ABSTRACT
Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as a consequence, sometimes endanger their children either through maltreatment or through the effects of parental psychiatric disorder.
Raising Parents explains how that happens and clusters parents in terms of the psychological processes that result in maladaptive childrearing. The book then delineates DMM Integrative Treatment in terms of assessment, formulation, and treatment. New formulations are offered for problems that have resisted treatment and cases demonstrate how the ideas can be applied in real treatment settings. The book closes with 10 suggestions for improving professionals’ responses to troubled families and endangered children.
This edition of Raising Parents introduces DMM Integrative Treatment and demonstrates how to use it with vulnerable families. DMM Integrative Treatment is an interpersonal process and this book will be essential reading for clinicians from all disciplines, including psychiatry and psychology, social work, nursing and all types of psychotherapy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |25 pages
Yesterday's children
chapter |11 pages
Cherishing parents
chapter |12 pages
A primer of DMM theory: twelve crucial constructs
part |61 pages
Growing up
chapter |19 pages
Early childhood: learning to be safe at home
chapter |23 pages
Going to school: coping with a complex world
chapter |17 pages
Becoming an adult: loving and leaving
part |42 pages
Information processing
chapter |15 pages
Remembering the future: the process of mental representation
chapter |13 pages
How do parents affect children's representations?
chapter |12 pages
Representation and childrearing that endangers children
part |91 pages
Parents' dispositional representations
chapter |16 pages
Cluster 3 – distortions of perception: seeing yourself in your child
chapter |15 pages
Cluster 4 – obscured perceptions: the disappearing child
part |23 pages
An integrative approach to treatment