Marital Conflict and Children : An Emotional Security Perspective
ISBN: 9781606235195 | 1606235192
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Book
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 1/4/2010
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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, phy... MORE
| New Directions in the Study of Children and Marital Conflict | p. 1 |
| Marital Conflict and Risky Families | p. 5 |
| The Emergence of Process-Oriented Approaches: Emotional Security Theory | p. 22 |
| Child Effects of Exposure to Marital Conflict | p. 53 |
| Identifying Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict | p. 57 |
| Testing Process-Oriented Models of the Direct Effects of Exposure to Marital Conflict | p. 78 |
E. Mark Cummings, PhD, is Professor and Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on relations between family processes and child development. Dr. Cummings has served as Associate Editor of Child Development and on the editorial boards of numerous other journals.
Patrick T. Davies, PhD, is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Clinical and Social Sciences at the University of Rochester. Like Dr. Cummings, Dr. Davies also studies relations between family processes and child development. He is Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology.
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