Parental Vigilant Care: A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers

Parental Vigilant Care: A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers

by Haim Omer (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 13 Jun 2017

ISBN 10: 1138651052
ISBN 13: 9781138651050

Author Bio
Haim Omer, PhD, is a professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University, and is the founder and professional director of the Parent-Training Center at the Schneider Children's Hospital in Petah Tivka, Israel. He is the author of several books and is the developer of non-violent resistance as a therapeutic approach to violent, risk-taking, and self-destructive children and adolescents.