Caroline Archer Howe David (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 224 pages. Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practica l handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster pa rents, their children and adolescents. An adopted child may well have suffered a buse, neglect or inconsistent parenting in the past; he or she will certainly ha ve experienced painful separations and losses. These early traumatic experiences , often expressed in emotional and behavioural problems within the family, can c onceal a broad range of subtle alterations to the brain and nervous system of th e developing child. They may become increasingly problematic as the youngster ap proaches the developmental challenges of adolescence. n nDrawing on both firstha nd experience and some of the latest medical research, Caroline Archer presents strategies to help parents deal with their youngsters' troubling behaviour and t o make them feel more comfortable, in what seems to them a hostile world. n nArc her sets out to provide adoptive and foster parents with an understanding of the complex range of difficulties with which their children may struggle as a resul t of their early experience of adversity. By exploring, in very simple ways, the effects of adverse experiences on the child's built-in biological response syst ems, she assists parents to make sense of the frequently perplexing behaviours o f the hurt child within their family. Common situations which she specifically a ddresses include: sleep problems; anger, aggression and violence; lying and stea ling; staying out late and running away; addictive behaviours and self harm; imp ulsiveness and risk-taking; sex; suicide and compulsive eating disorders. n nFol lowing on from First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddle.…