Bøger i Guilford Series on Social and Emotional Development serien

Provides a much-needed bridge between disparate bodies of research, examining the specific processes through which children internalize the lessons learned in social contexts.

This book explores the development of emotional competence in school age children and young adolescents. Saarni examines the formation of eight key emotional skills and explores why and what happens when development is delayed.

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.