Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781606235195 Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc. Publication date: 01/04/2010 Series: The Guilford Series on Social and Emotional Development Series Pages: 320 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) Age Range: 5 - 17 Years From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.