Description
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.
Chapter
Chapter 1 Marital Conflict and Risky Families
Chapter 2 The Emergence
of Process-O
riented Approaches:
Emotional Security Theory
Chapter 3 Identifying Constructive
and Destructive Marital Conflict
Chapter 4 Testing Process-O
riented Models
of the Direct Effects of Exposure
to Marital Conflict
Chapter 5 The Role of Parenting
in the Context of Marital Conflict:
Indirect Pathways and Processes
Chapter 6 Contextual Vulnerability
and Protective Models
Chapter 7 Development over Time
in Contexts of Marital Conflict
Chapter 8 Applications of Findings
and Translational Research
Chapter 9 Beyond the Marital Dyad:
From Bowlby to Political Violence
Appendix AConflict in the Interparental System (CIS)—
Observational Coding
Appendix B Security in the Interparental
Subsystem (SIS) Scale—Child Report
Appendix C Security in the Marital Subsystem—Parent
Report (SIMS-PR) Scale