Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the
well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has
identified particular challenges in families with disordered
parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in
mental health promotion and prevention programs, and they may be
especially resistant to intervention. The Effects of Parental
Dysfunction on Children explores the current level of knowledge
regarding the processes by which a number of parental disorders
influence the developmental outcomes of children.
Renowned scientist-practitioners from the United States, Canada,
and Australia contributed ten chapters to this volume addressing
the topic of the effects of parental behavioral and emotional
disorders on children. The major topics covered by this book focus
on children growing up in families in which the parents suffer from
major psychosocial difficulties, including schizophrenia,
depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, anxiety disorders,
intellectual disabilities, and antisocial personality
disorder.
This volume is divided into two sections:
- Scholarly descriptions of developmental models for
conceptualizing the various risk and protective factors (genetic,
biological, and environmental) that play critical roles in the
transmission of the effects of parental disorder to the development
of the child; and
- Specific parental disorders and their effects on children in
the family. These chapters cover descriptive psychopathology,
implications for intervention (both treatment and prevention), and
descriptions of intervention procedures.The Effects of Parental
Dysfunction on Children is a valuable resource for clinical child
psychologists, developmental psychologists, and family therapists,
as well as for graduate-level students in child and family
psychology, psychiatry, and social work.
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