Working With Parents of Aggressive Children: A Practitioner's Guide

This second edition of a parenting guide provides new scholarship on children's emotional socialization and childhood aggression, offers parenting interventions that promote equity, diversity, and inclusion, and shows mental health providers how to discuss setting reasonable expectations and goals, promoting parent self-care, and promoting family structure. It offers compelling, realistic examples that reflect the diversity of families and examines the opportunities and challenges of working with families from diverse backgrounds.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 333 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2023
Publisher: American Psychological Association

Healthy parent-child relationships are essential for children's emotional and social development, and parenting interventions can play a crucial role in promoting these relationships. In this second edition of the book, new scholarship in children's emotional socialization and childhood aggression is presented, along with parenting interventions developed through the lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The book emphasizes the importance of parents' capacity to accept, contain, and lead their children, as well as their goals, health, and family structure. It provides mental health providers with a comprehensive guide to discussing setting reasonable expectations and goals that are attainable through therapy, promoting parent self-care, and promoting family structure. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, the authors explain how clinicians can tailor their work to the unique needs of each family. They offer compelling, realistic examples that accurately reflect the range of diversity that exists among parents and families, and examine the opportunities and challenges that can arise when working with families from diverse backgrounds.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433839139
Edition number: 2 Revised edition