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Book SynopsisChildren with incarcerated parents are at risk for a variety of problematic outcomes, yet research has rarely examined protective factors or resilience processes that might mitigate such risk in this population. In this volume, we present findings from fi ve new studies that focus on child- or family-level resilience processes in children with parents currently or recently incarcerated in jail or prison. In the fi rst study, empathic responding is examined as a protective factor against aggressive peer relations for 210 elementary school age children of incarcerated parents. The second study further examines socially aggressive behaviors with peers, with a focus on teasing and bullying, in a sample of 61 children of incarcerated mothers. Emotion regulation is examined as a possible protective factor. The third study contrasts children's placement with maternal grandmothers versus other caregivers in a sample of 138 mothers incarcerated in a medium security state prison. The relation be
Table of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Julie Poehlmann and J. Mark Eddy
II. EMPATHY AS A PROTECTIVE FACTOR FOR CHILDREN WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
Danielle H. Dallaire and Janice L. Zeman
III. TEASING, BULLYING, AND EMOTION REGULATION IN CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED MOTHERS
Barbara J. Myers, Virginia H. Mackintosh, Maria I. Kuznetsova, Geri M. Lotze, Al M. Best, and Neeraja Ravindran
IV. ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONS OF IMPRISONED MOTHERS AS RELATED TO CHILD CONTACT AND THE CAREGIVING ALLIANCE: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF CHILDREN’S PLACEMENT WITH MATERNAL GRANDMOTHERS
Ann Booker Loper and Caitlin Novero Clarke
V. TRIADIC INTERACTIONS IN MOTHER–GRANDMOTHER COPARENTING SYSTEMS FOLLOWING MATERNAL RELEASE FROM JAIL
James P. McHale, Selin Salman, Anne Strozier, and Dawn K. Cecil
VI. A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF A PARENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INCARCERATED PARENTS: PROXIMAL IMPACTS
J. Mark Eddy, Charles R. Martinez Jr., and Bert Burraston
VII. SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Julie Poehlmann
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