Auteur : Crittenden, Patricia McKinsey

Maison d'édition : Willan Publishing

Date de publication : 2008

Collation : xv, 381 p. : ill.

ISBN : 9781843924982

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : Part 1 : Growing up
1. Yesterday's children : today's mothers and fathers -- 2. Early childhood : learning to e safe at home -- 3. Going to school : coping with a complex world -- 4. Becoming an adult : leaving and loving -- 5. Remembering the future : the process of mental representation -- 6. How do parents affect children's representations?
Part 2 : Raising children
7. Representation and child-rearing that endangers children -- 8. Distortions of normal child-protective behavior : marginal maltreatment of children -- 9. Distortions of normal child-protective behavior : physical abuse of children -- 10. Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions : distortions that emphasize parental self-comfort -- 11. Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions : the absence of parental protection -- 12. Distortions that substitute erroneous information for accurate information and that misconstrue children as being threatened -- 13. Distortions that substitute deadly delusional information for accurate information misconstruing the child as being the threat
Part 3 : An integrative approach to treatment
14. Why do we need a new theory of treatment? -- 15. Ideas that underlie the dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment -- 16. The dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment -- 17. Assessment relevant to differential treatment -- 18. Functional formulation and the plan for treatment -- 19. Psychological treatment and information processing -- 20. Psychological treatment : three cases -- 21. Improving the safety of children and families

Résumé : This book provides a systematic account of parental behaviour and the means of identifying and addressing inadequate parenting. It is intended for professionals who work with children or adults who were harmed as children, and its central concern is with parents who endanger their children or whose children may endanger themselves or others. Understanding and helping troubled parents to become secure and balanced people is of crucial importance for the parents themselves, for their children and for society at large. This book is a guide to understanding parents as people who have children as opposed to seeing them as existing solely in terms of their ability to fulfill their children's needs.

The book shares equally a respect for theory, empirical science, and social values and applications. It aims to provide a springboard for new lines of research (e.g. around the role of danger in eliciting inadequate parental behavior and the interdependency of parent and child behaviour) as well as a guide for clinicians and professionals who must protect both disturbed individuals and the public to understand their clients/patients better (both parents and children).

Raising Parents will be essential reading for professionals and practitioners in the field, including psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists ands ocial workers as well as those taking courses in attachment and psychopathology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology and behavioural courses in psychiatry.

Mots-clés : Rôle parental / Parents et enfants / Enfants maltraités / Thérapie familiale / Condition de parents / Parents - Psychologie

Cote : BF 723 C935r 2008