Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care. She has published numerous scientific articles on the effects of adversity on children and families, on risk-taking in adolescents, and on the effects of nutrition and hormone therapy on quality of life and cognition in postmenopausal women. She is coauthor with Amanda Sheffield Morris of
Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective.Amanda Sheffield Morris, PhD, is a regents professor and the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in the department of psychology at Oklahoma State University. She was a coinvestigator on the multi-site NIH-funded Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and is a principal investigator on a similar study of infant development, the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study. Dr. Morris has authored numerous articles and chapters on child and adolescent development and the neuroscience of emotion regulation and parenting. She is coeditor of two books,
Authoritative Parenting: Synthesizing Nurturance and Discipline for Optimal Child Development, and
The Cambridge Handbook of Parenting: Interdisciplinary Research and Application. With Jennifer Hays-Grudo, she is coauthor of
Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective.
Riassunto
Parenting doesn’t always come naturally. This book provides expert guidance for caregivers who struggle with parenting because of adversity in their own lives, or simply because they are raising kids in an increasingly stressful world.
