Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind (The Vulnerable Child: Studies in Social Issues and Child Psychoanalysis)

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more effective parents. Discussion of neurobiological correlates of “reflective parenting,” and of similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other settings, places the clinical technique in the context of other work directed at helping parents help their children to grow up emotionally healthy. Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and the techniques it developed to help parents become more effective in their parenting, by learning how to understand and reflect on their childrens' emotional states. Discussion of neurobiological correlates of "reflective parenting," and of similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other settings, places the clinical technique in the context of other work directed to assist parents in helping their children develop into emotionally healthy adults. Book jacket Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more effective parents. Discussion of neurobiological correlates of reflective parenting, and of similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other settings, places the clinical technique in the context of other work directed at helping parents help their children to grow up emotionally healthy Preface / M. Hossein Etezady Introduction: the seeds of an idea / Regina Pally and Paulene Popek Reflective parenting and the origins of the center for reflective parenting / Regina Pally and Paulene Popek Why and how CRP began / Regina Pally and Paulene Popek CRP direct services and training programs / Regina Pally and Paulene Popek Working with different clinical populations / Regina Pally and Paulene Popek Neurobiology of parenting / Regina Pally Other programs similar to CRP / Regina Pally Finding the good grandmother / Leon Hoffman Bibliography Index Authors and editors. Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting addresses the reasons for focusing on understanding a child's emotional world as a way of becoming a more effective parent. The book also addresses techniques for assisting parents to accomplish this understanding.