Helping Children Cope with Stress

The number and intensity of childhood stresses have dramatically increased in the past decade, forcing children to grow up faster. This book reasserts the value of childhood, and provides the information needed to help children deal with life's problems. List of Tables.

Preface.

Stress and Coping in Childhood.

Stress in Two-Parent Families.

Stress in One-Parent Families.

Stress in Multi-Parent Families.

Permanent Separation: Death and Adoption.

Temporary Separation.

Divorce.

Physical and Emotional Abuse.

Neglect.

Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation.

Child Victims of Parental Alcoholism.

Helping Strategies for Nontherapists. "Brenner wrote for child care workers, teachers, and parents as well as for professional therapists. The result is a clear, concise, and easily understood work. Brenner deserves a commAndation for producing a useful, readable, positive contribution to a field still in its infancy." (American Psychological Association) AVIS BRENNER is professor of education emeritus at Lesley College, where she established the Child and Community Program which trains women to work effectively with children under stress. The number and intensity of childhood stresses have dramatically increased in the past decade. These pressures are forcing children to grow up faster, and the result is the erosion of childhood. Too many children accept violence and pain as part of their everyday lives, an attitude which diminishes their self-worth as well as their ability to care for others.In Helping Children Cope with Stress, Avis Brenner provides parents, teachers, social workers, counselors, nurses, and other with much of the information they need to help children deal with these realities. It is time to recognize that emotionally close relationships with supportive, caring adults can reshape children's broken lives. Avis Brenner points the way toward this goal with this easy-to-follow, remarkably accessible book that reasserts the value of childhood. "Brenner wrote for child care workers, teachers and parents as well as for professional therapists. The result is a clear, concise, and easily understood work. Brenner deserves a commAndation for producing a useful, readable, positive contribution to a field still in its infancy."
—American Psychological Association