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The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children
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- Robert J McMahon
- Springer
- Hardcover
- 9780306472527
- 10.26 X 6.44 X 0.85 inches
- 1.5 pounds
- Psychology > Psychotherapy - Couples & Family
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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.Author Bio
Robert J. McMahon joined the History Department in Fall 2005. He previously taught at the University of Florida (1982-2005) and has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia and University College Dublin. A specialist in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Professor McMahon has a joint appointment with the Mershon Center.
He is the author of several books, including
- Colonialism and Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945-49 (1981);
- The Cold War on the Periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan (1994); and
- The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II (1999).
- In 2000, McMahon served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Source: The Ohio State University
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