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From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution . The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.Author Notes
E. Mark Cummings, PhD , is Professor and Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on relations between family processes and child development. Dr. Cummings has served as Associate Editor of Child Development and on the editorial boards of numerous other journals.
Patrick T. Davies, PhD , is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Clinical and Social Sciences at the University of Rochester. Like Dr. Cummings, Dr. Davies also studies relations between family processes and child development. He is Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology .Reviews 1
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With this volume, psychologists Cummings (Univ. of Notre Dame) and Davies (Univ. of Rochester) continue a discussion (begun in Children and Marital Conflict, 1994) on the impact of marital conflict on child development. Here they present evidence of the links between marital conflict and other family processes that affect child adjustment. Using a family-systems theoretical framework that focuses on the child and parental perceptions of emotional security in the interparental subsystem, the authors view marital-conflict characteristics as risk factors that affect numerous biopsychological processes and may result in a range of negative outcomes. (The relative impact of the risk factors is mediated by factors such as the child's gender, temperament, and developmental level and by parental psychological adjustment and various sociocultural and familial characteristics.) This approach permits Cummings and Davies to ask why some children in high-conflict homes develop severe psychopathology whereas others appear to be more resilient and have better outcomes. Appendixes present detailed descriptions of the observational coding systems and assessments of security for both parents and children. Those who own the earlier title will want to add this new volume, which will be useful in both the study and the practice of family psychology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. R. B. Stewart Jr. Oakland University
Table of Contents
| Part I New Directions in the Study of Children and Marital Conflict | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1 Marital Conflict and Risky Families | p. 5 |
| Chapter 2 The Emergence of Process-Oriented Approaches: Emotional Security Theory | p. 22 |
| Part II Child Effects of Exposure to Marital Conflict | p. 53 |
| Chapter 3 Identifying Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict | p. 57 |
| Chapter 4 Testing Process-Oriented Models of the Direct Effects of Exposure to Marital Conflict | p. 78 |
| Part III Contextualizing Marital Conflict | p. 97 |
| Chapter 5 The Role of Parenting in the Context of Marital Conflict: Indirect Pathways and Processes | p. 101 |
| Chapter 6 Contextual Vulnerability and Protective Models | p. 125 |
| Chapter 7 Development over Time in Contexts of Marital Conflict | p. 154 |
| Part IV Future Directions | p. 171 |
| Chapter 8 Applications of Findings and Translation Research | p. 173 |
| Chapter 9 Beyond the Marital Dyad: From Bowlby to Political Violence | p. 200 |
| Appendices | p. 227 |
| Appendix A Conflict in the Interparental System (CIS)-Observational Coding | p. 229 |
| Appendix B Security in the Interparental Subsystem (SIS) Scale-Child Report | p. 234 |
| Appendix C Security in the Marital Subsystem-Parent Report (SIMS-PR) Scale | p. 239 |
| Appendix D Advanced Measurement and Research Design Issues for a Process-Oriented Approach | p. 243 |
| References | p. 267 |
| Index | p. 311 |
