Parental Stress and Early Child Development

Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes

Kirby Deater-Deckard editor Robin Panneton editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:27th May '17

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This book examines the complex impact of parenting stress and the effects of its transmission on young children’s development and well-being (e.g., emotion self-regulation; executive functioning; maltreatment; future parenting practices). It analyzes current findings on acute and chronic psychological and socioeconomic stressors affecting parents, including those associated with poverty and cultural disparities, pregnancy and motherhood, and caring for children with developmental disabilities. Contributors explore how parental stress affects cognitive, affective, behavioral, and neurological development in children while pinpointing core adaptation, resilience, and coping skills parents need to reduce abusive and other negative behaviors and promote optimal outcomes in their children. These nuanced bidirectional perspectives on parent/child dynamics aim to inform clinical strategies and future research targeting parental stress and its cyclical impact on subsequent generations.

 Included in the coverage:

  • Parental stress and child temperament.
  • How social structure and culture shape parental strain and the well-being of parents and children. 
  • The stress of parenting children with developmental disabilities.
  • Consequences and mechanisms of child maltreatment and the implications for parenting.
  • How being mothered affects the development of mothering.
  • Prenatal maternal stress and psychobiological development during childhood.

Parenting Stress and Early Child Development is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early childhood development, developmental psychology, pediatrics, family studies, and developmental neuroscience.

“This book is of high interest to neonatologists, pediatricians, psychologists and other health providers to children. The authors review the stress of parents with a child with developmental disabilities and socio-economic causes.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 15 (2), December, 2017)

“The book discusses the effects of parental stress on early child development, explores parenting children with disabilities, and addresses sources of stress and ways to manage it. … Written by experts in the field, this book explores the sources of parental stress, consequences of parental stress, and ideas for managing the stress. It is great reading for clinicians and graduate students working with children and families.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Book Reviews, August, 2017)

ISBN: 9783319553740

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 799g

316 pages

1st ed. 2017