Parenting Against the Odds

ISBN-13: 9783639091557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str.

Johanna Herwitz

Opis

This book examines individual strengths among adolescent mothers within the framework of Attachment Theory. The author extends attachment theory to examine how it informs our understanding of resiliency to negative childhood events among adolescent mothers. She provides a theoretical and research paradigm for understanding the role that psychological mindedness plays in resiliency. Begining with a review of the theoretical and empirical work on infant caregiver attachment relationships, the author then provides empirical and theoretical reviews of psychological development in adolescence, focusing on the develop­ment of psychological mindedness and the experience of parenthood. In addition, empirical and theoretical work on the resilient child are summarized, conceptual and methodological weaknesses are addressed in relation to the aims of this study, and pathways to resiliency are proposed. Finally, a method for examining the relation between psychological mindedness, experiencing negative childhood events, and security of infant attachment is described, tested and discussed.

O autorze

Johanna Semple Herwitz is a New York State licensed clinical
psychologist. She lives and works in New York City, where she
has a private practice using an integrative approach to treating
adults with anxiety and depression. She is a RIE-trained
specialist in parent-infant relationships, and she holds classes
for parents and their babies.