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Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development
Jean Mercer
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Description for Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development
Hardback. Defines attachment and related terms, discusses its history, and describes ways in which it can be measured. This book explains developmental change, and the way attachment continues to alter. It will be useful to parents, child care providers, teachers, nurses, social workers, attorneys, therapists, students, and counsellors. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Is maternal instinct fact or fiction? What special challenges do adoptive parents face? What kind of daycare is better, one with many caregivers or one with few? When is separation anxiety normal in a child? Do the experiences of early childhood always influence our ability to build and maintain social relationships as adults? Understanding Attachment helps to answer these questions and many others. This book is perfect for the reader who wants or needs a thorough understanding of attachment, but does not have time to indulge in lengthy study. Parents, child care providers, teachers, nurses, social workers, attorneys, therapists, students, ... Read more
Is maternal instinct fact or fiction? What special challenges do adoptive parents face? What kind of daycare is better, one with many caregivers or one with few? When is separation anxiety normal in a child? Do the experiences of early childhood always influence our ability to build and maintain social relationships as adults? Understanding Attachment helps to answer these questions and many others. This book is perfect for the reader who wants or needs a thorough understanding of attachment, but does not have time to indulge in lengthy study. Parents, child care providers, teachers, nurses, social workers, attorneys, therapists, students, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275982171
SKU
V9780275982171
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About Jean Mercer
Jean Mercer is Professor of Psychology in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Richard Stockton College and President of the New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health. She is also co-author of Attachment Therapy On Trial (Praeger, 2003).
Reviews for Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development
A useful companion to Mercer's Attachment Therapy on Trial, written with Larry Sarner and Linda Rosa with Gerard Costa (CH, Dec'03, 41-2488), this book will be especially valuable for those unfamiliar with attachment theory and research. Mercer provides a concise and jargon-free summary of attachment theory and successfully reveals how developments in the assessment of attachment promoted the evolution of ... Read more