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Patricia M. Crittenden (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; illustrated edition edition (1 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843924986
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843924982
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 119,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This book provides a systematic account of parental behaviour and the means of identifying and addressing inadequate parenting. It is intended for professionals who work with children or adults who were harmed as children, and its central concern is with parents who endanger their children or whose children may endanger themselves or others. Understanding and helping troubled parents to become secure and balanced people is of crucial importance for the parents themselves, for their children and for society at large. This book is a guide to understanding parents as people who have children as opposed to seeing them as existing solely in terms of their ability to fulfill their children's needs.

The book shares equally a respect for theory, empirical science, and social values and applications. It aims to provide a springboard for new lines of research (e.g. around the role of danger in eliciting inadequate parental behavior and the interdependency of parent and child behaviour) as well as a guide for clinicians and professionals who must protect both disturbed individuals and the public to understand their clients/patients better (both parents and children).

Raising Parents will be essential reading for professionals and practitioners in the field, including psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists ands ocial workers as well as those taking courses in attachment and psychopathology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology and behavioural courses in psychiatry.

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Patricia M. Crittenden received her Ph.D. as a psychologist in the Social Ecology and Development Program at the University of Virginia. She received a career achievement award for 'Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Child and Family Development' from the European Family Therapy Association in Berlin in 2004 and currently works cross-culturally as a developmental psychopathologist developing theory and a developmentally attuned, life-span set of procedures for assessing self-protective strategies.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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For social workers and other professionals wanting to develop their skills in using attachment theory to help preserve families this book is most highly recommended. Along with Kate Cairns in the UK and Dan Hughes in the USA, Patricia Crittenden provides one of the most useful descriptions of how attachment theory based child welfare interventions can work.
The book contains useful diagrams to put in a diary and many of her ideas appear as timely jewels e.g. her six ideas about improving the safety of children and families on pp.336-338 in relation to 'Baby P'.
If you don't buy into the current UK social work-by-management mentality and you want to know more about using attachment theory to support parents in their parenting this book is for you...
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This book contains much that is helpful and interesting to anyone working within the psyciatric therapy field. However, unfortunately it is not well written, it is difficult and often frustrating to wade through the over wordy text, the second half is better than the first but this might just be (for those who persevere that far) that one becomes used to the verbose style of writing. Some good ideas but not much original thought, what a pity Ms McKinsey Crittenden didn't have a better command of language.
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Raising parents is essential reading for all those students and "clinicians" looking for a comprehensive, coherent, theoretical framework to assist in their "sense-making" of the complex strategies we develop to protect ourselves from dangers - real and perceived. Not only does the book address the complexities of "sense-making" and assessment, it offers a credible approach to formulating treatment.

It is not an easy read, however, it does repay (many times over) the diligent reader who is willing to apply themselves.

I am a educator; the book is on my essential reading list, and is a firm favourite with the students

I look forward to effectiveness studies based on interventions using her model.
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