Parenting Stress

by Kirby Deater-Deckard

Overview

All parents experience stress as they attempt to meet the challenges of caring for their children. This comprehensive book examines the causes and consequences of parenting distress, drawing on a wide array of findings in current empirical research. Kirby Deater-Deckard explores normal and pathological parenting stress, the influences of parents on their children as well as children on their parents, and the effects of biological and environmental factors.
Beginning with an overview of theories of stress and coping, Deater-Deckard goes on to describe how parenting stress is linked with problems in adult and child health (emotional problems, developmental disorders, illness); parental behaviors (warmth, harsh discipline); and factors outside the family (marital quality, work roles, cultural influences). The book concludes with a useful review of coping strategies and interventions that have been demonstrated to alleviate parenting stress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300133936
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Series:	Current Perspectives in Psychology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Kirby Deater-Deckard is associate professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon. He has published extensively in the fields of child development, family psychology, and developmental psychology.

Table of Contents

	Series Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
Chapter 1	Hello Baby, Hello Stress: Introduction and Overview	1
Chapter 2	Parenting Stress and the Parent	27
Chapter 3	Parenting Stress and the Child	55
Chapter 4	Parenting Behavior and the Parent-Child Relationship	74
Chapter 5	Parent and Child Effects	95
Chapter 6	Family, Culture, Community	115
Chapter 7	Coping and Intervention	139
Appendix	Selected Studies	165
	References	167
	Index	202

Editorial Reviews

"Deater-Deckard avoids simplistic explanations of stress that emphasize either nature or nurture. And, he goes beyond the nonsurprising findings about stress in parenting to the surprising and provocative ones."—Kathleen McCartney, Harvard University

"Parenting Stress provides excellent suggestions and guidance for how individuals can reduce parenting stress, based on sound and completely up-to-date empirical research."—Joan Grusec, University of Toronto

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