Parental Vigilant Care
Author | : Haim Omer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317230618 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317230612 |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Download or read book Parental Vigilant Care written by Haim Omer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescents. The effective component in vigilant care is not control, but parental presence. Vigilant care is a flexible attitude in which parents shift between levels of open attention, focused attention, and protective action, according to the alarm signals they detect. The author presents a detailed theoretical, empirical, and clinical rationale for the model that deals with potentially problematic parental attitudes or parent-child processes such as overparenting, psychological control, disregard of legitimate personal domains or of the child's need for self-determination, parent-child mutual distancing, and escalation.