Parental Vigilant Care A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers

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Synopsis

This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescents. The effective component in vigilant care is not control, but parental presence. Vigilant care is a flexible attitude in which parents shift between levels of open attention, focused attention, and protective action, according to the alarm signals they detect. The author presents a detailed theoretical, empirical, and clinical rationale for the model that deals with potentially problematic parental attitudes or parent-child processes such as overparenting, psychological control, disregard of legitimate personal domains or of the child's need for self-determination, parent-child mutual distancing, and escalation.

Book details

Author:
Haim Omer
ISBN:
9781317230618
Related ISBNs:
9781315624976, 9781138651043, 9781138651050
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
144
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2021-11-05
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Taylor & Francis 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Psychology, Teens